Reviews
A Ukrainian Wedding
Cappella Romana & Nadia Tarnawski
The order of a modern wedding has become standardised across the world: an engagement followed by a wedding ceremony with...
Reviewed in issue January/2025
Giorgos Katsaros
This is both a fabulous historical document and a musical treat from the rebetika heyday of Greek émigrés to the...
Reviewed in issue January/2025
Lost Things Returning
This is the second outing with the Cornwall-based, Birmingham-raised alt-folk duo Angeline Morrison and Nick Duffy. Following their debut, which...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Vento do Mar
This soulful album has the seamless feel of a longtime collaboration, rather than the debut production that it is. Portuguese...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
The Shovel Dance
Lankum aren’t the only purveyors of doom-laden folk. London-based nine-piece Shovel Dance Collective show with this, their second album, that...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Betwixt & Between 11
Bridget & Kitty/Resonant Bodies
Betwixt & Between Tapes is a quirky, niche proposition: an occasional series of cassette tape EPs featuring traditional, improvised and...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Umbelliferæ
Inspired by her love of aromatic plants, the traditions of folk and classical music, and her own chromesthesia (‘ability to...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Lifa Iotungard (Live)
For German Kai Uwe Faust, Dane Christopher Juul and Norwegian Maria Franz, who record together as Heilung, a live album...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Parlour Ballads
Parlour ballads, as a genre, get poor press as low-grade, middle-class Victoriana, but here’s Jon Boden at the piano (and...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
