Reviews
2019
At a recent meeting to plan Songlines' 20th anniversary commemorative special (out on September 6), we found ourselves wondering what...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2019
365: Volume 2
Reveal Records issued Volume 1 in the spring of 2018, with Lau's fiddler joining forces with jazz pianist Kit Downes...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2019
To an Isle in the Water
Brisk's music sounds thoroughly and authentically Irish, so it comes as a big surprise to discover the quartet are actually...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: October/2019
Air Iomall
This is the kind of album that leaves you wanting to hear the whole CD again immediately without having to...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: October/2019
Dytomite Starlite Band of Ghana
Dytomite Starlite Band of Ghana
Although the identities of the musicians playing on this album are a complete mystery (such is the joy of old...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: October/2019
Beating Heart Tanzania (Originals)
This endearing collection of field recordings is sourced from English ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey's remarkable catalogue of South and Central African...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
What Makes You
Indie folk champions Elephant Sessions return with their second album, and a cracker it is too. Winners of Live Act...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Wasalala
Translating as ‘She Glows’, the title-track of Madalitso Band's second album recounts the hardships of an orphaned girl who grows...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
