Reviews
Cold Blows the Rain
Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions
This is a good period for ethereal and weird folk and traditional music, with acts like Milkweed seeing their idiosyncratic...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Jean Claude Vannier Et Son Orchestre de Mandolines
Jean Claude Vannier Et Son Orchestre de Mandolines
Now here’s an unusual, quirky and charming instrumental set from a French composer with a deserved cult following in the...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
The Winter Yards
This is – believe it or not – the first solo studio album from English folk singer-songwriter Steve Knightley in...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Violet Sky
Helen Gentile (Monkey See Monkey Do) and Lewis Wood (Granny’s Attic) reunite for Violet Sky, their second album of original...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
A Terrible Beauty
More than half a century after his debut LP, Christy Moore’s first outing on Claddagh Records shows there’s still mileage...
Reviewed in issue January/2025
De Cop i Volta
Brunzit is the Catalan word for both the buzzing of the bees and a drink that’s made from honey and...
Reviewed in issue January/2025
Klezmer, Niguns & Co
Clarinettist Nano Peylet and pianist Denis Cuniot formed their duo in 1983 in their native France and have been playing...
Reviewed in issue January/2025
Athos: Echoes from the Holy Mountain
FLEE Project are known for their work in presenting traditional musics raw, and then calling on contemporary musicians to recontextualise...
Reviewed in issue January/2025
It All Came Round Again
Subtitled ‘On Stage and On Air 1982-90’, this is an extensive and intriguing history of what was a decidedly tricky...
Reviewed in issue January/2025
Femmina
The vocalist and clarinettist Gera Bertolone hails from Sicily, and here puts together an album of original songs which blend...
Reviewed in issue January/2025
