Reviews
Gael Vision
Violinist Joe O’Donnell was a force to be reckoned with in the Irish music scene of the 1970s, colliding traditional...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Frontrunner
Frontrunner is Anglo-Hungarian Rakoczy’s horse-themed debut. From pagan creatures to racehorses, equine figures run through the album, tying together a...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
150 Voices
Sklamberg is best-known as the vocalist of The Klezmatics and an excellent Yiddish (and English) singer. Siberian-born Shepherd is also...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Going for Broke
Good Habits are a duo from Manchester Bonnie Schwarz (vocals/cello) and Pete Shaw (accordion/cajón). By a quirk of fate, they...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
To the Awe
With the same band she used for her award-winning Here’s My Heart Come Take It (drummer/producer Mattie Foulds, violinist Lauren...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
From Ocean’s Floor
Linda Buckley is one of the most eclectic, least categorisable composers Ireland has produced in recent years. As likely to...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
The Living Mountain
Jenny Sturgeon is quite the renaissance woman. The Aberdeenshirebased singer-songwriter has a PhD in seabird ecology and as well as...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Tepid on My Trippin’ Heels
Naomi Randall is a Cambridge native who debuted in 2013 with an album she shared with Tom Gaskall. Randall continued...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Pandemic Songs
Johnson is an English singersongwriter who wears his heart on his sleeve and always fights the good fight. His forefathers...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Tempo
It’s eight years since the release of Costa Félix’s last disc. Admittedly, his previous album, Fados de Amor, was a...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
