Reviews
Rise
A music teacher and luthier, as well as a songwriter based in Portsmouth and with roots in Merthyr, South Wales,...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
We Are Each Other, This Will Set Us Free
The debut album from Bristol-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist boci covers a lot of ground musically, yet is rooted in...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Do Claro ao Breu
Sopa de Pedra are a Portuguese vocal ten-piece that got together ten years ago – which some may know already...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Sê
It’s never easy when someone, unable to fight destiny picks up on the same craft their parents excelled...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Lustuz Laþu Wōþuz Alu
Nordic and Viking culture is currently enjoying a resurgence, not least with the release of big-budget film, The Northman. Which...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Tobar an Cheoil
Two of the purest voices in Irish traditional music – the harp and the flute – combine to beguiling effect on...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
The Youth That Belonged to Miltown
Marian Curtin & Therese McInerney
Nestled on the rugged Atlantic coastline of County Clare, Miltown Malbay has produced poets, politicians (an Irish president among them)...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
One and All
Forget the lockdown postman and shanty TikTok craze, haul away and pass round the grog, open your gullet and get...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Nova
For his first solo album in nine years Apneseth, one of Norway’s most thrilling Hardanger fiddle players, chose to record...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
