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As well as his years with Lau – five studio albums and numerous live sets – Drever has had an...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
The Devil's on the Mast
The Ciderhouse Rebellion & Kirsty Merryn
The prolific folk duo, fiddler Adam Summerhayes and accordionist Murray Grainger, have joined forces on their latest release with singer...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay
There's an almost timeless, specifically British strain of pastoralism conjured on this second collaboration between acoustic guitarists Jim Ghedi (six-string)...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Medna Roso
PJEV, Kit Downes & Hayden Chisholm
This is the kind of inter-cultural collaboration I can get into. Too often, such projects are the mooncalves of questions...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
The World and All That It Holds
There are some critics out there – and I am not one – who maintain that Damir Imamović is heir...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Octophilia
KermesZ à l’Est are extraordinary mash-up merchants. Their name is invented to sound Eastern European and the eight-piece Belgian band...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Bring It On
Estonia's folk music is noted for its lyrical richness and depth of local and national feeling, rather than for highly...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Before I Knew What Had Begun I Had Already Lost
For Jon Wilks’ fourth album he has broadened the sonic palette of 2021's spare Up the Cut, adding Jackie Oates’...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Itkuja Suite: Invocations on Lament
The itku lamentations of eastern Finland were originally performed at funerals and weddings, usually by women. This cathartic tradition developed...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
One Day
It's titled One Day because it took just that for the remarkable fiddle player Jenna Reid to record this exquisite...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
