Reviews
Langt, Langt Vekk
Ævestaden are known for their delicate, hypnotic folktronica. Fellow Norwegians Kanaan are a psychedelic rock trio. That the two bands...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Arcs & Rivers
Joel Lyssarides & Georgios Prokopiou
I’ve encountered the bouzouki in a number of different contexts: rebetika, laïko, Irish traditional music and various eastern-Mediterranean crossover ensembles,...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996
American label Light in the Attic, which specialises in publishing rare music, now release a compilation of Ukrainian music from...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Volume Two
Scottish acoustic guitarist Will McNicol’s first collaboration with the Innotet string quartet was lauded by Classic FM and its successor...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Trioliadam
This collection of traditional Norwegian tunes was originally recorded in 1981. The results were never released, the master tapes lost,...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Talassa
After 25 years of researching and performing traditional music from Salento and Apulia, Italy, singer-songwriter Dario Muci releases his first...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Outside Time
The thrilling Tarren return with their second album (after 2022's Revel) with an equally stimulating take on traditional English folk...
Reviewed in issue November/2024
A Thousand Pokes
‘Pokes’ were typos to 14th-century scribes, and it's the rough music of a mistaken world, poked through with holes, that's...
Reviewed in issue November/2024
Traditional Singing from Dublin
Macdara Yeates has played no small part in platforming a new generation of Irish folk singers via his stewardship of...
Reviewed in issue November/2024
Start Close In
You would expect from The Rheingans Sisters, Rowan and Anna, the assertion of female autonomy, and ‘Devils’, their take on...
Reviewed in issue November/2024
