Reviews

PAUSIS

Pausis

This album is an intriguing project from Theodore Koumartzis who runs a foundation in Thessaloniki which seeks to recreate the...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Isle of the Eagle

The Achill Sound

’Isle Of The Eagle’ is a song from Achill, the largest of the isles off Ireland’s west coast, written by...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Ladaniva

Ladaniva

Ladaniva is the creation of Belarusso-Armenian singer Jaklin Baghdasaryan and French multi-instrumentalist, Louis Thomas, whose featured trumpet playing often recalls...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Tudat Alatt

Soma Salamon

Soma Salamon is a folk music researcher and performer specialising in traditional flutes. He’s played with a number of bands...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

A Curious Compendium of Crooked Irish Tunes Vol 1

Dave Flynn

It’s safe to say that Dr Dave Flynn is something of an iconoclast. The composer and guitarist behind the Irish...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Wild Wet World

Cosmo Sheldrake

Sheldrake’s previous album was the excellent Wake Up Calls, featuring music and sound set to birdsong, in order to ‘help...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Irish Rock’n’Roll

The Mary Wallopers

‘Well here I am from Paddy’s Land,’ sings Charles Hendy in the opening line of ‘The Bauld O’Donoghue’, the first...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Sur Mon Dos

Matjé

Like Manu Chao, Matjé is a musical voyager, who took his artist’s name from the Creole word ‘to write’. The...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Unheard Landscapes

Mikko H Haapoja

Haapoja is a Helsinki-based producer and includes one of Finland’s current favourite bands, Okra Playground, among his credits. On Unheard...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Hämärä

Sähköpaimen

If you see the name Eero Grundström (Sväng, Suistamon Sähkö) on any release, go for it. It’ll be a bit...

Reviewed in issue November/2023