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Review of The Eternal Rocks Beneath

The Eternal Rocks Beneath

Katherine Priddy

Top of the World

Navigator Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Priddy’s Wolf EP appeared in 2018, garlanded with praise from Richard Thompson. She’s since played the stages of Cambridge and...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2021

Review of Namlo

Namlo

Namlo

Namlo

Rating: ★★

Namlo have come up with a style of music that combines elements of Nepal's musical culture with the global influences...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: November/2018

Review of In Paris

In Paris

Star Feminine Band

Born Bad Records

Rating: ★★★★

The tween and teenage girls of Benin’s Star Feminine Band knew nothing – zip – about playing music before 2016...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2022

Review of Ocupai

Ocupai

Bixiga 70

Mais Um Discos

Rating: ★★★

In 2011, Afrobeat chronicler Dr Carlos Moore predicted that Brazil would be ‘the next Afrobeat world capital.’ Exaggerated though it...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Mabruk

Mabruk

Aziza Brahim & Gulili Mankoo

Reaktion

Rating: ★★★★

In the last issue, Songlines reviewed the latest album from Mariem Hassan, a leading singer and activist in the independence...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2012

Review of Adroneline

Adroneline

Homebound

Bird Creek

Rating: ★★★

Led by the German concertina and hurdy-gurdy player Thomas Zöller, Homebound are a seven-piece world music fusion band who have...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2016

Review of Mravka

Mravka

David Dower Trio

David Dower Trio

Rating: ★★★★

Citing influences such as Ben Folds Five and The Bad Plus, Australians the David Dower Trio blend elements of jazz,...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2023

Review of Memory Drop

Memory Drop

Oi Va Voi

V2 Records

Rating: ★★★★

After losing such strong musical personalities as founding members Sophie Solomon and Lemez Lovas, a less dedicated and stubborn band...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2019

Review of Vagabonde

Vagabonde

Mar Seek

Teianga Beat

Rating: ★★★★

Hasn’t the world now heard every possible permutation of the nexus of bands that revolutionised Senegalese music in the 1970s,...

Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: March/2014

Review of Alcance

Alcance

Nikos Tsiachris

Galileo Music

Rating: ★★★★

As flamenco continues to expand its appeal across the globe, one familiar disappointment is to hear foreign guitarists who have...

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: August/2017

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