Reviews

Mielo

Maria Kalaniemi & Eero Grundström

It's hard to get beyond the first track ‘Erämorsian’ (Wildwood Bride). I play it again and again, caught up in...

Reviewed in issue July/2020

Through That Sound (My Secret Was Made Known)

Eliza Carthy and Ben Seal

A seagull's head on dancer's legs – not at all disturbing or Hieronymous Bosch-like – is artist Kirsty Whiten's cover...

Reviewed in issue July/2020

Say It

Dantchev:Domain

You can imagine a film to go with this album: vast, sweeping landscapes, travellers in the mist, and among these...

Reviewed in issue July/2020

Kistvaen

Calan

The title of the fifth album from one of Wales’ most talked about folk bands means ‘Burial Chamber’ and is...

Reviewed in issue July/2020

Fortuna

Amsterdam Klezmer Band

For a band that makes the bold claim to being ‘the one and only’ Amsterdam Klezmer Band, the outfit has...

Reviewed in issue July/2020

Cumulus Spores

Ana Kravanja & Samo Kutin

Masters of reimagined improvised music, Ana Kravanja and Samo Kutin might be better known for their excellent work as Širom...

Reviewed in issue July/2020

I Used to Be Sad & Then I Forgot

Mr Alec Bowman

Professional photographer-turned-singer-songwriter Mr Alec Bowman may have swapped the darkroom for the recording studio but it still doesn't seem to...

Reviewed in issue July/2020

303

Three Cane Whale

Combine the following ingredients – trumpet, guitar, mandolin, banjo, lute harp, lyre harp, dulcitone, chimes, cornet and bowed psaltery –...

Reviewed in issue July/2020

About Land

Mira Pardelha

Mira Pardelha's story starts in 1998 when Canadian musicians Jason Breckenridge and Ian Brimacombe were flatmates in Lisbon and first...

Reviewed in issue July/2020

Tall Tales in Tiny Pieces

Tailcoat

Tailcoat are my new favourite band. Tall Tales in Tiny Pieces is the debut album from this Danish/Swedish five-piece who...

Reviewed in issue July/2020