Reviews

Sunce Te Gleda

Donja Jeka

With a title translating as ‘Sun is Looking at You’, the album cover hints that this is a sequence of...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

Senu Mi Venu Mi

VS Tempet + Điger

Described as “Croatian traditional singing with modern musical sound” and “fresh interpretations of Croatian musical heritage”, this is an album...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

Promenade

John Wright

John Wright was an English musician living in France, with a particular interest in the jaw harp, an instrument known...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

Drogi

Orkiestra Galicja

Galicia, once a vast multicultural province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire stretching from Kraków to Lviv, was a meeting point of...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

Nordic Reflections

Maimu Jõgeda

Maimu Jõgeda is an Estonian now living in Helsinki, and Nordic Reflections is her third album. It features nine original...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

Northern Sky

The Friel Sisters

Anna, Sheila and Clare Friel of Donegal play the fiddle, flute, tin whistle and uilleann pipes, and between them trade...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

Forgotten Tunes

Jarek Adamów & Nadbużanie

Jarek Adamów has been championing traditional Polish folk music for some 25 years. His albums have received mixed reviews in...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Wasteland

Jim Ghedi

There’s no contemporary singer quite like Jim Ghedi. In his otherworldly voice, with its underlay of drone mechanics, I hear...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Songs for You

Brigid Mae Power

Recorded as a tribute to Power’s late father, Songs for You is a touchingly heartfelt collection of covers. Harbach &...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Mirrored Daughters

Mirrored Daughters

The record label describes Mirrored Daughters as “lo-fi folk-pop and explorative woodland meditations”, which sums it up quite neatly. Melodic...

Reviewed in issue April/2025