Reviews

Devil’s Fiddle

Cezary Duchnowski & Radical Polish Ansambl

The idea of fiddlers selling their soul to the devil for special musical gifts or being linked to the supernatural...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021

The Orcadians of Hudson Bay

Graham Rorie

Premiered at Celtic Connections 2020, this evocative project grew out of the fascination of Orkney-born musician and composer Graham Rorie...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021

Embruxo

Baiuca

Galician producer Baiuca (aka Alejandro Guillán) does ‘folktronics,’ blending his native traditional music with the ambient and dance electronica of...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021

The Eternal Rocks Beneath

Katherine Priddy

Priddy’s Wolf EP appeared in 2018, garlanded with praise from Richard Thompson. She’s since played the stages of Cambridge and...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021

Enigma

Bjonko

Bjonko Stosic is a Danish musician, a clarinettist and saxophonist of South Slav decent. Although he’s marketed as part of...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021

The Electric Muse Revisited

VARIOUS ARTISTS

When the book The Electric Muse was originally published in 1975 a separate four-LP box set was issued to accompany...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021

I Would Not Live Always

John Francis Flynn

I Would Not Live Always opens with a brief burst of burbling electronics before the traditional ballad ‘Lovely Joan’ weighs...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021

Càirdeas

Brian Ó hEadhra & Fionnag NicChoinnich

With guitarist Brian Ó hEadhra hailing from Newfoundland (via Dublin) and NicChoinnich from Scotland’s Isle of Lewis, the duo’s third...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021

Tall Tales

Ringlefinch

When there are seven instrumentalists on stage, and a simmering energy bubbling beneath their fingers, it must be difficult for...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021

OberTany

Zawierucha

Zawierucha are a new Polish folk band whose name translates as ‘Turmoil/Storm’. With two violins, double bass and a drum...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021