Reviews
Nights in the Belly of Bohemia
Gabriel Moreno’s new album shows the singer-songwriter at the height of his powers. The London-based Gibraltarian poet/musician explores the dilemmas...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Luna, Cera e Vino
From southern Italy comes what is described as a “dreamlike journey through memories, recollections and new images” of the ancient...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
The World That I Knew
Dublin-based duo VARO – singers and fiddlers Lucie Azconaga and Consuelo Nerea Breschi, from France and Italy respectively – are...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Cançons a l’Ombra
La Baula are a new Catalan group committed to collecting and spreading the traditional songs from their region. The title...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Song over støv
Hardanger fiddle player Apneseth emerged on the Norwegian folk scene as a rising star, an exquisite performer, a magnet for...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Seinferð
Faroe Islands-born, Copenhagen-based Lea Kampmann’s Seinferð (translated as Slow Motion) is characterised by a desire to encourage greater engagement with...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Daydreaming
María López is a musical prodigy. She comes from Galicia, on the Atlantic coast of northwest Spain, and although she...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Harpedåm
Tone Hulbækmo holds a unique place in Norwegian music. A singer and a devotee of Norway’s more unusual instruments, especially...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia
Màiri Morrison & Alasdair Roberts with Pete Johnston
The second album from this Scottish duo brings the two to the Scottish folk songs of Cape Breton in Eastern...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
When They All Looked Up
For her first album of new material in six years Kate Rusby has recorded, mostly, songs of her own. These...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
