Reviews
Hetkessä
Finland is a country of many outstanding accordionists and Teija Niku is one of the newer figures on the scene....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2019
No Way to Go
Many a record containing messages of hope and unit was suppressed due to racist censorship during the South African apartheid...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: December/2019
Live at Zion
Over the course of now five albums, 3hattrio have carved out a special niche as sonic interpreters of a particular...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2019
Karma
After Jambinai, Black String are the best known of the intriguing new batch of experimental folk bands from South Korea....
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2019
Ein Etter Mor
Raabygg are an adventurous trio of musicians who explore the folk music of southern Norway and, in particular, some of...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: December/2019
The Fiery Margin
Few singers directly impugn deities or muse on the fickle frailties of human flesh in their songs these days. Indeed,...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: December/2019
Chosen Daughter
When I reviewed O'Connor's debut release, This Willowed Light, back in #102, I enthused about how the turn of phrase...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2019
Rustico
Júlia Kubinyi, Balázs Szokolay Dongó, Ferenc Zimber
This album is quietly radical. It features three skilled Hungarian folk musicians in unusual arrangements of tunes from different parts...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2019
August
Since the release of their first album, Modus Operandi, in 2013, Trio Dhoore, made up of brothers Koen (hurdy-gurdy), Hartwin...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2019
