Reviews
If You See a Rook on Its Own, It’s a Crow
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
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
Wake Up Calls
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
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
TMSA Young Trad Tour 2019
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?
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
Mysteries Unfold
Take a deep breath before playing Tassignon’s solo debut Mysteries Unfold, the waters run deep ahead. After several decades working...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
