Reviews
Bahir
Where the rhythms and grooves of West Africa have been embraced across the planet, absorbed into the mainstream and melded...
Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: May/2019
Kin Sonic
There's a lot of laughter in this second album by the Congo's Jupiter & Okwess. Dramatic, over-the-top ‘mwa-ha-ha's from the...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2017
Malkradessa
The Bissau Guinean singer Venilio Evangelista Pan was born in Portugal and lives in London. This, his debut album, is...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Dark Matter
Ever since 1982, when Australia’s I Goanna band gifted I radio stations their enduring Top 10 hit ‘Solid Rock’, the...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2020
Tooth & Nail
When you’re used to hearing Barking¬born Billy tetchily dissecting the state of the British nation in his sardonic foghorn of...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: June/2013
Capitalist Blues
A Songlines favourite since her days with Carolina Chocolate Drops, McCalla's solo debut Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2019
Future Sound of Ukraine: Borsh Division
As Vlad Trotsky, theatre director and conceptual genius behind DakhaBrakha, once put it: ‘Old Europe is tired and cynical and...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: July/2016
The Rough Guide to African Blues
What goes around comes around. African music was transported across the Atlantic in slave ships and came to soundtrack the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2014
In Paris
The tween and teenage girls of Benin’s Star Feminine Band knew nothing – zip – about playing music before 2016...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2022
