Reviews

Summat's Brewin’

O’Hooley & Tidow

This talented folk duo's latest project is the Summat's Brewin’ Micro Tour and album, subtitled ‘a celebration of real ale,...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016

Bouzoukispelman

Per Gudmundson

Swedish traditional music has many reasons to thank Ale Möller and Per Gudmundson. Their music in Frifot (with singer Lena...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016

Vōytek (The Bear)

Tantz

Klezmer has a rebel soul and this is certainly not absent in Tantz's debut album. The fact that they have...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016

Woven

Sarah Hayes

The first album from the highly talented Northumbrian singer and flautist Sarah Hayes starts very promisingly. ‘The Fell Line’ is...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016

Mundo

Mariza

Mariza's last album, 2010's Fado Tradicional, was, as its title implied, a relatively conservative affair that lovingly restated a firm...

Reviewed in issue December/2015

Radial

Griselda Sanderson

Griselda Sanderson plays the nyckelharpa, a keyed Swedish fiddle instrument with sympathetic strings that dates back 600 years. A short...

Reviewed in issue December/2015

Upsurge

Scott Wood Band

Recorded in a live setting, Upsurge, the new album from the Scott Wood Band, proves the group to be a...

Reviewed in issue December/2015

Conflict Tourism

Gilmore & Roberts

The British duo's fourth album has a strong thread of stories, settings and characters. It's a folk-pop concept album with...

Reviewed in issue December/2015

Urram

Karen Matheson

Karen Matheson's first solo album of exclusively Gaelic songs is remarkable for its unexpected and surprising musical settings. Matheson has...

Reviewed in issue December/2015

Tunes from the Trenches: Songs from the First and Second World Wars

John Kirkpatrick

This kit-bag full of old songs springs from John Kirkpatrick's feeling that we get nearer to what the soldiers felt...

Reviewed in issue December/2015