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Review of Sanju

Sanju

Flook

Flatfish Records

Rating: ★★★★

Flook have been one of the most distinctive-sounding, innovative instrumental folk bands in Britain and Ireland since they formed in...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of Boss Morris

Boss Morris

Boss Morris

Boss Morris

Rating: ★★★★

The self-titled debut from Boss Morris soars with all the melancholy folk beauty of a Red Kite in a wintry...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of Dans fra Dalstrøka

Dans fra Dalstrøka

Hornorkesteret

PANOT

Rating: ★★★

By their own admission, the music of Norwegian sextet Hornorkesteret is hard to describe, and the line-up does little to...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of Folk Process

Folk Process

Cunning Folk

Rating: ★★★★

When do original songs enter into the folk process, shedding that singular point of origin for the rough and tumble...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of Hinterland

Hinterland

Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver

Top of the World

EarToTheGround Music

Rating: ★★★★★

Hinterland – a region beyond what is visible or known – comes with freights of psychological scree, and this striking...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of White

White

Torgeir Vassvik & Juhani Silvola

Eighth Nerve Audio

Rating: ★★★★

Many young bands today are grasping the traditions of the Sámi joik and taking it beyond the northern Sápmi landscapes,...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of Bálvvosbáiki

Bálvvosbáiki

Ánnámáret

Uksi Productions

Rating: ★★★★

The Indigenous Sámi tradition of joik chanting thrives in many styles across the Sápmi region of northern Norway, Sweden and...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of L’Âge d’Or

L’Âge d’Or

Karen Lano

Le Chant des Muses

Rating: ★★★★

One of the key Western artistic concerns of the 19th century was the positioning of poets as spiritual leaders, equal...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of Allt Vol II: Cuimhne

Allt Vol II: Cuimhne

Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley, Zoë Conway & John Mc Intyre

Machair Records

Rating: ★★★★

This is the second outing for a supergroup connecting the pan-Gaelic traditions of Hebridean Scotland and Ireland. It unites Julie...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of The Peacock and the Sunflower

The Peacock and the Sunflower

Veretski Pass & Joel Rubin

Borscht Beat

Rating: ★★★★

Veretski Pass are one of the world’s leading traditional klezmer bands, partly because they search out unusual and little-known repertoire....

Reviewed in issue April/2025

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