Reviews
Sand and Foam
Kabir Sehgal & Amaan Ali Bangash & Ayaan Ali Bangash
Last time sarod players Amaan Ali & Ayaan Ali Bangash appeared in Songlines it was in a distinguished fusion project...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2022
Estar Ahí
With or without his band La Chicana, Acho Estol’s music always has something of a tea-concert quality. An airy lightness...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2022
LAS
Brìghde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie & Steven Byrnes Haberlin
Now here’s something pretty remarkable, the first album of double C smallpipes to be released anywhere in the world. LAS...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2022
The Space Between
Kicking off with a fiery, drum-pounding reel courtesy of Jerry Holland (‘Brenda Stubbert’s Reel’) and closing with the rather spooky...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2022
¡Ay!
¡Ay!, the seventh solo release from Colombian-born, Berlin-based musician and producer Lucrecia Dalt, is an album of twin concepts. The...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: November/2022
Flea Market Music
Leonardo Marques, guitarist of Udora and sound recordist to the likes of Milton Nascimento, returns with a fourth solo project,...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: November/2022
Lulanga Tales
Nyati Mayi & The Astral Synth Transmitters
Veteran of the Brussels music scene since the late 1980s, multi-instrumentalist Nyati Mayi has roots in the Congo, and on...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: November/2022
Who Are We?
Born in the largely Algerian neighbourhood of Barbès in Paris, the quintet Al-Qasar mixes hypnotic North African trance grooves and...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2022
Miniatures
Self-styled ‘musician explorer’ Axel Moon and old friend Niko Shin formed Ko Shin Moon in 2017 after the former had...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: November/2022
Jaya
Chandra Lacombe has been playing and recording since the early 80s, the Brazilian musician gaining renown for his intertwining of...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: November/2022
