Reviews
Jorden Svart
This is timeless Scandinavian simplicity itself: the dark-edged voice of Maria Järventaus set against the virtuosic strings of Gabbi Dluzewski....
Reviewed in issue July/2019
The Great Irish Songbook
Dervish mark 30 years together with their first studio album in more than a decade and the first to be...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Merčedes Kolo
The Finnish harmonica band Sväng have made a series of photographs on different modes of transport – motorbike sidecar, railway...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Restitute
In 2016, the Wayward Band, the ensemble of gifted musicians Eliza Carthy first assembled in 2013, suffered what she describes...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Enclosure
The Askews have released some of the most striking folk music of recent years, from Hazel's involvement in Lady Maisery...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Handful of Earth
When this album was released in November 1981, the year had already seen riots in Brixton, Toxteth and Moss Side,...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Fly
Marichka and Mark Marczyk's Balaklava Blues was realised on the barricades during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. Inspired by the traditional...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Vildaluodda/Wildprint
Hildá Länsman, a young vocalist from northern Finland's indigenous Sámi community, fuses traditional joik chant-singing with electronic pop in the...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
