Reviews
Jūrėse
With its New Agey, Celtic feel, at times Jūrėse (meaning ‘In the Lagoon’, referencing his home region) sounds almost like...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2020
The Livelong Day
The outstanding ten minutes of ‘The Wild Rover’ dominates this third album from Ireland's most significant band. Drawing on the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2020
Steer by the Stars
As one of the strongest live acts on the trad scene for the last couple of decades, and following the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2020
Alegrià e Libertà
Lucilla Galeazzi, Didier Laloy, Ialma, Carlo Rizzo and Maarten Decombel
This feels like a convivial affair – a motley group of musicians coming together, jamming, finding they get along really...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2020
Egeland Edén Marin Vol 1
Ånon Egeland, Mats Edén & Mikael Marin
It's hard to believe that three of Scandinavia's most outstanding folk musicians are together here as a trio for the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2020
Tabhair Mo Ghrá Go Conamara (Bring My Love to Connemara)
I doubt there will be a more evocative, or valuable, Irish traditional music disc released this year than this spellbinding...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2020
Sir Fôn Bach
Llio Rhydderch was moved to arrange ‘Anhawdd Ymadael’, the penultimate tune of this very beautiful album, because the elegy ‘Marwnad...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Pura Vida (Banda Sonora)
Mísia was integral to the new wave of fadistas in the 1990s, helping to revitalise the genre with new influences,...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
