Reviews
Chicha Popular: Love & Social Political Songs from Discos Horoscopo 1977-87
By the late 70s Peruvian cumbia had become synonymous with neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Lima populated by internal migrants...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: May/2022
Nar
Singer Christiane Karam draws on both her Lebanese and Armenian heritage to deliver a richly textured and multilayered album that...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: May/2022
Alazhymny/My Alash
This release is essential for fans of Tyvan throat singing. It features unique archive field recordings made in Tyva from...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: May/2022
The Age of Aquarius
There have been a lot of releases in recent years by European acts incorporating Asian pop and even traditional instrumentation...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: May/2022
Day is Come
The self-titled first album by the trio of Nuala Kennedy (flute and whistle), John Doyle (guitar, bodhrán, keyboards), and Eamon...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: May/2022
Needle & Thread
Dom Prag is a young singer and guitarist from Southampton who discovered the world of traditional folk song when he...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2022
Little Hammam
When Songlines reviewed Ouesh Hada?, the 2013 debut album from Temenik Electric, we suggested it would be thrilling to hear...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2022
In My Own Time
Karen Dalton, who died in 1993 at age 55, was for a brief period in the 1960s the darling dark...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2022
The Long Count
On Animus, her 2018 debut album, Mexican-American producer-musician Delia Beatriz aka Debit explored metallic soundscapes, frantic club grooves, pulsing sequences...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2022
Awakening
The Tibetan singer and composer has been in exile from her birth land for over 30 years. Awakening is her...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: May/2022
