Reviews

Across the Universe

Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri is a one-off in India, a writer, intellectual and composer who says things like “I don't see any...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Timeline

Suarasama

Suarasama, which means ‘one voice’, is a small ensemble of musicians and ethnomusicologists from North Sumatra. Formed in 1995 by...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Trois

Acid Arab

There's an essential difference between listening to Rachid Taha or Khaled and Acid Arab. These ten tracks are not songs...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Mentallogenic

Alex Figueira

The Amsterdam-based Venezuelan-Portuguese producer, musical auteur and DJ Alex Figueira had a stint playing percussion for Altın Gün and certainly...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Since Time is Gravity

Natural Information Society

The American composer and multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams has long described his experimental Natural Information Society ensemble as an exercise in...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Sonido Lava

Daniel Haaksman

Adding a Berlin sheen to Latin America's electric rhythms, DJ-producer Daniel Haaksman returns with his fourth full-length release, Sonido Lava....

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Davorio

Samuele Strufaldi

In 2019 the Italian composer and jazz musician Samuele Strufaldi was invited by djembé player Boris Pierrou to visit his...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

As We Speak

Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer & Rakesh Chaurasia

The last time Songlines interviewed Béla Fleck, he had briefly set aside his global adventures to return to the music...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Come Back To Me

Peter One

Originally from the Ivory Coast Peter One emigrated to the US to escape Civil War. Prior to this, he released...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

ASAP Inşallah

Ya Tosiba

For the past dozen years, the electronic music duo Zuzu Zakaria & Tatu Metsätähti have intrigued with their raw blend...

Reviewed in issue June/2023