Reviews
Arbrasson
Beñat Achiary, Patricia Chatelain & José le Piez
This eerily magical collaboration between experimental vocalist Achiary, sound sculptor le Piez and nomadic artist Chatelain is best listened to...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
Branches
Branches finds North Carolina fiddler and violinist Andrew Finn Magill confirming the promise of last year’s debut, Roots. The earlier...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
Awake in a Dream
Meszecsinka feature Hungarian, Bulgarian, Croatian and Polish musicians coming together to create a fusion that has been labelled ‘psychedelic, new...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
The Macalla Suite
Composed to commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, Michael Rooney’s The Macalla Suite is a compendium of folk...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
An Dà Là – The Two Days
After three years of near-constant touring, this six-piece band’s third album finds Ewen Henderson taking over lead vocals from now-departed...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
20sth
Perhaps the first thing to point out – although it’s not immediately noticeable on first listen – is that this...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
Making Waves
Luke Daniels’ Revolve and Rotate EP featured the sounds of the extraordinary Polyphon, a sort of vaudevillian organic-analogue synth –...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
Nuestras Vivencias
Echoes of Spain are an Anglo-Spanish flamenco guitar duo who have just self-produced their first album. They are both more...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
A World of Hope
This double album brings together tracks donated in support of the charity Postcards for Peace – an international organisation that...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
The Janus Game
Two stalwarts of the English folk scene come together on The Janus Game. The rousing title-track sets the scene with...
Reviewed in issue April/2017
