Reviews

In the Round

Leveret

Leveret recorded their first album in a day. In the Round makes that seem extravagant – it was recorded in...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Ahoy Hoy

Boreas

Boreas are a new Norwegian-Scots quartet featuring Hardanger fiddle player Britt Pernille FrØholm, accordionist Irene Tillung and, from Scotland, fiddle...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Viena

Värttinä

Having worked with Värttinä earlier in 2015, I had a sense that their new album was going to be something...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Wiano

Sutari

Sutari are three Polish singers and instrumentalists who have their own take on traditional songs with a female perspective. It's...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Esteesee

Ange Hardy

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the greats of English literature – a founding poet of 19th-century Romanticism. Apparently he...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Psychedelic Trance Tarantella

Kalàscima

Kalàscima come from Salento, at the southern end of Italy, which boasts an explosive musical culture. The cover of this...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Romanian Tales

Diana Rasina

Diana Rasina is a Romanian singer, based in Vienna. Romanian Tales is a strong album and certainly marks her as...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Romance(s)

Aldina Duarte

After releasing Contos de Fados (a wordplay on ‘fairy tales’, replacing fairies with fados), Aldina Duarte decided to take time...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

The Longing Kind

Maz O’Connor

‘For this album I didn’t want to hide behind historical disasters and mythological beastsat the expense of my own experience,’...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

The Watchmaker's Wife

Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston

This is a highly anticipated third album from the double-bassist and fine vocalist Miranda Sykes and mandolin maestro Rex Preston....

Reviewed in issue April/2016