Folk

On December 10, 2025, we lost one of the most fascinating vocal interpreters in Slovenia, Aleš Hadalin. Hadalin was known as a 'promoter of the human voice,' and through his work he earned the flattering title of one of the most original…

Label: CelinkaRelease date: February 8, 2021 (digital) / May 2021 (vinyl)Production: Janez DovčGenre: Folk/World Music/Pop/Art Rock/Jazz FusionRating: 9.5/10 Janez Dovč is a major name on the Slovenian music scene. He's the boss of…

Self-releasedRelease date: September 10, 2020Production: Žiga Fabbro & Samo TurkAlbum length: 36.04 minGenre: Ethno/Folk/JazzRating: 8.0/10 Samo Turk and Žiga Fabbro are two musicians who go way back. They've been playing…

Prog rock giants Jethro Tull, led by their unbridled, energetic, lucid, sarcastic and charismatic frontman Ian Anderson, rock's most famous flautist, who has always known how to poke at social sore spots with his one-of-a-kind lyrics and…

Location: Cerkno / Star plac / SloveniaDate: Friday, July 17, 2020 Yet another seriously fresh evening that we had the privilege of spending in Cerkno brought us there on the wings of an exciting concert announcement — another…

"Indigo is a band that follows a musical vision of blending pop, electronics and traditional collages of Slovenian folk melos, which add a pinch of richness to the band's sonic language. Indigo laid that out with the bold debut »Drugačna«…

"What Wild Strings Trio pulled off so beautifully on their gorgeous studio debut "Lost Weekend", they now deepen, expand and keep nurturing on the new record "Bendjistan"."

"Orlek are back with a mighty, swaggering swing, riding a wave of newly found creative freshness and every element of their trademark miners' rock'n'roll preaching, while showing a whole lot of artistic maturity and wisdom."

"A concert of exceptional qualities, as one might quietly have expected. A concert that leaves you with powerful, intense feelings — and one that, even after it ends, holds you in a state of rapt absorption, caught in the creation of a…

“Dream Hunting” is a very solid, mostly ambient, 'still-life' and personal folk/pop rock album that mainly reflects Ziblat's versatility as a songwriter and his genre-free approach.

"A new Prekmurje quintet of seasoned musicians is devoted to crossing traditional folk songs from Prekmurje and Porabje, which in their musical vision they dress up into a fresh musical conglomerate, delivering a new, hugely interesting and…

"A thoroughly devout "Prekmurje evening" on the second day of this year's GodiBodi festival, headlined by Edna and Ethnotrip."

Location: Tolmin / Kinogledališče Tolmin / SloveniaDate: Saturday, 23.03.2019 "Človek ni zver" ("Man Is No Beast"). Damn right. Compared to man, the beast is small fry. Man is of course far worse. There isn't a word that could even…

Label: Celinka Release date: 01.09.2018 Producer: Dejan Berden Over the years Ethnotrip have developed a chemistry all their own. It's a singular weave of instrumental playing, ruled of course by an endearing, endlessly yearning female…

Label: Zavod OrbitaRelease date: 05.10.2018Production: SmetAlbum length: 46.15Genre: Country / Blues Smet is an interesting musical hybrid! Special and downright unique. Independent and homegrown. In its whole essence and expressive…

"Brencl Banda won over Cerkno with an incredibly convincing, deeply internalized knack for walking the invisible thin line that fuses the quartet's improvisational sensitivity on one side with a masterfully maintained, highly invasive…

location: Bled / Jezerska promenada / Slovenia date: 02.08.2018 English guitar legend and folk rock pioneer Richard Thompson first rose to fame as a founding member of the unforgettable folk rock icons Fairport Convention, with…

"Cabaret chanson with a female voice front and center, where different genres deftly pass the baton to one another, ends up as a blend of them all and a real eclecticism. That was also the core aim of the album 'Nemi film'."

"Throughout the material, the three musicians develop an extraordinary, almost intuitive sense of each other as they come together in this seamless and utterly unique musical picture book."

"Kdo bo pil iz bistrega studenca?" is an incredibly bold and brave move and one of the most beautiful documents out there, one that will irreversibly seduce and enchant even the true folk purist, in a free-spirited reworking of folk music's…

Label: CelinkaRelease date: 2014Production: Janez DovčGenre: Folk/World Music/Pop/Art Rock/Jazz FusionRating: 9.0/10 Yep. Slovenes can be team players too. Janez Dovč, the lead protagonist and visionary behind the "Sounds Of…

"The point of fusing accordion, tuba and percussion into one unconventional, out-of-the-ordinary musical body hits its mark with sheer audacity. It serves up a completely autonomous musical experience that's hard to pin down with any real…

Label: Self-released Release year: 2013 Production: Peter Ošlaj & Ethnotrip Album length: 46.32 Ethnotrip is a quartet that plays folk standards. They only formed in 2009 and they're young going by the birth years on their ID cards,…

"This band is unbelievable! It started out as a parody, taking folk songs mostly from the Tolmin area and turning them upside down in a cheeky way, true to the authentic Tolmin folk tradition."