Reviews
Libraries on Fire
Since Songlines first championed the South African guitarist Derek Gripper following his 2012 album One Night on Earth, his transpositions...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2016
Peggy's Dream
Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble
Lovers of The Gloaming will be expecting the best from Clare fiddler extraordinaire Martin Hayes and the Common Ground Ensemble,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2023
Vision of Three
In 2017 Swedish viola d’amore player Anna Ekborg Hans-Ers started to realise her dream of establishing a string trio grounded...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2024
Queen of Eyes
Take a pair of harmonising female vocalists, ask them to record outside a one-room cabin on an island off Washington...
Reviewed by Motez Bishara in issue: September/2024
Ajdad – Ancestors (Echoes of Persia)
Another record from a Western-based Iranian musician with the same familiar themes: mystical song titles, cross-cultural collaboration and, of course,...
Reviewed by Kamyar Salavati in issue: February/March/2025
The Complete Friends of Old-Time Music Concert
Bessie Jones, John Davis & The Georgia Sea Island Singers with Mississippi Fred McDowell and Ed Youn
The immediate (and significant) feeling I got when I first started listening to this 1965 concert was one of privilege;...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: August/2024
Mugham
When a man's voice overflows with passion, and when you're told that he's singing ancient Persian poems, you want to...
Reviewed by Michael Church in issue: October/2011
Gakondo
This is the fifth album from Canada-based Jacques ‘Popo’ Muri-gande, a singer and guitarist from Rwanda born in a Burundian...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2012
