Reviews

Murder, and the Birds

David A Jaycock

David A Jaycock has previously collaborated with Marry Waterson and James Yorkston. This album is a dark, eccentric exploration of...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Hearth

Mairearad Green

Multi­instrumentalist Mairearad Green’s latest album is inspired by the women and landscapes of Coigach, a peninsula in Wester Ross in...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

If You See a Rook on Its Own, It’s a Crow

Elle Osborne

Lincolnshire-born singer and fiddle player Elle Osborne first hit the folk scene with her 2000 debut Testimony. This was followed...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

The Wilderness Yet

The Wilderness Yet

Taking their name from a line in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ nature poem ‘Inversnaid’, this Sheffield-based trio boast the vocals of...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Cliffs

Garefowl

The St Kilda archipelago, located 50 miles west of the Outer Hebrides and evacuated 90 years ago this year, exercises...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Wake Up Calls

Cosmo Sheldrake

The son of scientist Rupert Sheldrake and voice therapist Jill Purse, multi­instrumentalist Cosmo Sheldrake has already released an EP and...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Nomadic Spirit

La Caravane Passe

For two decades, and across five albums, La Caravane Passe (The Caravan Passes) has delivered a music steeped in Balkan...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Nattflykt

Hansan

Floating with vulnerability and enchantment, this Swedish and German duo follow both jazz and folk influences to provide us with...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

TMSA Young Trad Tour 2019

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Each year, the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year’s six finalists form a band with the previous...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

NOU?

Mascarimiri

How does a region’s traditional music survive its own commercial success? Apparently overwhelmed by the touristic boom of pizzica, Apulian...

Reviewed in issue November/2020