Reviews
Soul for a Compass
A respected performer, tutor and community music project leader in the Highlands, accordionist Henderson is understandably keen to show off...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
Javas
London now comes just after Bordeaux in terms of numbers of its urban French population, so it's perhaps no great...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
Distant Havens
This inventive British folk trio bring together influences from across Britain and Ireland – five songs here are sung in...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
Anthologie du Patrimoine Phonographique Breton 1925-1960
This is a tribute to a forgotten pioneer of the post-war rebirth of Breton music: Hermann Wolf, who made some...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
Coat-Tails Flying
Being able to play just about any kind of music on any kind of squeezebox (with buttons, that is), John...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
The Drunken Gaugers
Kevin Crawford, Dylan Foley & Patrick Doocey
There's a delightfully tipsy quality to the familiar jig that gives this album, from three scions of New York's Irish...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
D'rect from the Shire
Jez Hellard & The Djukella Orchestra
D'rect from the Shire was recorded live at the ‘Sofa Sessions’ at King's Cliffe Village Hall. It opens with ‘Canned...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
alterum
In her own cool and exquisite way, Julie Fowlis is moving on. She became an international star by singing traditional...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
The Seer
The Brahan Seer, Coinneach Odhar, was a legendary 17th-century Gaelic prophet whose writings are the focus for this moody new...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
At Least Wave Your Handkerchief at Me: The Joys and Sorrows of Albanian Song
This is a journey into the mountains of southern Albania with producer Joe Boyd and engineer Jerry Boys. Boyd and...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
