Reviews Search | Songlines

Reviews

Review of Catching Ghosts

Catching Ghosts

Peter Brötzmann, Majid Bekkas & Hamid Drake

ACT Music

Rating: ★★★

Peter Brötzmann is a graduate of the 1960s free jazz movement, who plays saxophone clarinet and the Eastern European tárogató....

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: July/2023

Review of A Curious Compendium of Crooked Irish Tunes Vol 1

A Curious Compendium of Crooked Irish Tunes Vol 1

Dave Flynn

Frisbee Records

Rating: ★★★

It’s safe to say that Dr Dave Flynn is something of an iconoclast. The composer and guitarist behind the Irish...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2023

Review of Aguajes de Mar y Manglar

Aguajes de Mar y Manglar

Cantares del Pacifico

Chaco World Music

Rating: ★★★★

Taking inspiration from the mystic waters of the Naya, Yurumanguí and Achincayá rivers, Aguajes de Mar y Manglar (Marshes and...

Reviewed by Jenna Mackle in issue: November/2023

Review of Dama Bëgga Ñibi (I Want to Go Home)

Dama Bëgga Ñibi (I Want to Go Home)

Aron & the Jeri Jeri Band

Urban Trout

Rating: ★★★★

In the spring of 2020, Bakane Seck, the Senegalese percussionist and founder of Dakar’s Jeri Jeri Band, found himself stranded...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2024

Review of Tears of the Sun

Tears of the Sun

Teni

Platoon

Rating: ★★★

The sophomore album from rising Nigerian star Teni is an Afrobeats-tastic affair in which the artist sings and raps in...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2024

Review of Eu Andava Como Se Fosse Voar

Eu Andava Como Se Fosse Voar

Aiace

Aiace

Rating: ★★★

A title that translates as ‘I Walked as if I Were Flying’ somehow suggests this north-eastern Brazilian singer’s ambition both...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2024

Review of Un Hombre de Buenos Aires

Un Hombre de Buenos Aires

Jorge López Ruiz

Altercat

Rating: ★★★★★

Jazz and tango had parallel evolutions, emerging in marginalised areas, gravitating to their respective centres and then going global. When...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2024

Review of Waillee Waillee

Waillee Waillee

Dorothy Carter

Palto Flats / Putojefe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Released in 1978, Waillee Waillee is the second full-length album from Dorothy Carter, composer, Mediæval Bæbes founder and master of...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: March/2024

Review of This is What I Want to Say

This is What I Want to Say

Martyn Joseph

Pipe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Throughout a career spanning 40 years, nearly that many albums and thousands of live performances, the Welsh singer-songwriter with the...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2024

Review of Badieh II

Badieh II

Badieh

Worlds Within Worlds

Rating: ★★★★

Formed around the nucleus of Michel Gasco (rubab, oud) and Mohammad Miraghazadeh (tar, setar), Badieh is an exploration of the...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2024

Subscribe from only £7.50

Start your journey and discover the very best music from around the world.

Subscribe

View the Current
Issue

Take a peek inside the latest issue of Songlines magazine.

Find out more