Reviews

Astar

Breabach

Astar, meaning distance or journey, is a fitting title for Breabach's new album. Incorporating influences, and guests, from all around...

Reviewed in issue May/2016

How the City Sings

Sam Carter

Sam Carter is a brilliant guitarist and songwriter who combines the observational with social comment and personal reflection. He has...

Reviewed in issue May/2016

These Mountain Blues

Norrie McCulloch

His name might sound as Scottish as oatcakes, single malt whisky, heather or tossing the caber, but that doesn’t mean...

Reviewed in issue May/2016

Behind the Glass

The Fair Rain

Followers of British folk may know The Fair Rain as The Old Dance School. The septet led by singer-songwriter Robin...

Reviewed in issue May/2016

In Tune with the Wolves

Riikka

Finnish singer Riikka Timonen has a stunningly beautiful voice, and that is the strength of In Tune with the Wolves....

Reviewed in issue May/2016

Dansing

Tęgie Chłopy

Tęgie Chłopy are a new band that's gathered around veteran saxophone and clarinet player Stanisław Witkowski. Born in 1934, Witkowski...

Reviewed in issue May/2016

Of What We Spoke

Threaded

Threaded are a classically trained English folk trio from the Midlands and this beautifully designed CD is their first release....

Reviewed in issue May/2016

Old Adam

Fay Hield

Hield's third album follows the success of The Full English project, and while the previous Looking Glass and Orfeo explored...

Reviewed in issue May/2016

Why the Mountains are Black: Primeval Greek Village Music 1907-1960

VARIOUS ARTISTS

In early 1980s Epirus (Greece), I learned of a University of Washington musicologist engaged in fieldwork for a PhD on...

Reviewed in issue May/2016

Bedlam

Kelly Oliver

Kelly Oliver is a musician growing in ambition and confidence. Her first album This Land was very much a solo...

Reviewed in issue May/2016