Reviews

Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng

Orchestra Baobab

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

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

Trio Mio

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

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

Ilhan Ersahin's Wonderland

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

In a Box

Megson

The name of husband-and-wife duo Megson is now familiar on the English folk circuit. Their first studio album in four...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2014

Love & Stillness

Tom Bancroft's In Common

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

From Nubia to Cairo

Ali Hassan Kuban

First released back in 1989, when ‘world music’ was young, this set is as life-enhancing and plain funky as an...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2019

Affric

Duncan Chisholm

Chisholm was born and raised in Inverness, in the Scottish Highlands. He learned under the late, great fiddler player, composer...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Sujud

Senyawa

Since 2010, avant-garde Javanese duo Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi have been conducting a series of sonic trials on the...

Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: May/2019