Reviews
Tudat Alatt
Soma Salamon is a folk music researcher and performer specialising in traditional flutes. He’s played with a number of bands...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
A Curious Compendium of Crooked Irish Tunes Vol 1
It’s safe to say that Dr Dave Flynn is something of an iconoclast. The composer and guitarist behind the Irish...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Wild Wet World
Sheldrake’s previous album was the excellent Wake Up Calls, featuring music and sound set to birdsong, in order to ‘help...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Irish Rock’n’Roll
‘Well here I am from Paddy’s Land,’ sings Charles Hendy in the opening line of ‘The Bauld O’Donoghue’, the first...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Sur Mon Dos
Like Manu Chao, Matjé is a musical voyager, who took his artist’s name from the Creole word ‘to write’. The...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Unheard Landscapes
Haapoja is a Helsinki-based producer and includes one of Finland’s current favourite bands, Okra Playground, among his credits. On Unheard...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Hämärä
If you see the name Eero Grundström (Sväng, Suistamon Sähkö) on any release, go for it. It’ll be a bit...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Avant Folk Triptyk
Norwegian accordionist Frode Haltli’s third Avant Folk outing has a change of record label, from Hubro to Jazzland, retaining a...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Pod Obločkom
Ondrej Druga is a Slovakian accordionist and he and his ‘friends’ are devotees of the richest area of folk music...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Mãe
Cristina Branco has always been a bit reluctant to call herself a fadista. And it is not hard to understand...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
