Reviews

The Moon We Watch is the Same

Floating Sofa Quartet

Not long after meeting as music students at 2013's Nordtrad conference, these four young folk musicians from Denmark, Finland and...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Varieties

Alma

Varieties opens with music that straddles British folk and baroque dance, before moving off in a very different direction: a...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Tördelős

Dresch Quartet

Sax and flute player Mihály Dresch is the leading figure in Magyar jazz and he formed his first quartet in...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Gatehouse

Tús Nua

Meaning ‘New Beginnings’, Tús Nua are an aptly named quartet, as they step onto the traditional scene for the first...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

The musicians of Brittany and Ireland have long held each other in high musical esteem and nowhere is this admiration...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

The Tinker's Dream

Chris Murphy

Although The Tinker's Dream is ostensibly a solo album, it sounds very much the product of a group. Chris Murphy,...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

The Voice of Suka

Maria Pomianowska

This is a remarkable album. Maria Pomianowska is a Polish fiddle player who collaborates with musicians all over the world;...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Galanìas

Actores Alidos

Twelve years since Canti Delle Donne Sarde, the stunning debut from the female quintet who briskly defied the island's traditionally...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Svod: Traditional Songs from Serbia and the Balkans

Bilja Krstic & Bistrik Orchestra

ARC Music is developing into one of the foremost record labels releasing new Balkan recordings – having issued excellent efforts...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Forge

Inlay

This young four-piece came together on the music course at the University of East Anglia and the expansiveness of the...

Reviewed in issue April/2017