Reviews

Seaspeak

Joe Danks

Appropriately recorded at The Queen’s House in Greenwich, the Derbyshire-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Danks’ debut is a maritime theme...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Høyre du, Mann! Langeleikopptak 1955-83

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The National Library of Norway is extremely good at archiving historical recordings and making their collections available for wider listening....

Reviewed in issue July/2021

European Howl

Agent Starling

Agent Starling is an unusual duo, a pairing of hurdy-gurdy player Quentin Budworth with Louise Duffy-Howard (aka Lou Loudhailer). Back...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Spirit of Love

COB

COB is the abbreviation of Clive’s Original Band though Cob, as the trio was sometimes called, is apt. Cob is...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Hunter

Christina Alden & Alex Patterson

Locked down doesn’t mean imaginations are locked up. In Hunter, song inspiration is global, despite being set down and sung...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Staran

Staran

Meaning ‘Path’ in Gaelic, Staran are a new five-piece consisting of a considered collective of musicians. Featuring Kim Carnie on...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Notes For a Maiden Warrior

Dani Larkin

Borders run through Dani Larkin’s life and work. A native of the Armagh/ Monaghan borderlands, she has worked in peace-building...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Live at Tou

Angrusori

A few years ago a group of musicians from the Slovakian Roma community came together with a group of musicians...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Petrichor

Paul Hutchinson

Accordionist Paul Hutchinson, of Belshazzar’s Feast and The Pagoda Project, is a well-known and highly-regarded figure on the folk scene,...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

My Last Song: A Tribute to Macedonia’s Gypsy Queen

Esma Redžepova and Nune Brothers

As the title suggests, this album contains the last recordings of extraordinary North Macedonian vocalist Esma Redžepova, recorded in 2016...

Reviewed in issue July/2021