Reviews | Songlines

Reviews

Review of Brooklyn-Cumaná

Brooklyn-Cumaná

Jorge Glem & Sam Reider

Guataca Nights

Rating: ★★★

New York has long been the hub of Latin-Saxon musical collaborations. Jorge Clem is a Latin Grammy winner and Grammy-nominated...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Review of Gwandena

Gwandena

Timpana

Sounds and Colours

Rating: ★★★★

Is dilution helpful for diffusion? Are synths and dance beats the best/only way to expand the audience from grey-beards to...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Review of Force of the Wind

Force of the Wind

SOYUZ

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★

SOYUZ, which translates as ‘Union’ is a creative collective from Belarus, and this third album is definitely true to the...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of De Todas las Flores

De Todas las Flores

Natalia Lafourcade

Sony Music

Rating: ★★★★

Lafourcade's first album of new, original material in seven years shows an artist in command of her many talents but...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of Trapdoor to Hell

Trapdoor to Hell

Arthur Coates

Arthur Coates

Rating: ★★★

Prodigious young multi-instrumentalist Arthur Coates grew up in Insch in Aberdeenshire listening to his parent's favourite folk music from their...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of Window to the World

Window to the World

Clarice Assad

Vectordisc Records

Rating: ★★★★

If anyone should record this ‘Tribute to Milton Nascimento’, then maybe it's this Grammy-nominated singer-pianist. ‘I was born into the...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of La Estrella

La Estrella

Chancha Vía Circuito

Wonderwheel Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Argentina's Chancha Vía Circuito transitioned from being a pioneer of digital cumbia in all its raw, urban, bone-shaking glory to...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of Mamarron Vol 1

Mamarron Vol 1

Los Cotopla Boyz

AYA Records

Rating: ★★★

Mamarron Vol 1 aims to present a modern day representation of the Colombian tropical music scene, playfully dubbed ‘millennial cumbia’....

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of YTILAER

YTILAER

Bill Callahan

Drag City

Rating: ★★★★

Bill Callahan's Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest saw his writing point its focus inwards and take on the enormity of...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition

Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition

Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard

Top of the World

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

In 1965, Who's That Knocking? by Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard demolished forever a de facto gender barrier within the...

Reviewed in issue December/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