Reviews

A Thousand Pokes

Stick in the Wheel

‘Pokes’ were typos to 14th-century scribes, and it's the rough music of a mistaken world, poked through with holes, that's...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

Traditional Singing from Dublin

Macdara Yeates

Macdara Yeates has played no small part in platforming a new generation of Irish folk singers via his stewardship of...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

Start Close In

The Rheingans Sisters

You would expect from The Rheingans Sisters, Rowan and Anna, the assertion of female autonomy, and ‘Devils’, their take on...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

MARÉ

MARÉ

Fishermen and their special connection to the sea have always had a pull on literature and music. Maybe it's because...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

Early Home Recordings

Sandy Denny

Recorded at home to her finger-picking accompaniment in Wimbledon in 1966 and 1967 – Denny's performing debut was at Kingston's...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

Cuckoo

Lemon Bucket Orkestra

Toronto-based Lemon Bucket Orchestra are Canada's version of Gogol Bordello and, like Eugene Hütz, it seems a good many of...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

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Vigüela

Vigüela, a traditional Central Spanish folk quintet, take inspiration from US ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, using the Castillian songbook as a...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

8 Sonneurs pour Philip Glass

Erwan Keravec

Breton sonneur Keravec has long taken the bagpipes into new territories; no mean feat for an instrument so ancient. Early...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

Sem Palavras (feat Iván ‘Melon’ Lewis)

Marta Pereira da Costa

‘Queen of the Portuguese Guitar’, Pereira da Costa may only be on her second album, but her trailblazing reputation as...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

SÁLA

Kati Rán

Dutch performer Kati Rán describes her music as ‘dark Nordic folk’ revealing her deep affinity with Norse mythology. The title...

Reviewed in issue October/2024