Reviews
Flying into Mystery
Bowed but definitely not beaten by pandemic isolation, Moore responds with one of his finest offerings in years. Flying into...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Andy Irvine/Paul Brady
Not quite the first reissue as claimed by publicity (a 2008 CD having beaten it to the punch), but a...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Treacle & Bread
On the sleeve of this marvellous album there’s a picture of Rod Stradling playing his melodeon and beaming. He’s smiling...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Valge Valgus
Flanders-born accordionist Hartwin Dhoore has been intimately involved with some of the most innovative and entertaining traditional-inspired music to emerge...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
A la Manera Artesana
Spanish folk has a quality perfect for our times: the ability to wail, complain and lament and, at the same...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
The Castalia
Edinburgh based fiddler Ratcliff’s beguiling debut is an evocative blend of traditional music cultures of Cape Breton, New Brunswick and...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Solo
Ekborg’s role in the Swedish folk scene is as soloist as well as being part of the popular ensemble Northern...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Odyssey
Fourth Moon was formed out of a session at Ireland’s Willie Clancy Festival in 2014 by four musicians from right...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Hjemve: Vocal Music from Folldal
How can you not fall for an opening track which begins with the words ‘Bom-bom, bom-bom, didde-lidde-lei’? It dances, carefree,...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Tous les Parfums
Solia (Sun) is Raquel Gigot (accordion) and Marielle Vancamp (nyckelharpa) from Belgium. The duo’s debut digs into the repertoire of...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
