Reviews

Sê

Gil do Carmo

It’s never easy when someone, unable to fight destiny picks up on the same craft their parents excelled...

Reviewed in issue November/2022

Lustuz Laþu Wōþuz Alu

Nebala

Nordic and Viking culture is currently enjoying a resurgence, not least with the release of big-budget film, The Northman. Which...

Reviewed in issue November/2022

Tobar an Cheoil

Draíocht

Two of the purest voices in Irish traditional music – the harp and the flute – combine to beguiling effect on...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

The Youth That Belonged to Miltown

Marian Curtin & Therese McInerney

Nestled on the rugged Atlantic coastline of County Clare, Miltown Malbay has produced poets, politicians (an Irish president among them)...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Drif

Heilung

Heilung formed in Copenhagen, Dermark, in 2014, and comprise of German singer Kai Uwe Faust, Danish producer Christopher Juul and...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

One and All

Fisherman’s Friends

Forget the lockdown postman and shanty TikTok craze, haul away and pass round the grog, open your gullet and get...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Nova

Erlend Apneseth

For his first solo album in nine years Apneseth, one of Norway’s most thrilling Hardanger fiddle players, chose to record...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Ritual

Ana Alcaide

For her sixth album. Spanish performer, composer and music producer Ana Alcaide offers what she describes as a ‘hymn to...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Overheard

Ruby Colley

Birdsong features on a range of recent folk-inflected albums – our avian friends are the exotic new back-ups (although solo...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Throisma

Antonis Antoniou

This is the second solo album from Monsieur Doumani’s Antonis Antoniou, and like the previous Kkismettin it’s a corker. It...

Reviewed in issue October/2022