Reviews

Where I Come From

Christy Moore

If music provides a map of a nation's soul, then Ireland's foremost troubadour, Christy Moore, is a formidable cartographer.There's a...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

The Rough Guide to Scottish Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Compiled by broadcaster and singer Mary Ann Kennedy, this latest compilation illustrates the rich variety of the crop of Scottish...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

The Brightest Path

Patsy Reid

Patsy Reid is an in-demand fiddler who's been heard with Breabach, Kathryn Tickell and The Treacherous Orchestra, among others. She...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

Lampascioni e Cianfrusaglie

Le Tre Sorelle

Le Tre Sorelle (the Three Sisters) are a young female trio of singers and multiinstrumentalists, who are not actually sisters....

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

Harponium

Catriona McKay

Scottish harper Catriona McKay says that with her latest album she is ‘fusing the timbres of harp and harmonium into...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

Eastern Moon Rising

Boris Kovac & La Campanella

Serbian sax player Kovač is fond of wearing an incandescent pink suit. It's perhaps not the garb you'd expect: there...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

Drawing in an Almond

Katerina Papadopoulou

Greek singer Katerina Papadopoulou was previously unknown to me, but due diligence proves it's been my oversight. This album was...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014

Tuneship

Daimh

Daimh have long been regarded as one of the most exciting Gaelic bands on the live scene. Tuneship sees the...

Reviewed in issue March/2014

The Cauld Wind

Chris Stout & Finlay MacDonald

Contrary to what you might imagine, the duo of Chris Stout and Finlay MacDonald have not taken their album title...

Reviewed in issue March/2014

Urlar

Breabach

Recently voted live act of the year at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards, Breabach have established themselves as...

Reviewed in issue March/2014