Reviews
Calima
Balimaya Project Meets Discos Pacífico All-Stars
With Calima, London based Afro-jazz fusionists Balimaya Project combine with Colombia’s Discos Pacífico All-Stars to celebrate the deep musical connection...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: October/2025
The Heart Whispers and Whirls (Excerpts)
Melbourne’s The Resonant Heart is a collective of CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) and BIPOC women and female-identifying artists. This...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: October/2025
Ghazel
Formed in 2022, the collaboration between the Lebanese duo of buzuq player Farah Kaddour and guitarist/producer Marwan Tohme is a...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2025
The Dome Sessions
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Designed in 1962 by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, the concrete dome in Tripoli, Lebanon was intended to be one of...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2025
Toumaro
If it wasn’t for Salif Keita, Kassé Mady Diabaté would surely have been recognised as the finest male vocalist in...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: September/2025
Mirrormouth
Irish singer, composer, performance artist and puppeteer, Branwen Kavanagh's Mirrormouth shepherds us through a pensive, wistful landscape. Surrealism – both...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: September/2025
Shadows
Shadows is an avant-garde exploration of South East Asian musical traditions. Like the shadow puppetry that Indonesian gamelan often accompanies,...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: September/2025
Undercover Beast
Langendorf United scooped a Grammy Award, plus a Top of the World album pick in Songlines in 2023, for their...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: September/2025
The Strangers’ Share
The Strangers’ Share sits somewhere west of Cornwall, out there where English mingles with Americana. This Cambridge-based folk duo are...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: January/2026
Far From Nowhere
Josienne Clarke | Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker
Clarke’s songs always have a focused, condensed intensity of purpose, a sensitivity and strength that come from a combination of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2026
