Reviews
Star Feminine Band
Coming at you like an epic puppy stampede is the Star Feminine Band, a seven-strong group of Beninese girls whose...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: January/2021
Yallah Mickey Mouse
Cyril Yeterian (better known as the accordion playing frontman for Cajun blues band Mama Rosin) and fellow Genevan avant-garde experimentalist...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: January/2021
Hidari Ude No Yume
While most famous around the world as a member of the groundbreaking group Yellow Magic Orchestra, Ryuichi Sakamoto has been...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: January/2021
Plastic Bouquet
Songlines readers of a certain vintage and musical proclivity will recall It’s a Beautiful Day, a San Francisco- based folk-rock...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/2021
Azerbaijani Gitara
As well as a hot contender for this year’s Most Charmingly Naff Cover Photo award, the inside of this album...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/2021
Live at St George’s
One of British folk’s best-loved dynamic duos (and now with a baby son attached), O’Hooley and Tidow marked ten years...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2021
In Trad We Trust
This irrepressible Finnish harmonica quartet have delighted and astonished us for 17 years, producing eight albums ranging music from Sibelius...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: January/2021
Mariza Canta Amalia
In her salad days as the young pretender, Mariza was as embarrassed as she was flattered by the comparison with...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/2021
