Reviews
Cause ‘N Affect
Born of a Tongan father and a Kamilaroi Aboriginal mother, Sydney-based singer David Leha had a troubled childhood, and wound...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2015
Kuşların Çağrısı (Call of the Birds)
Many of Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat's projects have been reviewed in Songlines. I came across the honeyed melancholy of her...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: June/2017
Mi Alegria
Eclectic composer and musician Itamar Erez's new album Mi Alegria (My Happiness) weaves a scintillating journey incorporating a vast array...
Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: November/2019
Day by Day
At 83 years old, Blake is poised to take his place in the Americana pantheon. In the 1960s he made...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/February/2022
Long Story Short
The cello has never featured very prominently in jazz. Bass player Oscar Pettiford is probably the best known (occasional) cellist...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2019
Traversées
Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko
Jardins Migrateurs, the previous collaboration of Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko was described here as ‘ a disc of regal and...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2019
Northern Landscape
Hailing from County Tyrone’s Clogher Valley and formed in 2015, The Blackwater Céilí Band have been carving out a name...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: August/September/2022
Al Nge Taa
Jan Galega Brönnimann, Moussa Cissokho & Omri Hason
The Swiss woodwind player Jan Galega Brönnimann plays some of the lowest clarinet you’re ever likely to experience – on...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2016
Dreamers
Magos Herrera & Brooklyn Rider
The names dropped on the lyric sheet of this classy crossover album constitute a lofty constellation of Ibero-American idealism: Octavio...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2019
