Reviews
Ritual
For her sixth album. Spanish performer, composer and music producer Ana Alcaide offers what she describes as a ‘hymn to...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Overheard
Birdsong features on a range of recent folk-inflected albums – our avian friends are the exotic new back-ups (although solo...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Throisma
This is the second solo album from Monsieur Doumani’s Antonis Antoniou, and like the previous Kkismettin it’s a corker. It...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Couteau / Haute Forme
Super Parquet command the confluence of Auvergnat folk, art and club music, creating their own unique sound flow. This follow-up...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Relentless
Kyle Warren spent a decade working on this set of new tunes. Ten years on from his debut, Wanted, the...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
The Great Irish Famine
Ronan Kealy, aka Junior Brother, from County Kerry, was hailed The Irish Times’ Best Irish Act 2019, when his debut,...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Frey
Hot on the heels of the release of Solana’s Mirage (reviewed in June 2022, #178) comes this haunting solo album...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Hundinuiaõis/Bulrush Bloom
From Estonia, Eva Väljaots plays the kannel, one of the plucked zither-like instruments shared by the Finno-Ugric cultures around the...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Rade
The adventurous Valencia-based Sardinian composer sets sails navigating on Mediterranean routes after his critically-admired album Jar’a, which appeared to be...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
