Reviews Search | Songlines

Reviews

Review of In Sciô Ton

In Sciô Ton

La Squadra

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

One of Italy's many musical treasures, trallalero is an urban group-harmony singing from Genoa, organised around at least eight singers...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of Synthetic Hearts

Synthetic Hearts

Msaki x Tubatsi

Nø Førmat!

Rating: ★★★★

Asanda Lusaseni Mvana, better known by her performing name Msaki, won Female Artist of the Year at the South African...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2023

Review of I've Forgotten Now Who I Used to Be

I've Forgotten Now Who I Used to Be

Witch Camp

Six Degrees

Rating: ★★★

The producer Ian Brennan has for some years been on a mission to give a platform to the voices of...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2021

Review of Africa Today

Africa Today

Etuk Ubong

Night Dieamei

Rating: ★★★★

Hailed by Seun Kuti as ‘one of the best things to come out of Lagos,’ the trumpeter and composer Etuk...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020

Review of Dawn Chorus

Dawn Chorus

Hidden Orchestra

Tru Thoughts

Rating: ★★★

The solo studio project of multi-instrumentalist composer and producer Joe Acheson, Dawn Chorus is by turns lyrical, expansive, indulgent and...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2017

Review of Stone Horse

Stone Horse

Indotranceltic

Suriya Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Former Killing Joke bassist Youth launches his new global beats label Suriya Recordings in fine style with Indotranceltic's satisfyingly uncategorisable...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Review of Down in Washington Square

Down in Washington Square

Dave Van Ronk

Smithsonian Folkways

Rating: ★★★★

A seminal figure in the American folk renaissance of the late 1950s and early 60s, Dave Van Ronk was a...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2014

Review of O Paraíso

O Paraíso

Lucas Santtana

Nø Førmat!

Rating: ★★★★

Bahian artist Lucas Santtana read David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth, yet remains largely upbeat. Paradise is potentially here and now,...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2023

Review of Mutation

Mutation

Monster Ceilidh Band

Haystack Records

Rating: ★★

Newcastle-based Monster Ceilidh Band are much in the mould of Shooglenifty or Peatbog Faeries, with a rich fusion of ceilidh...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2017

Review of Deuawd

Deuawd

Cass Meurig & Nial Cain

Fflach TRADDCD323H

Rating: ★★★★

Cass Meurig and Nial Cain are based in Gwynedd, North Wales, but come from quite different musical backgrounds. Meurig is...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

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