Reviews
The Bend in the Light
Hailing from K’jipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia, classically trained Ellen Gibling’s keen interest in Irish traditional music is given free rein...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Nick Harts Sings Ten English Folk Songs
The third studio album from folk singer Nick Hart will ring a bell. With dry humour, he is totting up...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Nine Waves
For their second album on the excellent River Lea label, Diarmuid and Brían Mac Gloinn, aka Ye Vagabonds, are joined...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Canzuni
Canzuni is a fine assortment of southern Italian folk songs. Calabria-born but a long-time resident of Naples, Ferrante is a...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Roraima
Sigurd Hole’s previous album was a solo double bass exploration into the environment and atmospheres of his native Norway. Now...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Hugnad
Olav Luksengård Mjelva is the Norwegian member of the Norwegian/Swedish/Shetland trio the Nordic Fiddlers Bloc. An award-winning composer and sought-after...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Ink of the Rosy Morning
Like a number of albums released this year, the root story behind the Cambridge duo’s debut for Topic Records is...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Alchemy
The fun and engaging new album from the indie-folk band finds them celebrating their tenth anniversary by returning to their...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Till Skogen
Climate change, pandemics, wars… there’s an urgent need to raise people’s spirits, so the joy and optimism of Kolonien’s Till...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
