Reviews
The One and The Many
Great things are expected of Muntu Valdo, the Cameroonian musician who turned up in London from Paris three years ago...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2011
Strange and Dangerous Times: New American Roots
The alt-country movement in the 90s was a reaction to the candyfloss of modern Nashville. It gave birth to a...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2015
An Introduction to Shirley Collins
You could say Shirley Collins needs little introduction and, certainly within the folk world, that is true. But this serves...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2017
Soneros de Siempre
Not least among the multitude of treats lavished upon participants on the last Songlines Music Travel tour of Cuba was...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: June/2014
I’m a Stranger Here
If Nirvana had been a rockabilly band from rural Vermont, they would have sounded something like The Devil Makes Three....
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Chants des Trois Cours
Lebanese-Canadian singer Lamia Yared's album explores three of the traditions that created the Ottoman musical world: Turkic, Arabic and Persian,...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: March/2020
L’âme du Luth
It does seem incredible, but some students at the Damascus Conservatory – where Waed Bouhassoun first studied – once told...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Up River Overseas
Old Salt are a six-piece collective of musicians from the US, Belgium, Sweden and Scotland who first came together at...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2016
Beach Daze
The Island Girls are accordionist Karen Tweed and piano and fiddle player Margaret Robertson, MBE. The Islands are Orkney, where...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: August/September/2022
11th Street, Sekondi
It is refreshing to know that the career of highlife singer and multi-instrumentalist Gyedu-Blay Ambolley appears to be on a...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2020
