Reviews

Saar

Estbel

This quartet could be said to be a kind of quintet, their phantom fifth member being the Baltic island of...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Matilda

Pekko Käppi & K:H:H:L

The jouhikko (ancient Finnish bowed lyre) has a unique place in the mysterious histories of Finland and Karelia, and its...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Stand & Deliver

Pilgrims’ Way

Pilgrims’ Way have had something of a chequered history. In 2011, the trio of singer Lucy Wright, fiddle player Tom...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Nordic Notes #100: Great Tunes from Scandinavia

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Nordic Notes is a German record label with a passion for the music of northern Europe and Finland in particular....

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Follow Them True

Stick in the Wheel

Anyone who has seen Stick in the Wheel live recently will know just what a diamond-hard machine they have become....

Reviewed in issue March/2018

C'est Le Pompon

Topette!!

This new acoustic dance band announce their intention not just in the title of their first CD – C'est Le...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Ol'Jansa

Göran Månsson & Friends

Olof Jönsson also known fondly as Ol'Jansa, was a Swedish flute player from Härjedalen in the centre of Sweden, born...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Ar Baradoz: Sacred Songs of Lower Brittany

Yann-Fañch Kemener, Florence Rousseau & Aldo Ripoche

The Breton music most familiar to us tends to be forthright: bagpipe bands, the talabard (bombard) or choirs singing lustily....

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Hoolima

Curly Strings

The allure of bluegrass, from its early beginnings in Kentucky, has spread far and wide, leaving its influence in many...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Shakespeare Songs

The Company of Players

Opening with an a capella version of the witches’ curses, spells and premonitions from the murky first scene of Macbeth...

Reviewed in issue March/2018