Reviews

Airs and Graces

June Tabor

Continuing the Topic Treasures series of reissues to celebrate the label's 80th birthday, June Tabor's 1976 solo debut comes with...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

Sparks

Rachel Hair & Ron Jappy

The fifth album from the Highland harpist with a name that confuses Google (think Jennifer Aniston and a popular TV...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

On Clay Hill

Belinda Kempster & Fran Foote

This is a family album. On the face of it, it's a stripped-back, purist collection of traditional English folk songs,...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

Cossack Attack!

Čendeš

Slovak sextet Čendeš are a relatively recently formed band framed around the cimbalom (a hammered dulcimer the size of a...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

Outra Margem

Vila Navio

It is a tricky path, the one Vila Navio find themselves exploring: taking Portuguese traditional music and injecting it with...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

Variācijas

Lata Donga

At the core of the Latvian group Lata Donga are four singers from a single family who can be heard...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

Rule of 3

Väsen

I've heard the legendary Swedish band Väsen play in some strange places, often involving journeys of deep snow, darkest cellars,...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

Two

Steve Crawford & Sabrina Palm

The attractive mix of traditional Scots and Irish tunes and songs makes up the body of Crawford and Palm's new...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

Origo

Kaja

Rooted in Eastern European music, this latest album from instrumental trio Kaja explores the boundaries of that wide genre and...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

Nyolc 8 Nyolc

Söndörgő

Söndörgő are Hungary's super-lively tambura band, fizzing in their music and breathtaking to watch on stage. Members of the Eredics...

Reviewed in issue July/2019