Reviews
Silence
Coşkun Karademir, Tord Gustavsen, Derya Türkan & Ömer Arslan
A master of the traditional Turkish long-neck lutes, Coşkun Karademir has released several remarkably adventurous recordings. With The Secret Ensemble...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: November/2021
Fallow Ground
Spiers & Boden have had a defining role in 21st-century British folk, from their early years with Eliza Carthy's Ratcatchers,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2021
Circling Time
A veteran of the Aboriginal music scene since 1991, Mutti Mutti man Edwards has been a key member of several...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2021
Tamburo Infinito
An album named Tamburo Infinito is fairly self-explanatory in its intentions. The seventh record from Italian multi-instrumentalist Gabriele Poso, it...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: November/2021
Buena Vista Social Club: 25th Anniversary Edition
Readers of Songlines will need no reminder of how the combination of Ry Cooder's meticulous production, a cast of veteran...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2021
City of Mirrors
Dos Santos are based in Chicago, but as the five-piece's surnames/nicknames – Chavez, Villarreal, ‘Maestro’ Vale, Garza, Karagianis – indicate,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2021
Moytou
UK-based Senegalese dancer-turned-singer Batch Gueye had a very promising first album, Ndiarigne, back in 2014, and has been a key...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2021
The Lucky Ones
Hailing from the Yukon Territory in the far north of Canada, The Lucky Ones took their name from Alistair MacLeod's...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2021
My Bluegrass Heart
Bela Fleck's paean to the genre in which the banjoist established himself as a virtuosic instrumentalist and innovative composer is...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2021
