Reviews

Kvitravn

Wardruna

Wardruna’s stirring fifth album sounds like it could be the dramatic soundtrack to a Viking movie – and with good...

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

Gabriel Bismut

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

An tSLí Project

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

Sara Correia

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

Michal Noga Band

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

Brown Boots

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

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

Faerie Fire Dances

Marc Block

Marc Block has been on the folk scene since the mid-1980s, a self-described ‘rootsy Radical Faerie singer of original and...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Meeting

AGA Trio

As travel becomes ever more constrained, transborder musical projects continue to flourish although the recent violent flare-up of the conflict...

Reviewed in issue December/2020