Reviews

Transform Me Then Into A Fish

Martin Carthy

Carthy celebrates his 84th birthday on May 21 with a new album that echoes, after 60 years, his first. Transform...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Eilifð

Anúna

Formed in 1987 by the composer Michael McGlynn, Anúna have become surely the best-known vocal group (he doesn’t like to...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Dancing the Line

Ultan O’Brien

Ultan O’Brien is a fiddler and composer hailing from County Clare in West Ireland with an interest in both the...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Swilkie

Iona Lane

The Swilkie is a dangerous whirlpool between Orkney and the Scottish mainland. It’s where, according to Icelandic legend, the salt...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Two Boats Under the Moon

Donald WG Lindsay

Those who have followed Donald Lindsay’s musical output may be surprised to learn that Two Boats Under the Moon is...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Sharatin

Ensemble Marani

Ensemble Marani are an award-winning group of vocalists singing Georgian polyphony who have been active for over 30 years. They...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

fygame

Thanos Stavridis & Drom

Cultural borders are a lot older, and more cloudy, than geo-political, linguistic and ethnic borders, and this recording demonstrates that...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Urban Myths

Marc Crofts Klezmer Ensemble

Swiss/English/Ashkenazi/Sephardic violinist Marc Crofts and his Klezmer Ensemble made up of clarinet, accordion and double bass make for the classic...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Seeds Are Sewing

Alex Etchart

Listening to this on the day the UK Supreme Court stripped trans people of their rights was bittersweet. Alex Etchart’s...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Songs for the Trees

Kate Daisy Grant & Nick Pynn

A rich and deeply mytho-poetic set of 13 songs drawing on Ogham (the Druidic ‘tree alphabet’) and evoking some of...

Reviewed in issue July/2025