Reviews
Chosen Daughter
When I reviewed O'Connor's debut release, This Willowed Light, back in #102, I enthused about how the turn of phrase...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Rustico
Júlia Kubinyi, Balázs Szokolay Dongó, Ferenc Zimber
This album is quietly radical. It features three skilled Hungarian folk musicians in unusual arrangements of tunes from different parts...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
August
Since the release of their first album, Modus Operandi, in 2013, Trio Dhoore, made up of brothers Koen (hurdy-gurdy), Hartwin...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Strange Suite
Guitarist Ateshkhan Yuseinov's new album truly is a Strange Suite; its carefully ordered tracks lead listeners down a path of...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Mastika
Urban southern Serbia, under Turkish rule until 1878, has retained many so-called ‘Oriental’ characteristics in its folkways, food and, of...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
The Portage
Are there really only four fiddles on this third release from RANT? Such is the richness of sound that I...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
The Reckoning
Topic's series of reissues from its back catalogue in celebration of its 80th year continues to impress with this deluxe...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Iram
Appropriately enough this disc begins with the gently rippling sound of the cimbalom before taking of into the catchy opening...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Wheels of the World
This English folk trio may be young (they're only in their early 20s) but they're already celebrating a decade of...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
