Reviews

Tóg É Go Bog É

Kíla

Newly reissued on double-vinyl, Tóg É Go Bog É (Take it Easy) is Kíla's 1997 sophomore offering. Then already well-established...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2019

Allt

Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley, Zoë Conway & John Mc Intyre

This feels like something of a Gaelic supergroup album. It brings together two power couples – Hebridean singer and whistles...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2019

Times from Times Fall

Fara

This Orkney born and bred quartet – fiddlers Kristan Harvey, Jeana Leslie and Catriona Price, alongside pianist Jennifer Austin –...

Reviewed in issue December/2018

Dalinda

Dalinda

The a capella group Dalinda is made up of three Hungarian singers – Johanna Orbán, Julianna Paár and Sára Timár....

Reviewed in issue December/2018

The Well Worn Path

Seth Lakeman

This ninth solo album from the West Country fiddler and singer-songwriter might well be his equivalent of Fairport Convention's Liege...

Reviewed in issue December/2018

Avalanche

Ímar

Ímar, a quintet who met on Glasgow's trad music scene, form an alliance of Scottish, Irish and Manx idioms. Their...

Reviewed in issue December/2018

Ordinary Giants: A Life & Times 1918-2018

Robb Johnson

Robb Johnson is a remarkable singer-songwriter who won acclaim with 1997's Gentle Men, an album that used his grandfathers' lives...

Reviewed in issue December/2018

Saith VII

Ar Log

In 1976 Ar Log came together to represent Wales at a festival of Celtic music in Brittany. There they met...

Reviewed in issue December/2018

Opérette Volume 2

Moussu T e lei Jovents

The subtitle of this delightful album, Chansons Marseillaises 1930-1940, suggests no obvious Jamaican link. Yet Moussu T was initially inspired...

Reviewed in issue December/2018

A Cure for the Curious

Solasta

This super-confident debut set from the masterful trio is unorthodox and fantastic. From the sharply abrupt end to opener ‘The...

Reviewed in issue December/2018