Reviews
Pretty Peggy
The second album from the Cornish-based singer, Britain's Got Talent finalist and BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner develops the...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Dañs!
Take a voice steeped in Breton tradition, team it with two musicians from a younger generation, and have another look...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Frost on Fiddles
One of my enduring WOMAD memories is of a cold, wet, muddy night in 2007 when the seven-piece Finnish band...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
An Introduction to Shirley Collins
You could say Shirley Collins needs little introduction and, certainly within the folk world, that is true. But this serves...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Shake the Chains
The Shake the Chains protest-song project (featured in #125) was conceived by English folk singer Greg Russell after his university...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Nykomlingen
This CD contains so much that is unexpected and surprising. It feels as though the band is on a journey...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Trails and Tribulations
Trails and Tribulations is consistently both beautiful, and beautifully crafted. It has an ambience of wistful, weary experience, thanks to...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
I Can Be A Clay Snapper (Lahko Sem Glinena Mesojedka)
Širom, a young Slovenian multi-instrumentalist trio, exemplify a fine balance between improvisation and craft. This, their second studio outing, sees...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Masaryk: Národní Písně: Moravian and Slovak Folk Songs Reimagined
A devoted exponent of Yiddish song, Lenka Lichtenberg returns with a deeply personal album that reimagines a 75-year-old collection of...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
