Reviews
Songs of the Rising Sun
WSPAK is Polish duo Adrianna (Ada) Kafel-Woźniak and Aleksandra (Ola) Pura-Cidyło from Białystok in the north-east of the country. They...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
End of the Middle
Richard Dawson’s ability to squeeze complex multi-character storytelling into stripped-back folk songs has seen the Newcastle native earn the title...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Slåtter på Kontrabass
The title is simple – Folk Tunes for Double Bass – but the concept is not. For solo double bass…...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Lükata-Tõmmata, Hargiga-Roobiga
Jaan Rand / Katariin Raska, Leanne Barbo & Natali Ponetajev
Jaan Rand (1879–1944) was a versatile Estonian folk musician from Kirbla in western Estonia. A master of the jaw harp,...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Everybody Wants to Be Like Mary
Scottish folk music is no stranger to electronica – going back to the original ‘techno piper’, the late Martyn Bennett...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
The Instruction Manual
I’d not heard a robotic choir before, and won’t hear one again based on The Instruction Manual’s self-titled debut album....
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
FOLKMOSIS
Beth Malcolm’s follow-up to her 2023 debut album, Kissed and Cried, presents a delightful musical triptych that takes the listener...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Väder
My first hearing of Väder was on Swedish Radio, the sound of a fiddle duo stopping me in my tracks...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
