Reviews

Under the Rose Tree

Derya Türkan & Sokratis Sinopoulos

As a disciple of Ross Daly and a player of the lyra (bowed lute) Sokratis Sinopoulos was always going to...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Notes from the Boat

Mike Vass

It's an incredible line-up that Mike Vass has gathered for his latest album, with guests including Anna Massie, Duncan Chisholm,...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Cas

Lúnasa

Cas has several meanings in Irish: to turn, to twist, and to sing being among them. All are apt terms...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Somewhere

Dowally

Comprising Rachel Walker on fiddle and whistle, Phil Alexander on accordion and piano and Daniel Abrahams on guitar and double...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Young Waters

Young Waters

Young Waters are led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Theo Passington with a trio of string players – violin, viola...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Turas 1980

Clannad

Banish all thoughts of the New Age-accented, ambient-washed sound that made Clannad a crossover phenomenon following the attention-grabbing success of...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Fen, Farm & Deadly Water

The Shackleton Trio

As intimated by the title of this fresh second album, the Fens – the marshy region in Eastern England with...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

An Introduction to Martin Carthy

Martin Carthy

One of the jewels in Topic's vast catalogue has to be the work of Martin Carthy, one of the colossi...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Alku: The Beginning

Päivi Hirvonen

Violin, voice and jouhikko (Finnish bowed lyre) make for a powerful combination in this solo album from Päivi Hirvonen, who...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Folk Music from Transylvania, Then and Now

Ágnes Herczku

The revival of authentic Transylvanian music was central to the Hungarian táncház (dance house) movement in the 1980s and 90s....

Reviewed in issue October/2018