Reviews

Vayter

Anne Kalmering & Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic

In Vayter, vocalist Anne Kalmering joins Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic, comprised of accordionist Miriam Oldenburg, cellist Isabel Blommé and violinist Semmy...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Hämeen Lauluja

Anne-Mari Kivimäki & Palomylly

This is the fourth release of this Finnish trio of multi-instrumentalists comprised of Anne-Mari Kivimäki on notka (accordion), vocals and...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Josef Josef

Josef Josef

Eric Slabiak, the driving force behind Josef Josef, was for many years part of Les Yeux Noirs alongside his brother...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Magic Nights

Christ Moore

Fifty years after his debut LP, Christ Moore's latest solo offering sees the Irish icon trawling though his live back...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Lååje – Dawn

Marja Mortensson & Daniel Herskedal

Marja Mortensson – winner of a Spellemannprisen (the Norwegian Grammy Award) in 2018 – writes ‘we could only ever become...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

3=1

Ekko Trio

Belgium has a strong surrealist tradition – second only to France's, in fact – and there's a strand of its...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Old Wow

Sam Lee

‘The old wow never wears thin,’ Sam Lee sings in ‘The Garden of England’, the opening track of his prodigiously...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Gold Has Worn Away

Benji Kirkpatrick & The Excess

Benji Kirkpatrick is a founder member of big-band folk trailblazers Bellowhead and a current member of Faustus, but he is...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Hed

Kreiz Breizh Akademi #7

The seventh-born of the well-known Kreiz Breizh Akademi musical laboratory from Brittany, this collective is based on the famous tradition...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Cold Light

Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll

The Bideford-based folk duo's last album celebrated Devonian postman poet Edward Capern, but with Cold Light the two fiddle players,...

Reviewed in issue March/2020