Reviews | Songlines

Reviews

Review of Cyrillus Kreek: The Suspended Harp of Babel

Cyrillus Kreek: The Suspended Harp of Babel

Vox Clamantis & Jaan-Eik Tulve

ECM

Rating: ★★★

Estonia has a number of contemporary composers who have made an art out of sacred choral music and written for...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of World on the Ground

World on the Ground

Sarah Jarosz

Rounder

Rating: ★★★★

Sarah Jarosz's fifth studio release is the product of a new collaboration with musician, songwriter and producer Josh Leventhal. Known...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of The Dance She Spoke

The Dance She Spoke

Duende Libre

Duende Libre

Rating: ★★★

Duende Libre's third album, The Dance She Spoke, finds the band's founders – pianist Alex Chadsey, drummer Jeff ‘Bongo’ Busch...

Reviewed by Catalina Maria Johnson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Blue White Gold

Blue White Gold

Dreamers’ Circus

Vertical Records

Rating: ★★★★

It has already been a decade since Danes Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (fiddle), Nikolaj Busk (piano and accordion) and Swede Ale...

Reviewed by James Roriston in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Wayfinder

Wayfinder

Mohamed Assani

Mohamed Assani

Rating: ★★★

This recording from Canada-based sitarist Mohamed Assani successfully combines the melodic sophistication of the Hindustani tradition with a more contemporary...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Seasons of Change

Seasons of Change

Tom Kitching

Talking Cat

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded in Staffordshire's 19th-century Danebridge Methodist Chapel with guest players including Norway's Marit Fält (Vamm) on Nordic mandola and cittern...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of IV

IV

Baklava

Zmej

Rating: ★★★

‘I am Istanbul,’ says Elena Hristova, the lead singer of folk-fusion band Baklava. Though she spends much of her time...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of RELAY, Vol 1

RELAY, Vol 1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Bandcamp

Rating: ★★★

There are good reasons to buy this album, via Bandcamp, at the price of your choosing, because all proceeds are...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of 4

4

Leni Stern

Leni Stern

Rating: ★★★

The product of a decade of musical research and cross-continental collaboration, 4 is the fruit of Leni Stern's forays into...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Afropentatonism

Afropentatonism

Alhousseini Anivolla & Girum Mezmur

Top of the World

Piranha

Rating: ★★★★

With five notes per octave, the pentatonic scale is considered the oldest scale in the world. Originating in ancient Mesopotamia...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

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