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Elena Baklava

Elena Hristova has performed with the Macedonian group Baklava since 2006, but now for her solo career she calls herself,...

Reviewed in issue September/2025

Terra Mãe

LINA_ & Jules Maxwell

When she metamorphosed from Carolina to LINA_, the Portuguese singer signalled that she would leave traditional fado behind and venture...

Reviewed in issue September/2025

New Music for the 6 String Guitar

Toby Hay

Rhayader guitarist Toby Hay's latest work sees his newly commissioned Fylde Ariel acoustic take centre stage on a solo album...

Reviewed in issue September/2025

Tomorrow Held

Spafford Campbell

Opening with minimal, subliminal guitar, very quiet and very still, an expressive fiddle soon eases in, the two shapeshifting around...

Reviewed in issue September/2025

Upstairs in a Tent

Tellefs

Norwegian folk educator and multi-instrumentalist Tellef Kvifte has been a prominent figure in his native music scene for some years...

Reviewed in issue September/2025

Mirra

Benedicte Maurseth

Benedicte Maurseth's love of, and inspiration in, the environment of the wind-swept alpine Hardangervidda plateau in Norway – where she...

Reviewed in issue September/2025

Danse Divines

DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson

Danse Divines is the fourth album from this French duo with a sun-kissed Afropean lilt and beats ranging from disco...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

Evigheten Forestår

Hekate

Meet Hekate, a vocal trio that have already cast a spell over audiences with their chilling and thrilling brew of...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

Trespass

Alex Roberts

“Alex plays bloody wonderfully,” said the late great John Renbourn, of Pentangle fame, and here’s a new set that proves...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

Lineage

CAIN

What’s a techno/broken beat DJ doing in Songlines? Duncan Grant aka CAIN has been making electronic music for years, but...

Reviewed in issue August/2025