Reviews

Volume Two

Will McNicol with Innotet

Scottish acoustic guitarist Will McNicol’s first collaboration with the Innotet string quartet was lauded by Classic FM and its successor...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Trioliadam

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This collection of traditional Norwegian tunes was originally recorded in 1981. The results were never released, the master tapes lost,...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Talassa

Dario Muci

After 25 years of researching and performing traditional music from Salento and Apulia, Italy, singer-songwriter Dario Muci releases his first...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Outside Time

Tarren

The thrilling Tarren return with their second album (after 2022's Revel) with an equally stimulating take on traditional English folk...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

A Thousand Pokes

Stick in the Wheel

‘Pokes’ were typos to 14th-century scribes, and it's the rough music of a mistaken world, poked through with holes, that's...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

Traditional Singing from Dublin

Macdara Yeates

Macdara Yeates has played no small part in platforming a new generation of Irish folk singers via his stewardship of...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

Start Close In

The Rheingans Sisters

You would expect from The Rheingans Sisters, Rowan and Anna, the assertion of female autonomy, and ‘Devils’, their take on...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

MARÉ

MARÉ

Fishermen and their special connection to the sea have always had a pull on literature and music. Maybe it's because...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

Early Home Recordings

Sandy Denny

Recorded at home to her finger-picking accompaniment in Wimbledon in 1966 and 1967 – Denny's performing debut was at Kingston's...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

Cuckoo

Lemon Bucket Orkestra

Toronto-based Lemon Bucket Orchestra are Canada's version of Gogol Bordello and, like Eugene Hütz, it seems a good many of...

Reviewed in issue November/2024