Reviews

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

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