Reviews

Wild Games

Vedan Kolod

There's a rugged earthiness and authenticity about Vedan Kolod. The name in old Russian means ‘Prophetic Tree’, although as a...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

Decade

Fidil

This new effort from the Irish string trio sees them return with an impressive display of fiddle music based around...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

Tuath: Songs of the Northlands

Brian Ó hEadhra & Fiona Mackenzie

Brian Ó hEadhra and Fiona Mackenzie have been working together for 25 years now, notably in the bands Anam and...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

Mentro

Gwen Màiri

The title of this album is taken from a traditional tune, ‘Mentra, Gwen’ (Venture, Gwen). How could Gwen Màiri resist...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

La Criée

Zakouska

Originally influenced by the Balkan and Romanian traditions spanning the Carpathian mountain range of Central and Eastern Europe, this French...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

The Thread

Band of Burns

Two years on from their live debut, the 12-strong Band of Burns convened in the Scottish Highlands to put their...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

Huam

Salt House

A sense of care taken is the abiding impression left by this trio of Scottish Highland and Island folk musicians....

Reviewed in issue May/2020

Westward the Light

Westward the Light

There's a perception of the current crop of young Scottish trad bands that paints them all as playing their own...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

Thempest in a Theapot

Tuulikki Bartosik

I would love to go on a long, long walk with Tuulikki Bartosik, gently humming as the leaves rustle underfoot,...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Songs from Aulejas

Tautumeitas

This album of 16 a capella songs comes out of a doctoral thesis by Latvian musicologist Asnate Rancâne who studied...

Reviewed in issue April/2020