Reviews

Camin Sobiran

Aèdes

Listen casually to this latest release from the Pau-based label in South-West France and you might mistake its minimalism for...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

I Am of Ireland: Yeats in Song

VARIOUS ARTISTS

It’s been done before and often, but never with such silken, seductive charm as here. Readily lending themselves to music,...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Spanish Roots

Return Trip

Spanish Roots is the second album in Martin Richardson’s Return Trip project, which celebrates the myriad styles that have influenced...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Yedi Kedi

Balamuc

Hailing from Eastern Europe and elsewhere, the members of Balamuc joined forces in London where they have produced this musical...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021

Minka

Eva Quartet

The Eva Quartet are undoubtedly the finest current exponents of small group vocal music by Bulgarian composers and arrangers, rooted...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021

The Old Fabled River

Alasdair Roberts og Völvur

For this project, Alasdair Roberts was invited by fiddler Hans Kjorstad to Oslo to reinterpret songs from Roberts’ back catalogue...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021

Slåttesong

Erlend Apneseth & Margit Myhr

“It’s great to be at a point where it’s the music that’s in focus and not where it comes from.”...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021

Devil’s Fiddle

Cezary Duchnowski & Radical Polish Ansambl

The idea of fiddlers selling their soul to the devil for special musical gifts or being linked to the supernatural...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021

The Orcadians of Hudson Bay

Graham Rorie

Premiered at Celtic Connections 2020, this evocative project grew out of the fascination of Orkney-born musician and composer Graham Rorie...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021

Embruxo

Baiuca

Galician producer Baiuca (aka Alejandro Guillán) does ‘folktronics,’ blending his native traditional music with the ambient and dance electronica of...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021