Reviews
Sharatin
Ensemble Marani are an award-winning group of vocalists singing Georgian polyphony who have been active for over 30 years. They...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
fygame
Cultural borders are a lot older, and more cloudy, than geo-political, linguistic and ethnic borders, and this recording demonstrates that...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Urban Myths
Swiss/English/Ashkenazi/Sephardic violinist Marc Crofts and his Klezmer Ensemble made up of clarinet, accordion and double bass make for the classic...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Seeds Are Sewing
Listening to this on the day the UK Supreme Court stripped trans people of their rights was bittersweet. Alex Etchart’s...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Songs for the Trees
A rich and deeply mytho-poetic set of 13 songs drawing on Ogham (the Druidic ‘tree alphabet’) and evoking some of...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Sing Yonder 2
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Following 2023’s excellent debut collection, Sing Yonder 2 presents a second superb collection of songs (11–20) from the Roud Index,...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Forefowk, Mind Me
Scots is one of three official languages north of the border, along with English and Gaelic, and it is in...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Maa palaa
This is renowned Finnish singer, fiddle player and jouhikko (bowed lyre) virtuoso Päivi Hirvonen’s third solo album away from the...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Turnstone
A turnstone is a wading bird that upends pebbles to feed on what it finds beneath. It’s a fitting title...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Elkwort
Nottingham-based Ben McElroy’s Elkwort summons up an atmospheric, filmic soundscape. This cinematic quality is echoed in the inclusion of an...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
