Reviews
Gold Has Worn Away
Benji Kirkpatrick & The Excess
Benji Kirkpatrick is a founder member of big-band folk trailblazers Bellowhead and a current member of Faustus, but he is...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
Hed
The seventh-born of the well-known Kreiz Breizh Akademi musical laboratory from Brittany, this collective is based on the famous tradition...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
Cold Light
The Bideford-based folk duo's last album celebrated Devonian postman poet Edward Capern, but with Cold Light the two fiddle players,...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
Op 2
Stanislav Yudin & Asnate Rancane
Op 1 doesn't seem to exist, as an album anyway. But if Op 2 is anything to go by then...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
Borrowed Songs
It is rare to hear an album that confronts you with such a powerful sense of who a person is...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
Det Var en Lørdagsafen
Saturday night's alright for, well, in this case, singing! Firo's new release translates as ‘Once on a Saturday Night’ and...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
The Soul of Epirus
Petroloukas Halkias & Vasilis Kostas
Petroloukas Halkias (also spelled Chalkias) is a revered 85-year-old clarinettist, while Vasilis Kostas is a rising player of the eight-stringed...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
Torb
One day Songlines will have to invent a prize for ‘most niche’ music genre and performer. Catalan medieval folk will...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
Sambol Amore Migrante
If the tale that inspired this arresting album had been filmed by Federico Fellini, this would be its soundtrack. It's...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
