Reviews

Antiphony of the Trees

Laura Cannell & Stewart Lee & Friends | Laura Cannell

Antiphony of the Trees, the seventh record from Laura Cannell, saw a change of scenery for the composer and improvisor....

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Day is Come

The Alt

The self-titled first album by the trio of Nuala Kennedy (flute and whistle), John Doyle (guitar, bodhrán, keyboards), and Eamon...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Needle & Thread

Dom Prag

Dom Prag is a young singer and guitarist from Southampton who discovered the world of traditional folk song when he...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Hallival

Iona Lane

Nominative determinism is at work here. Iona is a Hebridean island famed for its wild beauty, spirituality, and ancient stories....

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Fado Jazz

Júlio Resende

Fado Jazz is Júlio Resende’s first album with ACT Music, one of Europe’s leading jazz labels and home to extraordinary...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Volume II

The Armagh Rhymers

The Armagh Rhymers have been fusing ancient and modern, the mundane and the magical, legend and the life lived since...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Deò

Beinn Lee

On ‘Anam Saor’, the first single from this, their second album, Uist sextet Beinn Lee talk about finding their place...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Maiden Voyage

The Silver Darlings

So, 2021’s taste for the sea shanties may be starting to go as stale as a ship’s biscuit, but there...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Varka

Dafné Kritharas | DafnÉ Kritharas

It needs to be said at the outset that Dafné Kritharas has a fantastic voice, it has a clear, pure...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Whistle Walks

Terry Clarke-Coyne

Liverpool-born to Irish parents, whistle player Terry Clarke-Coyne spent the pandemic recording more than 150 virtual duets for YouTube with...

Reviewed in issue April/2022