Reviews
This is What I Want to Say
Throughout a career spanning 40 years, nearly that many albums and thousands of live performances, the Welsh singer-songwriter with the...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Move into the Luminous
The cool, ambient depth charges embedded across Move into the Luminous come from prolific double bassist Jon Thorne (Lamb, Yorkston...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
Na Beanna Beola
It’s a been a long wait for Fiachra O’Regan’s solo follow-up to his 2008 debut, Aisling Gheal. The time in...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
Glad Christmas Comes
‘Glad Christmas comes’ is the opening line from ‘December’ in John Clare’s poem The Shepherd’s Calendar. Carthy and Boden sing...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
Torem
Shamanic couple Natasha ‘Baba Yaga’ and Anatoly Pakhalenko bring you another haunting Siberian offering with Torem. It’s an invitation to...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
Talende Strenger/Kertovat Kielet
Ragnhild Knudsen & Pauliina Syrjälä
Look no further than this Norwegian/Finnish collaboration for a textbook example of how musicians and producers should convey their music...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
Ode Dite
This is a curious release from Croatian guitarist and singer-songwriter Adam Semijalac. He’s deliberately put his guitar away and picked...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
When We Fly
Hartwin Dhoore and his younger brother, Ward, are a duo from Rodeland in Belgium. They take their name, Siger, from...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
A Brighter Future
The past century-plus of recorded accordion music in Finland has been dominated by dance music, epitomised by countless polkas and...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
