Reviews
The World That I Knew
Dublin-based duo VARO – singers and fiddlers Lucie Azconaga and Consuelo Nerea Breschi, from France and Italy respectively – are...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Cançons a l’Ombra
La Baula are a new Catalan group committed to collecting and spreading the traditional songs from their region. The title...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Song over støv
Hardanger fiddle player Apneseth emerged on the Norwegian folk scene as a rising star, an exquisite performer, a magnet for...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Seinferð
Faroe Islands-born, Copenhagen-based Lea Kampmann’s Seinferð (translated as Slow Motion) is characterised by a desire to encourage greater engagement with...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Daydreaming
María López is a musical prodigy. She comes from Galicia, on the Atlantic coast of northwest Spain, and although she...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Harpedåm
Tone Hulbækmo holds a unique place in Norwegian music. A singer and a devotee of Norway’s more unusual instruments, especially...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia
Màiri Morrison & Alasdair Roberts with Pete Johnston
The second album from this Scottish duo brings the two to the Scottish folk songs of Cape Breton in Eastern...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
When They All Looked Up
For her first album of new material in six years Kate Rusby has recorded, mostly, songs of her own. These...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
The Pearl Album (Live in Celebration)
Alternating songs with jigs, reels, slides, marches, hornpipes and airs, The Pearl Album celebrates 30 years of music making by...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Nouse Luonto – Songs of Nordic Biodiversity
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
In Finland, where nature is often on your doorstep, an estimated one in nine species is endangered. Nouse Luonto is...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
