Reviews

Bonfrost

The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc

When they got together in 2009 The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc were something of a curiosity: three outstanding string players from...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Hidden Soul of the Fjords

Heidi Torsvik & Lazerus Winter

Heidi Torsvik and Lazerus Winter's Hidden Soul of the Fjords invites you to take a Nordic journey of discovery and...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

About Towers

WÖR

‘New energy for old Belgian music' is the ringing slogan adopted by the five musicians of WÖR. Their mission to...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Wiązanka

WoWaKin

The opening track of Wiązanka (The Bunch) launches us straight into a wild mazurka in the spirit of a rural...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Riddle Songs

Stef Conner

We know from poems such as Beowulf, which mentions warriors singing praise songs, and Caedmon's ‘Hymn’, a divine inspired song,...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Bellanöva

Bellanöva

The Four Provinces is an area pertaining to four distinct administrative subdivisions located in four different Italian regions (Lombardy, Piedmont,...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

In Which

The Teacups

Alex Cumming, Kate Locksley, Rosie Calvert and Will Finn met in 2010 on the Folk and Traditional Music degree course...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

When the Sun Goes In

Simon Robinson

After touring extensively for 12 years with the band Maia, Robinson has recently preferred to explore the more traditional roots...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Klezmer from the New World

Susi Evans & Szilvia Csaranko

This is a clarinet and accordion duo, Susi Evans being one of the best klezmer clarinettists of our day, playing...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Still Time

Karen Matheson

Karen Matheson returns after five years to prove she still deserves her place among Scottish Folk Royalty – along, of...

Reviewed in issue March/2021