Reviews

The Playhouse Sessions

Bjarte Eike & Barokksolistene

‘How should I behave when I have a violin in my hand?’ asks the dazzling Norwegian violinist Bjarte Eike in...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Murmuration

Coracle

Coracle are accordionist Paul Hutchinson, formerly of the beloved Belshazzar’s Feast with the late Paul Sartin, plus singer and multi-instrumentalist...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Waterways

JR Coote

J R Coote trained as a classical guitarist at Cambridge University, and spent time in southern Spain studying flamenco. These...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Wurdiz

Sowulo

Dutch Nordic dark folk band Sowulo harks back to the times of gods where the stories and beliefs of our...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Time Was Away

Emily Portman & Rob Harbron

Portman and Harbron are, in their different ways, leading lights of contemporary English folk – Portman as a singer, songwriter...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Sand, Silt, Flint

Fiona Soe Paing

Avant-garde folk doesn’t get much better than this. Fiona Soe Paing’s second solo album provides a brooding soundtrack to the...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Hushman

Hushman

The name Hushman may not be immediately familiar to you, but it is the name for a new project from...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Mae ’na Olau

Pedair

Siân James, Gwyneth Glyn, Meinir Gwilym and Gwenan Gibbard first sang together five years ago, and after recording five songs...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Flight Paths

Siskin Quartet

Siskin Quartet are a melding together of two remarkable duos. English-born fiddler Bridget Marsden and accordionist Leif Ottosson – outstanding...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Le Solas Faoithine

Jack Warnock

It’s been a wait for a follow-up to Jack Warnock’s debut EP in 2013. A decade on, the County Derry-born...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023