Reviews
Arenig
Hailing from Snowdonia, the young singer, song collector and instrumentalist Gwilym Bowen Rhys was a member of rock band Y...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Rhododendron
Topette!! are an Anglo-French dance band of great verve. It would be a curmudgeon of great resolve who could resist...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Hetkessä
Finland is a country of many outstanding accordionists and Teija Niku is one of the newer figures on the scene....
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Ein Etter Mor
Raabygg are an adventurous trio of musicians who explore the folk music of southern Norway and, in particular, some of...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
The Fiery Margin
Few singers directly impugn deities or muse on the fickle frailties of human flesh in their songs these days. Indeed,...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Chosen Daughter
When I reviewed O'Connor's debut release, This Willowed Light, back in #102, I enthused about how the turn of phrase...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Rustico
Júlia Kubinyi, Balázs Szokolay Dongó, Ferenc Zimber
This album is quietly radical. It features three skilled Hungarian folk musicians in unusual arrangements of tunes from different parts...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
August
Since the release of their first album, Modus Operandi, in 2013, Trio Dhoore, made up of brothers Koen (hurdy-gurdy), Hartwin...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Strange Suite
Guitarist Ateshkhan Yuseinov's new album truly is a Strange Suite; its carefully ordered tracks lead listeners down a path of...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Mastika
Urban southern Serbia, under Turkish rule until 1878, has retained many so-called ‘Oriental’ characteristics in its folkways, food and, of...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
