Reviews
Wavelength
Bene & Cormac are Glaswegian fiddler Benedict Morris, newly anointed as BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician of the Year,...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Gwyn Glân Beibl Budr
Gwyn Glân Beibl Budr opens with ‘Myn Mair’, a prayer that is at least 500 years old, sung on the...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Leaves That Fly
Leaves That Fly is the debut album from Glasgow-based Kim Richards and a beautiful and heartfelt release it is too....
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Grad Gori!
For some years singer Brina Vogelnik has headed one of Slovenia's most popular neo-folk bands, Brina, mixing folklore with a...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Òran Bagraidh
This is a piece of musical archaeology. It feels like you are hearing sounds and words from the distant past....
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Here Come the Young
A veteran singer-songwriter and activist, Joseph has purveyed social and protest songs since his first studio release in 1983. The...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Thrace: The Paths of Dionysus
The Rodopi Ensemble, comprising violin, clarinet, kanun, assorted percussion and lute plus vocals, was formed during the 1990s in this...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Owerset
Surrounded by the bowed drones of Bridget Marsden's fiddle, Leif Ottosson's accordion and Morten Kvam's double bass, Sarah-Jane Summers' fiddle...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Constant Companion
Cunning folk were – are – people of wisdom, practitioners of folk medicine and magic. Here, though, Cunning Folk is...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Unfurl
Flora Curzon (violin) and Francesca Ter-Berg (cello) demonstrate a symbiotic musical relationship in this at times remarkable debut album. The...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
