Reviews

Trovaores

Antonio Placer Sextet & Antonio Campos

Antonio Placer is a Galician singer, poet and songwriter who describes himself as ‘exiled’ in France. Trovaores, his latest release...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Skiver

Folkatron Sessions

These sessions – ‘eight musicians, seven days, one experimental folk album from scratch’ – feature a welcomely eclectic mix of...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Cretan Smash

Balothizer

Greek folk tales set to thrash metal ‘music from hell’ (that’s how their fans, not their critics, describe them) may...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Urranta

Deirdre Graham

Deirdre Graham comes from a musical family on the Isle of Skye. After studying Gaelic song and clarsach at the...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Puput

Cocanha

By singing in the ancient French regional Occitan language accompanied mainly by bodily percussion, this all-female vocal group will inevitably...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Mare

Quadro Nuevo

Why do Germans go to the Mediterranean for their holidays? I know, a controversial question, and liable to prompt talk...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Østerlide

Østerlide

Norwegian trio 0sterlide cannot be accused of overstatement. This album of folk vignettes is so subtle as to at times...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Live at St George’s

O’Hooley & Tidow

One of British folk’s best-loved dynamic duos (and now with a baby son attached), O’Hooley and Tidow marked ten years...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

In Trad We Trust

Sväng

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

Mariza

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