Reviews

The Spectrum Project

Marie Fielding

Award-winning fiddler Marie Fielding’s fourth album is a curious, but engaging, experiment. Exploring the organic nature of the creative process...

Reviewed in issue October/2020

Live at the Old Fruitmarket

RURA

Live at the Old Fruitmarket marks an incredible ten years for the band, a decade that has seen many changes...

Reviewed in issue October/2020

Mãe

Liana

Mãe (Mother) is Liana’s take on motherhood in our present age of anxiety. It’s her fourth solo album (she has...

Reviewed in issue October/2020

Last Pagan Rites/From the Yotvingian Stone

Bronius Kutavičius

Born in 1932, Bronius Kutavičius is one of the most prominent figures in Lithuanian musical culture. Concerned with the deep...

Reviewed in issue October/2020

Cyrillus Kreek: The Suspended Harp of Babel

Vox Clamantis & Jaan-Eik Tulve

Estonia has a number of contemporary composers who have made an art out of sacred choral music and written for...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Blue White Gold

Dreamers’ Circus

It has already been a decade since Danes Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (fiddle), Nikolaj Busk (piano and accordion) and Swede Ale...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Seasons of Change

Tom Kitching

Recorded in Staffordshire's 19th-century Danebridge Methodist Chapel with guest players including Norway's Marit Fält (Vamm) on Nordic mandola and cittern...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

RELAY, Vol 1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

There are good reasons to buy this album, via Bandcamp, at the price of your choosing, because all proceeds are...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Zithers

Andrew Cronshaw

Andrew Cronshaw's presence as a player, writer and critic has been a significant part of the folk and world music...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

River Sisters

Sutari

The female trio Sutari have a distinctive place in the Polish musical landscape. Kasia Kapela, Basia Songin and Zosia Zembrzuska...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020