Soema Montenegro tells Silvia Rothlisberger about the ancestral connections and magical realism influencing her new album. “I’m not transmitting musical notes, but sensations,” she explains
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the January/February 2020 issue
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the June issue of Songlines, featuring Zoufris Maracas, Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn, Santrofi, Orkesta Mendoza, and more...
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the April 2020 issue
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the May 2020 issue
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the October 2018 issue
Kanda Bongo Man, Etran de L’Aïr and Dur-Dur Band Int bring danceable African sounds to the Welsh mountains…
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the June 2018 issue
The summer of 2020 will be remembered as a giant void in the festival calendar with coronavirus causing a deluge of postponements and cancellations from Shetland to Sarawak. In a show of support for the festival community, musicians and Songlines contributors share their favourite festival memories over the years. Read more in the current issue (#160) available now.
The musician Rowan Rheingans has a new solo project and album that are part-memoir, part-theatre. She talks to Julian May about the many influences that shaped these works
The British artist was all at sea until he came across a druid ceremony which ignited his art and set him off on a new path as a documentarian. “It made me re-plug myself back into humanity,” he tells Russ Slater Johnson
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the October 2019 issue
Announcing the launch of a new country-by-country playlist series of essential West African recordings
Les Amazones d’Afrique and Julian Marley are the first names announced for Africa Oyé, the UK's biggest live festival of African music and culture
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