Reviews | Songlines

Reviews

Review of Corner of the Dub

Corner of the Dub

Solus3

Solus3

Rating: ★★★

Solus3's Corner of the World was a complex, layered set of pieces that owed much of its effect to its...

Reviewed in issue March/2013

Review of Albion Voice

Albion Voice

Bishi

Gryphon Records

Rating: ★★★★

She's a one-woman show wrapped in the colours of leftfield folk pop, Indian strings, art ensemble music and a broad...

Reviewed in issue March/2013

Review of Human Nature

Human Nature

Soothsayers

Red Earth Records

Rating: ★★★★

With a sound that reflects the diversity of their Brixton background, Soothsayers are finally gaining the recognition they've earned through...

Reviewed in issue March/2013

Review of Orient Noir: A West-Eastern Divan

Orient Noir: A West-Eastern Divan

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Piranha

Rating: ★★★

In the saturated compilation market these days it’s all about packaging and presentation. The ‘noir’ concept by the German label...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Namaste

Namaste

Kenny G & Rahul Sharma

Concord Music

Rating: ★★

With song titles like ‘Transcendental Consciousness’, ‘Brhama-Vishnu-Shiva’ [sic] and ‘Om Shanti’, we are clearly in California meets India territory. Rahul...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Fangnawa Experience

Fangnawa Experience

Fanga & Maalem Abdallah Guinea

Strut

Rating: ★★

In an era where collaboration is the key to some of the most exciting musical styles around, some fusions remain...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Triode

Triode

Laila Amezian

Top of the World

Music & Words

Rating: ★★★★★

Like Natacha Atlas, Laila Amezian was bom in Belgium to parents of Moroccan heritage. And like Atlas, she has spent...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Shuffle

Shuffle

King Porter Stomp

Community Sounds

Rating: ★★★

The stompers of King Porter hail from the southern shores of the UK – they’re a seven-piece Brighton-based collective that...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Brothers in Bamako

Brothers in Bamako

Eric Bibb & Habib Koite

Contre Jour

Rating: ★★★

The American folk¬blues guitarist Eric Bibb is hardly in the same legendary league as Ry Cooder or Taj Mahal. Nor...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Sketches of Africa

Sketches of Africa

Antonio Forcione

Antastic

Rating: ★★★

David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet once speculated on what Beethoven’s works might have sounded like if he’d been able...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

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