Reviews
Mély
Rozsdamaró are, in terms of the Hungarian folk revival, relative newcomers but committed traditionalists; that is to say that they...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Mazes
On her second album, Mazes, Harri Endersby subtly blurs the line between traditional and contemporary folk music, with added birdsong...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Cladaich Loch Iù
Cladaich Loch Iù marks the debut of Gaelic singer and West Coast native Steven MacÌomhair and a pleasant enough, if...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Hurry the Jug
Leonard Barry, Declan Folan & Shane McGowan
Leonard Barry, Declan Folan and Shane McGowan's long comradeship in countless live sessions pays crisp, spryly accented dividends aplenty in...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Igrali se Konji Vrani: Black Horses Romped
The Serbian group of female singers led by Svetlana Spajić is probably the best known and undoubtedly the most prolific...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Rose in June
Boden's presence on the 21st-century British folk scene has been colossal – from his stint in Eliza Carthy's Ratcatchers band...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Revel and Rhyme
This is a serious-minded collection of original ballads in the English folk song tradition. The opener, ‘World Turned Upside Down’,...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Dilyn Afon
Cynefin is the recording name of West Wales trip-hop-and-jazz-player-turned-folk-musician Owen Shiers. The title translates as ‘Following a River’ and takes...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
The Servants' Ball
This exuberantly entertaining album came about after double bass player Ben Nicholls, reading about Sussex concertina player Scan Thester, found...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Igrali se Konji Vrani: Black Horses Romped
The Serbian group of female singers led by Svetlana Spajić is probably the best known and undoubtedly the most prolific...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
