Reviews

Many a Thousand

Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith

This third studio album from the Norfolk-born folk duo follows their impressive 2016 release, Night Hours. It contains all the...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Destination: Fellside Recordings 1976-2018

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The label Fellside has been a significant force in independent folk music recording for 42 years, with more than 600...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Sväng Plays Tango

Sväng

Finnish tango is a serious business. For over 100 years now it has spoken of melancholy, heartbreak and gloom. But...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

When All is Still

Rachael McShane & The Cartographers

‘The Molecatcher’, the first track of Rachael McShane's terrific album with her new band, The Cartographers, sets the tenor of...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

France, Gascony: The Bagpipes of the Moorlands

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The Gascony moorlands, a region of flat, isolated, humid grassland stretching from Bordeaux down to the start of the Basque...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

EnCantado

Carolina

Twenty years ago, it would have been impossible to predict that there would be such a surge of young fado...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Ten Thousand Miles

Danú

Despite several line-up changes across more than two decades together, Danú, guided by button accordionist co-founder Benny McCarthy, has managed...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Človek ni Zver

Katalena

War never changes, so they say, and this collection of songs assembled around the theme of war and its victims...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Hjeltamôs

Per Gudmundson & Bengan Janson

A crackling fire under a summer sky, dried flowers on a windowsill, a wistful smile and the coolness of grass...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Songhive: Beelore & Folksong in the British Isles

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Folk music often has a special relationship with the native flora and fauna of the land from which it springs....

Reviewed in issue October/2018