Reviews
Knock Knock Get Up
These days the indie-folk gimmick is so over-used that it's easy to dismiss any band that daims to have folk/roots...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: July/2013
Egoli
All aboard Damon Albarn's exhilarating Africa Express again, this time bound for Johannesburg. Albarn travelled to South Africa last year...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Salsa Bestial
The brief but intense number ‘Macabiónico’ gives a good idea of what to expect from Puerto Rica’s finest: solid hardcore...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2013
Salsa Brothers
Hot on the heels of DJ Lubi Jovanovic's recent compilation for Nascente, Salsa Funk Experience (reviewed in Songlines #75), comes...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2011
Ainda Há Tempo
Criolo had already been rapping at events around São Paulo for many years before he released his debut, Ainda Há...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2017
Tsara Madagasikara
Here is the long awaited return of one of Madagascar's most loved musicians, valiha (bamboo zither) master and multi-instrumentalist Samoela...
Reviewed by Paddy Bush in issue: October/2010
Tangos
Rubén Blades is good at lots of things: singing, acting, writing salsa hits, being Panama's tourism minister, campaigning (against Sun...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Last Mile Home
The final entry in Boden’s ‘post-oil’ trilogy is an acoustic and spare iteration of his apocalyptic themes, set against the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2021
The Wedding Above in Glencree
Since deciding to become a musician after seeing Christy Moore perform on Irish TV and then cutting his teeth as...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2023
If He Dies, If If If If If If
Not so much a group as a multi-media project, Jerusalem in My Heart consist of Lebanon-born Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2016
