Reviews
Turas 1980
Banish all thoughts of the New Age-accented, ambient-washed sound that made Clannad a crossover phenomenon following the attention-grabbing success of...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
Fen, Farm & Deadly Water
As intimated by the title of this fresh second album, the Fens – the marshy region in Eastern England with...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
An Introduction to Martin Carthy
One of the jewels in Topic's vast catalogue has to be the work of Martin Carthy, one of the colossi...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
Alku: The Beginning
Violin, voice and jouhikko (Finnish bowed lyre) make for a powerful combination in this solo album from Päivi Hirvonen, who...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
Folk Music from Transylvania, Then and Now
The revival of authentic Transylvanian music was central to the Hungarian táncház (dance house) movement in the 1980s and 90s....
Reviewed in issue October/2018
Many a Thousand
Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith
This third studio album from the Norfolk-born folk duo follows their impressive 2016 release, Night Hours. It contains all the...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
Destination: Fellside Recordings 1976-2018
The label Fellside has been a significant force in independent folk music recording for 42 years, with more than 600...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
Sväng Plays Tango
Finnish tango is a serious business. For over 100 years now it has spoken of melancholy, heartbreak and gloom. But...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
When All is Still
Rachael McShane & The Cartographers
‘The Molecatcher’, the first track of Rachael McShane's terrific album with her new band, The Cartographers, sets the tenor of...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
France, Gascony: The Bagpipes of the Moorlands
The Gascony moorlands, a region of flat, isolated, humid grassland stretching from Bordeaux down to the start of the Basque...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
