Reviews

Aire!

Caamaño & Ameixeiras

Galicia in north-western Spain is a world apart, comparable perhaps to Dingle in Ireland. Folk music traditions are passed down...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Noninó

Aigua

Aigua is a duo formed of two contrasting life experiences: guitarist and singer Joan Peiró Aznar was born in Potríes,...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Naaljos Ljom

Naaljos Ljom

I like my Norwegian folk music with an earthy, gritty, dirt under the fingernails sort of sound. I wasn't expecting...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Atlântico

Fapy Lafertin New Quartet

Django lives! Or his legacy does anyway. Raised in a Belgian manouche community, where he learned the guitar as a...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Tobie

Dagadana

Dagadana’s fifth studio album should be given kudos as an attempt to provide ‘cheerfulness and generosity’ in our often gloomy,...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Iorram

Aidan O’Rourke

Iorram (Boat Song) begins with electro-washes of ambient sound, swooping back and forth, as if in the process of self...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Czary i Czarty

Wicher

With last issue’s Devil’s Fiddle album, the recent Daj Ognia disc with its dance-of-death track and this Wicher release, maybe...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Haar

HAV

This second album from Scottish ambient folk trio HAV is as ethereal and elusive as the coastal environment it is...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Monastir

Sarah Aroeste

There is quite some story and a lot of work behind this album. American-born Sarah Aroeste comes from a Sephardic...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Ffiniau

Bethan Nia

Ffiniau is Welsh for ‘borders’ and harpist and singer Bethan Nia’s debut album explores the boundaries that exist between people,...

Reviewed in issue October/2021