Reviews
Chłopi: Wesele Boryny
This is an extraordinary album recreating the sound of a wedding in central Poland in the late 19th century. The...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
The Wedding Above in Glencree
Since deciding to become a musician after seeing Christy Moore perform on Irish TV and then cutting his teeth as...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Legado de Carlos Paredes ao Mosteiro dos Jerónimos
If you are familiar with Portuguese guitar, you should have by now come across the names of Artur and Carlos...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Meuseucca Servadze
From Piedmont Teres Aoutes (Piedmont Highlands) comes this fresh force in Italian folk music. Made up of singer and mandolinist...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
North Cape
The name Nic Zuppardi may be unfamiliar but this master of the mandolin has, for over a decade, been part...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Renaissance
Tonino Baliardo, one of the founding members of Gipsy Kings, is back with his first album in more than eight...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Despite the Wind and Rain
Despite the Wind and Rain is the first album from the duo of Gaelic singer-pianist Rachel Walker and singer and...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Fiddle Tunes
Elise Boeur & Adam Iredale-Gray
This album's modest title reflects the pure reverence, unmitigated by contemporised showiness, with which these instrumentalists approach music from Ireland,...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Que-vive!
Compagnie Rassegna are a band based in the south of France, led by guitarist Bruno Allary. They are also involved...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Polaris
Turin-dwelling musicians of southern Italian descent (Oreste Forestieri, Franco Montanaro and Valeria Quarta), delve into traditional forms from the southern...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
