Reviews
Grit
It's hard to believe it's been 11 years since Martyn Bennett's Grit was first released. The last album recorded before...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2014
Right of Passage
Franco-American guitar and banjo player Cory Seznec and Senegalese guitarist-turned-kora player Amadou Diagne first met while busking on the streets...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
On The Road Again
Begun as a Bob Marley tribute band back in 1997, Katchafire have long flown the flag for Kiwi roots-reggae. Based...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng
Despite the title, the first album from the legendary Senegalese dance band in a decade is not a tribute album...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2017
Ether
Anupama Bhagwat belongs to a band of female classical instrumentalists in Hindustani music that is rapidly shrinking in number. Still...
Reviewed by Veejay Sai in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Polyglot Pike
Now on their fifth album, Trio Mio have an impressive collection of awards from their previous releases. Swede Jens Ulvsand,...
Reviewed by James Roriston in issue: March/2019
Amansara
Chancha Via Circuito is one of a group of producers that emerged from Buenos Aires in the mid-2000s as part...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
The Other Side
Born in Sweden from a Turkish family, saxophonist Ilhan Ersahin works hard creating and promoting new sounds and events in...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: October/2014
Love & Stillness
Drummer Tom Bancroft is probably best known to Songlines readers through having worked with the Grit Orchestra, which brought the...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2019
