Reviews
At the Heart of it All
Capercaillie’s Donald Shaw has recently observed that, even when you’ve been at the forefront of contemporary Gaelic music for 30...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
The Full English
This album is one segment of an ambitious project from the EFDSS (English Folk Dance and Song Society), drawing together...
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Hidden Seam
Wild and Undaunted was a striking debut, followed six years later by 2012’s Hunt the Hare EP. Now, at last,...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Mortissa
Readers may already be familiar with Çigdem Aslan, as she’s lead singer with She’koyokh, the fabulous London-based Balkan klezmer ensemble....
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Mynd
Mynd is the apt title of this excellent album, an Old English word meaning both ‘act of commemoration’ and ‘intellect.’...
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Flourish
Katie McNally is a terrific young fiddle player from Boston, who, devoted to the Scottish and Cape Breton traditions, is...
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Lúnasa with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Lúnasa with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Irish national broadcaster RTÉ has a versatile Concert Orchestra that has made something of a happy habit of venturing into...
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Portraits
Niamh Dunne is the singer and fiddle player with the highly successful band Beoga and Portraits is her first solo...
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Songs by Geirr Tveitt
This music is fragile, meditative and delicate, with soundscapes leading us into secret, intimate places. The names on the album...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
One and All
For years The Fisherman’s Friends entertained their mates, holidaymakers and most of all themselves, by singing shanties every week in...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
