Reviews
With the Dawn
Bella Hardy's new album begins with the track ‘The Only Thing to Do’, a striking and beautiful ballad addressing love...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Sheear
Not long ago, UNESCO was forced to change its classification of the Manx language from ‘extinct’ following protests from some...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Jelszó
Félix Lajkó & Budafoki Dohnányi Zenekar
Lajkó is one of Europe's most talented and most adventurous violinists. Hungarian-speaking, but Serbian-born, he transcends musical borders, ranging from...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
In a Cosmic Ear
Up until their dissolution in the mid-1990s, Calabria's Re Niliu had been diving deep into traditional Italian peasant music, growing...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015
This year's Folk Awards release ranges widely and somewhat surprisingly: there's Peggy Seeger, in her 80s singing not a rousing...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
7 Fish
This is Kelly Thoma's second solo album and, like her debut Anamkhara, it reveals her to be among the most...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Sikoses
The Nicosia-based trio Monsieur Doumani have returned with a truly sterling effort on their second album. It features reworkings of...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Stories Sung, Truths Told
Recorded in just one week in summer 2014 and produced by Jim Moray, Stories Sung, Truths Told ably shows off...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Let's Get Low
This album by English cellist and singer-songwriter Barney Morse-Brown marks the beginning of what might be a more poppy sound....
Reviewed in issue June/2015
The Longest River
Olivia Chaney released EPs in 2010 and 2013, contributed towards the Peter Bellamy tribute album Oak Ash and Thorn, and...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
