Reviews
Thempest in a Theapot
I would love to go on a long, long walk with Tuulikki Bartosik, gently humming as the leaves rustle underfoot,...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Songs from Aulejas
This album of 16 a capella songs comes out of a doctoral thesis by Latvian musicologist Asnate Rancâne who studied...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
A Pilgrim's Tale
This year sees the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower setting sail with 102 passengers, mostly religious refugees, for a new...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Supertraditionellt Material
This album is a breaking open of the treasure chest of the Caprice Records archive, curated by Swedish folk musicians...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Detached
For lovers of boundary-pushing music, a flute and a diatonic accordion may not seem an immediately thrilling prospect. Here, however,...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Mazes
On her second album, Mazes, Harri Endersby subtly blurs the line between traditional and contemporary folk music, with added birdsong...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Detached
For lovers of boundary-pushing music, a flute and a diatonic accordion may not seem an immediately thrilling prospect. Here, however,...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Mély
Rozsdamaró are, in terms of the Hungarian folk revival, relative newcomers but committed traditionalists; that is to say that they...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Fire Under the Bridge
This sextet of folk musicians came together in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in northern England, in the shadow of the mighty Tyne Bridge,...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Léve Léve: São Tomé & Príncipe Sounds 70s-80s
São Tomé and Príncipe isn't exactly known as a musical powerhouse nation – Songlines has only ever reviewed one other...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
