Reviews
Fire Draw Near
Fire Draw Near is a bewitching baker's dozen of often rough and raw but altogether relishable recordings. Compiled by Lankum's...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Songs Without Authors Vol 1
Every emerging folk singer likes to think their interpretation offers the listener a chance to hear, to think, something new:...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Live at TUSK 2019
Recorded at the eclectic TUSK Festival in Gateshead, this live set captures the last night of the first ever UK...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
L'infinit
Francesc Sans is a much travelled Catalan player of the cornamusa, a type of gaita or bagpipes (cornemuse in French)....
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Now and Then
The term ‘world music’ has become increasingly vague over the years, and although this recording, from a trio of Romanian...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
The Brickfields
This fourth studio album from the British folk trio is one of many albums born out of the pandemic that...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Evocazioni e Invocazioni
Ancient resonances tinge Davide Ambrogio's timbre. He is a Calabrian singer and multi-instrumentalist – guitars, Calabrian lyre, zampogna (bagpipes), electronics...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
The Guesthouse Sessions
Lockdown has proved a rich creative experience for the Belgian bal folk duo, diatonic accordionists Pascale Rubens and Toon Van...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Alone on a Hill
Katy Rose Bennett has been performing her Americana-tinged style of folk music for the best part of 20 years. She's...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
