Reviews
Where the World is Thin
Kris Drever’s solo albums don’t come that often – 2010’s Mark the Hard Earth was followed six years later by...
Reviewed in issue January/2021
Barely Ann-Mari
Peacemaker is a successful Finnish TV series starring Finnish singer and actress Irina Björklund in the leading role of Ann-Mari...
Reviewed in issue January/2021
These Feral Lands Vol 1
Laura Cannell & Stewart Lee & Friends
The music is typical Laura Cannell: open, chordal (lots of over-bowed violin), improvised. It’s the presence of Stewart Lee on...
Reviewed in issue January/2021
Le Chat Brel
French violinist Gabriel Bismut met Italian accordion player Maurizio Minardi while playing jazz in Paris four years ago. They discovered...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
An tSLí
Bernard O’Neill has an impressive history. A classically-trained pianist and cellist, he has played double bass for the likes of...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Do Coração
Last year, we praised Sara Correia’s first adult album (she had released a previous one in her adolescence) as a...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Stopy
In the last decades, the living folk traditions of Eastern Europe have changed from traditional to revival. The Michal Noga...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
First Steps
Fiddler Martin Clarke and melodeon player Will Allen are Brown Boots, fine players and purveyors of trad dance tunes –...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Vikings Memories
SKÁLD take their name from the Norse balladeers who told tales of gods and men in the medieval past. The...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
