Reviews
Gryningsland
This Swedish-Finnish trio's name is their mission statement: they enliven the Nordic folk canon with avant-garde influences, finding a pleasing...
Reviewed in issue April/2018
Fel Az Úton
My favourite band at this year's Budapest Ritmo festival was this young quintet, based in Budapest, with a distinctly Balkan...
Reviewed in issue March/2018
If I Had the Strength
I'd never considered that Gogol Bordello might be popular in Canada, but Canadian band Lemon Bucket Orkestra prove that the...
Reviewed in issue March/2018
Lysning
Nils Økland has a characteristic so often found in Norwegian music, a combination of humility and determination. He has had...
Reviewed in issue March/2018
Songs My Ruiner Gave to Me: Concerning Love, Madness & Obsession
Bedford's 2011 album, Tales from the Weeping Willow, focused on the former Orbital singer's penchant for folk and country, featuring...
Reviewed in issue March/2018
Makhorka
Formed in 1998 in France by a trio of buskers from St Petersburg, Russia, Dobranotch originally played Irish music. Perhaps...
Reviewed in issue March/2018
Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine
Fear and flight marked Ireland in the 1840s, when a series of famines laid low the island with devastating consequences....
Reviewed in issue March/2018
Beránci a Vlci
This ambitious recording originates in a show put on at the Folk Holidays Festival in the Czech Republic. It brings...
Reviewed in issue March/2018
Kroke 25: The Best Of
The Polish trio Kroke celebrated their 25th anniversary in 2017. Kroke is the Yiddish name for Kraków, which was a...
Reviewed in issue March/2018
