Reviews

Wiązanka

WoWaKin

The opening track of Wiązanka (The Bunch) launches us straight into a wild mazurka in the spirit of a rural...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Riddle Songs

Stef Conner

We know from poems such as Beowulf, which mentions warriors singing praise songs, and Caedmon's ‘Hymn’, a divine inspired song,...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Bellanöva

Bellanöva

The Four Provinces is an area pertaining to four distinct administrative subdivisions located in four different Italian regions (Lombardy, Piedmont,...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

In Which

The Teacups

Alex Cumming, Kate Locksley, Rosie Calvert and Will Finn met in 2010 on the Folk and Traditional Music degree course...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

When the Sun Goes In

Simon Robinson

After touring extensively for 12 years with the band Maia, Robinson has recently preferred to explore the more traditional roots...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Klezmer from the New World

Susi Evans & Szilvia Csaranko

This is a clarinet and accordion duo, Susi Evans being one of the best klezmer clarinettists of our day, playing...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Still Time

Karen Matheson

Karen Matheson returns after five years to prove she still deserves her place among Scottish Folk Royalty – along, of...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Trovaores

Antonio Placer Sextet & Antonio Campos

Antonio Placer is a Galician singer, poet and songwriter who describes himself as ‘exiled’ in France. Trovaores, his latest release...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Skiver

Folkatron Sessions

These sessions – ‘eight musicians, seven days, one experimental folk album from scratch’ – feature a welcomely eclectic mix of...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Cretan Smash

Balothizer

Greek folk tales set to thrash metal ‘music from hell’ (that’s how their fans, not their critics, describe them) may...

Reviewed in issue January/2021