Reviews

Vulpus

The Drystones

Fusing folk fiddle and guitar with dance music, the Somerset duo celebrate ten years together with their fourth album, Vulpus....

Reviewed in issue June/2022

River of Dreams

Johnny Coppin

There is something charmingly familiar and almost old fashioned about ex-Decameron guitarist Johnny Coppin’s River of Dreams that is evident...

Reviewed in issue June/2022

Duo Vargoz

Duo Vargoz

Re-exploring repertoires of oral tradition and rearranging them is a fairly common approach in the world of traditional music today....

Reviewed in issue June/2022

Bourdon

Topette!!

Bourdon is French for ‘Bumblebee,’ and Topette!!’s exhilarating and intriguing new album begins with the buzz of a dumbledore. This...

Reviewed in issue June/2022

30: Happy Returns

Kate Rusby

To celebrate 30 years as a performing musician Kate Rusby has selected songs from her 18 previous albums and recorded...

Reviewed in issue June/2022

Supra

Iberi

Unaccompanied Georgian choral music has become hugely and globally popular among listeners and amateur singers, and there are plentiful examples...

Reviewed in issue June/2022

The Bend in the Light

Ellen Gibling

Hailing from K’jipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia, classically trained Ellen Gibling’s keen interest in Irish traditional music is given free rein...

Reviewed in issue June/2022

Nick Harts Sings Ten English Folk Songs

Nick Hart

The third studio album from folk singer Nick Hart will ring a bell. With dry humour, he is totting up...

Reviewed in issue June/2022

Nine Waves

Ye Vagabonds

For their second album on the excellent River Lea label, Diarmuid and Brían Mac Gloinn, aka Ye Vagabonds, are joined...

Reviewed in issue June/2022

Canzuni

Massimo Ferrante

Canzuni is a fine assortment of southern Italian folk songs. Calabria-born but a long-time resident of Naples, Ferrante is a...

Reviewed in issue June/2022