Reviews
Léve Léve: São Tomé & Príncipe Sounds 70s-80s
São Tomé and Príncipe isn't exactly known as a musical powerhouse nation – Songlines has only ever reviewed one other...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2020
Listen All Around: The Golden Age of Central and East African Music
If it ain't exquisite, it ain't Dust to Digital. The record label is well known for its high-quality compilations of...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Heal & Harrow
At a time when there is a movement afoot to pardon the 4,000 or so women who found themselves at...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2022
Chinook Waltz
When you click the ‘Music’ tab on Over the Moon’s website, the introductory note says, ‘With this album, we tried...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2022
Delhi to Damascus
This album is predicated on the idea that by changing just a few elements of a musical style or tradition...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: November/2020
Live and Raw
Raw indeed. And a lot of that rawness is courtesy of Dennis Wint, Invisible System's frontman, best described as a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013
Double Dekker
Desmond Dekker (1941-2006) brought Jamaican music to an international audience in a way that no other artist had previously achieved:...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2019
Strings for Peace
Amjad Ali Khan, Sharon Isbin, Amaan Ali Bangash, Ayaan Ali Bangash
This is a pretty unusual jugalbandi, as they call it when two Indian soloists duet together. I don’t think there...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2020
Kachupada
With Verdade, her 2010 release, Carmen Souza introduced herself to the world as a kind of Cape Verdean Diana Krall....
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2013
Rhythms of Tof Miriam
If, like me, you have a reptile-brain suspicion of recordings that bring together New Age sensibilities with world drums and...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2020
