Reviews
Love & Stillness
Drummer Tom Bancroft is probably best known to Songlines readers through having worked with the Grit Orchestra, which brought the...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Bahdja
Manuel Hermia & Kheireddine Mkachiche
Though best known for jazz, Manuel Hermia's oeuvre traverses a wide range of musical genres and styles. The Belgian saxophonist,...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Mycelium
Mycelium is (apparently) the vegetative part of a fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike filaments. The threadlike filaments...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
The Tabla Project
Sam Evans' The Tabla Project isn't as groundbreaking as it is refreshing. Every track has a character of its own...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
How to Swim in the Desert
In their 12th album, French group L'Attirail journey across a desert; by swimming, of course. Along the way they meet...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
3
There's no sign of The Gloaming losing that special touch on their third studio album, which opens with an intense...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Streams
The Paris-based guitarist Nguyên Lê is known for his distinctive style of world jazz. His previous albums combine jazz improvisation...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Traversées
Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko
Jardins Migrateurs, the previous collaboration of Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko was described here as ‘ a disc of regal and...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Mediterasian
This young Italian Gypsy jazz guitarist was ‘hooked for life’ on first hearing Django Reinhardt as a 16-year-old. During a...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
La Colère de la Boue
Charkha's second outing, La Colère de la Boue (The Anger of Mud), explores our complex, emotional connection to the natural...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
