Reviews
Hárr
In previous recordings, international performances, and her 2019 book To Be Nothing, Benedicte Maurseth has showcased the celestial beauty of the...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Ona
The title Ona means ‘She’ in Czech and it presents women’s songs from Tomáš Kočko’s homeland Moravia, the eastern region...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Róisín ReImagined
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and Irish Chamber Orchestra
Breathing new life into old, Róisín ReImagined takes the ancient tradition of sean nós singing, filters it through new arrangements...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Vulpus
Fusing folk fiddle and guitar with dance music, the Somerset duo celebrate ten years together with their fourth album, Vulpus....
Reviewed in issue June/2022
River of Dreams
There is something charmingly familiar and almost old fashioned about ex-Decameron guitarist Johnny Coppin’s River of Dreams that is evident...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Duo Vargoz
Re-exploring repertoires of oral tradition and rearranging them is a fairly common approach in the world of traditional music today....
Reviewed in issue June/2022
30: Happy Returns
To celebrate 30 years as a performing musician Kate Rusby has selected songs from her 18 previous albums and recorded...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
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
