Reviews

Tirade

Eddie & Luc

First performing together during a packed session in Glasgow in 2013, Eddie Seaman (pipes, whistle and bouzouki) and Luc McNalty...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Kind of Folk: Vol 1 Sweden

Groupa

Mysterious flutes beckon us into a forest. A haunting fiddle beguiles us with tunes from an age gone by. A...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Tules Maas Vedes Taivaal

Tuuletar

This is the debut recording of one of Finland's most dynamic new groups. The four young women who comprise Tuuletar...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Voices of Ashkenaz

Voices of Ashkenaz

This is a fascinating recording that evolved out of the Yiddish Summer Weimar festival, which unites serious Jewish music research...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Afterlight

Ímar

Glasgow-based Ímar are named after a ninth-century king who ruled over Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man – which...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

The Moon We Watch is the Same

Floating Sofa Quartet

Not long after meeting as music students at 2013's Nordtrad conference, these four young folk musicians from Denmark, Finland and...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Varieties

Alma

Varieties opens with music that straddles British folk and baroque dance, before moving off in a very different direction: a...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Tördelős

Dresch Quartet

Sax and flute player Mihály Dresch is the leading figure in Magyar jazz and he formed his first quartet in...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Gatehouse

Tús Nua

Meaning ‘New Beginnings’, Tús Nua are an aptly named quartet, as they step onto the traditional scene for the first...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

The musicians of Brittany and Ireland have long held each other in high musical esteem and nowhere is this admiration...

Reviewed in issue April/2017