Reviews
Alabaraka Mussolu
Jali Fily is a griot (praise-singer) from the Casamance region of southern Senegal: one in a long line of prominent...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: July/2011
Out of Genre
Bach on the sitar? Not quite what you might be expecting from this album from Jonathan Mayer. But I was...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2011
Black Voices Revisited
Released in 1999, two years after the death of Fela Kuti, whose band was fired for so long by Allen's...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2011
Baba Toulenga
I'd wager that very few musicians under scrutiny in these pages, in this issue or any other, have graced the...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2011
Mistico Mediterraneo
Paolo Fresu, A Filetta & Daniele di Bonaventura
That the simple movement of air can make such haunting sounds as the opening of this album is miraculous. The...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: July/2011
Walsh & Pound
In these uninspiring times, in which Autotune software retains a strange stranglehold over popular music, Walsh & Pound might seem...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2011
American Legacies
Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Del McCoury Band
What's most surprising about this unlikely collaboration between two groups – one rooted in traditional New Orleans jazz, the other...
Reviewed by Roger Hahn in issue: July/2011
Salsa Brothers
Hot on the heels of DJ Lubi Jovanovic's recent compilation for Nascente, Salsa Funk Experience (reviewed in Songlines #75), comes...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2011
Afrodiaspora
Susana Baca's new disc has been well worth the wait. It's infused with the natural grace that has always made...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: July/2011
The Art of the Portuguese Fado Guitar
Custódio Castelo is one of today's finest players of the 12-stringed Portuguese guitar. He is perhaps best known as the...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: July/2011
