Reviews

Nattflykt

Hansan

Floating with vulnerability and enchantment, this Swedish and German duo follow both jazz and folk influences to provide us with...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

TMSA Young Trad Tour 2019

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Each year, the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year’s six finalists form a band with the previous...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

NOU?

Mascarimiri

How does a region’s traditional music survive its own commercial success? Apparently overwhelmed by the touristic boom of pizzica, Apulian...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Mysteries Unfold

Sophie Tassignon

Take a deep breath before playing Tassignon’s solo debut Mysteries Unfold, the waters run deep ahead. After several decades working...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Wrackline

Fay Hield

Fay Hield has a fine pedigree as a solo artist, with her previous album, 2016’s Old Adam, taking a deep...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Landskein

Lauren MacColl

Lauren MacColl is one of Scotland’s finest fiddlers. Her latest album’s title, Landskein, loosely means ‘Thread’ and it is in...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Receiver

The Rheingans Sisters

Receiver begins with a fiddle drone, as if this has been going on already and you have happened upon it....

Reviewed in issue November/2020

The Night Out

Monkey See Monkey Do

The Night Out is the debut album of this Southampton-based quartet, whose music is firmly rooted in the English and...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Ikivirta

Sarah Palu

Finnish-French composer Sarah Palu chose to release this, her debut, as a download code hidden within a bar of vegan...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

The Haar

The Haar

Fiddler Adam Summerhayes and percussionist Cormac Byrne are a prolific pair. In #148, I wrote about their new outfit Dodo...

Reviewed in issue November/2020