Reviews
Inventory
A decade after forming for a one-off concert at the 2014 Vieilles Charrues Festival, The Celtic Social Club marks a...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
New Music for the Harp of Avalon
New Music for the Harp of Avalon is the latest release from Brighton-based musician and producer Fane. Where Fane’s previous...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Sacred Harmony
Thanasis Kleopas, Theodore Koumartzis & Jordan Koumartzis
Evocative, tender and uplifting, this lovely collaboration between brothers Theodore and Jordan Koumartzis and Thanasis Kleopas harnesses the spirit of...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Vinde Todas
Carme López Fernández has been studying and working on gender roles in Galicia’s musical tradition. Vinde Todas, her debut album...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Slavic Folk Songs
Ansis Bētiņš and Artūrs Čukurs, like almost every other Latvian, grew up surrounded by folk songs. No wonder they developed...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Return to Kielderside
When she was 16 Kathryn Tickell borrowed a tape recorder and spent a weekend in her parents’ kitchen with friends...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Qui Omple Un Estadi No És Pas Un Graller
Trèvol present themselves as a young quartet picking on traditional instruments and repertoire, while inserting jazz, pop and folk elements....
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Undergrowth
This is the fifth album as leader by the Oslo-based trumpeter, who has long been a fixture on the Norwegian...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Cold Blows the Rain
Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions
This is a good period for ethereal and weird folk and traditional music, with acts like Milkweed seeing their idiosyncratic...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Jean Claude Vannier Et Son Orchestre de Mandolines
Jean Claude Vannier Et Son Orchestre de Mandolines
Now here’s an unusual, quirky and charming instrumental set from a French composer with a deserved cult following in the...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
