Reviews
In Trad We Trust
This irrepressible Finnish harmonica quartet have delighted and astonished us for 17 years, producing eight albums ranging music from Sibelius...
Reviewed in issue January/2021
Mariza Canta Amalia
In her salad days as the young pretender, Mariza was as embarrassed as she was flattered by the comparison with...
Reviewed in issue January/2021
Words of a Fiddler’s Daughter: Rúnian
The Ciderhouse Rebellion with Jessie Summerhayes
Anyone who has spent time on Lindisfarne Island off Britain’s Northumbrian coast in the wintertime knows just how exposed it...
Reviewed in issue January/2021
Spectres
This instrumental folk duo are young musicians with a long pedigree. Immersed in the English folk scenesince birth, they are...
Reviewed in issue January/2021
Home Recordings
Simpson was scheduled to deliver a live album this year. Instead, he went home, found a room, pressed record, and...
Reviewed in issue January/2021
Where the World is Thin
Kris Drever’s solo albums don’t come that often – 2010’s Mark the Hard Earth was followed six years later by...
Reviewed in issue January/2021
Barely Ann-Mari
Peacemaker is a successful Finnish TV series starring Finnish singer and actress Irina Björklund in the leading role of Ann-Mari...
Reviewed in issue January/2021
These Feral Lands Vol 1
Laura Cannell & Stewart Lee & Friends
The music is typical Laura Cannell: open, chordal (lots of over-bowed violin), improvised. It’s the presence of Stewart Lee on...
Reviewed in issue January/2021
Le Chat Brel
French violinist Gabriel Bismut met Italian accordion player Maurizio Minardi while playing jazz in Paris four years ago. They discovered...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
