Reviews
Glad Christmas Comes
‘Glad Christmas comes’ is the opening line from ‘December’ in John Clare’s poem The Shepherd’s Calendar. Carthy and Boden sing...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: January/February/2024
There Must Be Another Way
Packing a punch with their post-pandemic offering, Manchester-based Agbeko’s There Must Be Another Way is a musical declaration of their...
Reviewed by Hillary Palesa Morusi in issue: January/February/2024
Le Sato 2
Latest in Acid Jazz’s reissue programme from the legendary Benin record label Albarika Store, this newly revived vintage gem was...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2024
African Acoustic
A few years back Songlines used to be deluged with multi-artist budget-priced compilations like this one. Indeed, there were so...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2024
Torem
Shamanic couple Natasha ‘Baba Yaga’ and Anatoly Pakhalenko bring you another haunting Siberian offering with Torem. It’s an invitation to...
Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: January/February/2024
The Sky Unfurls, The Dance Goes On
Led by Brazilian-born, Italian/English-raised songwriter and singer Lau Ro, Wax Machine’s third album, The Sky Unfurls, The Dance Goes On,...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: January/February/2024
Talende Strenger/Kertovat Kielet
Ragnhild Knudsen & Pauliina Syrjälä
Look no further than this Norwegian/Finnish collaboration for a textbook example of how musicians and producers should convey their music...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: January/February/2024
Ode Dite
This is a curious release from Croatian guitarist and singer-songwriter Adam Semijalac. He’s deliberately put his guitar away and picked...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: January/February/2024
Imershón
Vernon Chatlein is a composer, theatre maker and musician from Curaçao, an island in the region of the Caribbean that...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: January/February/2024
Black Attack
40 years since Mutabaruka’s first studio album, and 14 years since his last, this new release from the Jamaican dub...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: January/February/2024
