Reviews | Songlines

Reviews

Review of Hallival

Hallival

Iona Lane

Iona Lane

Rating: ★★★

Nominative determinism is at work here. Iona is a Hebridean island famed for its wild beauty, spirituality, and ancient stories....

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2022

Review of Fado Jazz

Fado Jazz

Júlio Resende

ACT Music

Rating: ★★★★

Fado Jazz is Júlio Resende’s first album with ACT Music, one of Europe’s leading jazz labels and home to extraordinary...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2022

Review of Vox.Infold

Vox.Infold

Ruby Singh

Killbeat Music

Rating: ★★★★

Ruby Singh is a Canadian musician, composer, filmmaker and sound designer fascinated with mythos, memory, identity and fantasy. He works...

Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: May/2022

Review of Volume II

Volume II

The Armagh Rhymers

The Armagh Rhymers

Rating: ★★★★

The Armagh Rhymers have been fusing ancient and modern, the mundane and the magical, legend and the life lived since...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2022

Review of José Louis and the Paradox of Love

José Louis and the Paradox of Love

Pierre Kwenders

Arts and Crafts

Rating: ★★★★

Pierre Kwenders’ name resonates in many circles. The Kinshasa native, who has been living in Montréal since his mid-teens, has...

Reviewed by Alex DeLacey in issue: May/2022

Review of Electricity

Electricity

Ibibio Sound Machine

Merge Records

Rating: ★★★★

Four albums in, and Ibibio Sound Machine are showing no signs of slowing down. Bursting with purpose, Electricity offers hope...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: May/2022

Review of Deò

Deò

Beinn Lee

Beinn Lee

Rating: ★★★

On ‘Anam Saor’, the first single from this, their second album, Uist sextet Beinn Lee talk about finding their place...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2022

Review of A Saami Requiem

A Saami Requiem

Gunnar Idenstam and Ola Stinnerbom

Toccata Next

Rating: ★★★★

This is the most extraordinary coming together of different musical worlds and cultures created by visionary musicians: the Swedish organist...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2022

Review of Maiden Voyage

Maiden Voyage

The Silver Darlings

The Silver Darlings

Rating: ★★★★

So, 2021’s taste for the sea shanties may be starting to go as stale as a ship’s biscuit, but there...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2022

Review of Pase Lo Que Pase

Pase Lo Que Pase

El Dragón Criollo

El Palmas Music

Rating: ★★★

Colombian musician Paulo Olarte, based in Geneva, is the leader of several groups. All of them take as their starting...

Reviewed by Jaime Andrés Monsalve in issue: April/2022

Subscribe from only £7.50

Start your journey and discover the very best music from around the world.

Subscribe

View the Current
Issue

Take a peek inside the latest issue of Songlines magazine.

Find out more