Reviews
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2016
This year sees the 17th BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. They grow ever more prestigious and this year, the Royal...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2016
Little Hammam
When Songlines reviewed Ouesh Hada?, the 2013 debut album from Temenik Electric, we suggested it would be thrilling to hear...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2022
Sounds from the Saray
Apparently taken prisoner in his youth by marauding Tatars and sold at the slave market in Constantinople, Wojciech Bobowski (c1610-1675)...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2022
The Wind Horse
Anda Union were Songlines ‘ favourite band at WOMAD this summer. From Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia (the part...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Mistico Mediterraneo
Paolo Fresu, A Filetta & Daniele di Bonaventura
That the simple movement of air can make such haunting sounds as the opening of this album is miraculous. The...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: July/2011
The Best Boleros from the Costa Chica
The ‘Costa Chica’, or ‘little coast’, is the stretch of Pacific shore that runs from south of Acapulco to the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2018
At Dawn of Day
At Dawn of Day, the second album from Barluath, a still-fresh, still-developing new addition to the Scots music scene, is...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2015
Walsh & Pound
In these uninspiring times, in which Autotune software retains a strange stranglehold over popular music, Walsh & Pound might seem...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2011
