Reviews
Fiddle Tunes
Elise Boeur & Adam Iredale-Gray
This album's modest title reflects the pure reverence, unmitigated by contemporised showiness, with which these instrumentalists approach music from Ireland,...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Que-vive!
Compagnie Rassegna are a band based in the south of France, led by guitarist Bruno Allary. They are also involved...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Polaris
Turin-dwelling musicians of southern Italian descent (Oreste Forestieri, Franco Montanaro and Valeria Quarta), delve into traditional forms from the southern...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Blackletter Garland
The Hack-Poets Guild are Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp and composer and sound designer Nathaniel Mann. Working with Sound UK Arts,...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Tamoj
The Polish group Sutari have always said their music (and name) was influenced by Lithuanian sutartinės, a polyphonic vocal form....
Reviewed in issue March/2023
The Norwegian Bagpipe (?) Vol II
Norwegian bagpipes? Trust me or, rather, trust Tellef Kvifte. He's one of Norwegian music's treasures: as professor of musicology researching...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Collection of Traditional Musics 31: Peasant Brass Bands From Moldavia
Şarambel Brass Band from Valea Mare, Vaslui
This is the 31st disc in the remarkable collection of recordings of traditional Romanian music started by the late Speranța...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Cordé Serré
Celtic communities have helped to shape Québec's heritage and, whether of Breton, Cornish, Scottish, Welsh, Irish or Mannian origin, most...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Howay the Lasses
This striking 11-track collection from Howay the Lasses – a quartet featuring Annie Ball (vocals, accordion, piano), Bronwen Davies-Jones (vocals),...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
