Reviews

The Guesthouse Sessions

Naragonia

Lockdown has proved a rich creative experience for the Belgian bal folk duo, diatonic accordionists Pascale Rubens and Toon Van...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Alone on a Hill

Katy Rose Bennett

Katy Rose Bennett has been performing her Americana-tinged style of folk music for the best part of 20 years. She's...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Ritual

Nytt Land

Describing their music as shamanic dark folk, Nytt Land are a Siberian duo – Natasha ‘Baba Yaga’ Pakhalenko and Anatoly...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Aire!

Caamaño & Ameixeiras

Galicia in north-western Spain is a world apart, comparable perhaps to Dingle in Ireland. Folk music traditions are passed down...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Noninó

Aigua

Aigua is a duo formed of two contrasting life experiences: guitarist and singer Joan Peiró Aznar was born in Potríes,...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Naaljos Ljom

Naaljos Ljom

I like my Norwegian folk music with an earthy, gritty, dirt under the fingernails sort of sound. I wasn't expecting...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Atlântico

Fapy Lafertin New Quartet

Django lives! Or his legacy does anyway. Raised in a Belgian manouche community, where he learned the guitar as a...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Tobie

Dagadana

Dagadana’s fifth studio album should be given kudos as an attempt to provide ‘cheerfulness and generosity’ in our often gloomy,...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Iorram

Aidan O’Rourke

Iorram (Boat Song) begins with electro-washes of ambient sound, swooping back and forth, as if in the process of self...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Czary i Czarty

Wicher

With last issue’s Devil’s Fiddle album, the recent Daj Ognia disc with its dance-of-death track and this Wicher release, maybe...

Reviewed in issue October/2021