Reviews
Right of Passage
Franco-American guitar and banjo player Cory Seznec and Senegalese guitarist-turned-kora player Amadou Diagne first met while busking on the streets...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Amansara
Chancha Via Circuito is one of a group of producers that emerged from Buenos Aires in the mid-2000s as part...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
O Método
Since he left Madredeus in 1994, Rodrigo Leão has established himself as a masterful songwriter, working on a sort of...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2020
Chouïa
For the past decade this multi-instrumentalist trio have pushed the boundaries of Québécois traditional music by exploring other music cultures....
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: June/2019
A Bright Star Has Risen
There has always been some tension between Bulgaria as a modern industrialised nation – a member of the European Union,...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2013
Lastenkerääjä
Akkajee are a Finnish band of two akkas, a term they define as a ‘head-strong woman with a decisive attitude...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: July/2021
Songs of Happiness, Poison & Ululation
Over the last decade, as ageing baby boomers took stock of their past and waxed nostalgic about the pop, soul,...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Russia: The Tradition of Wind Instruments
If you imagine the sound of Russian folk music, it is probably folk choirs that come to mind – women...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Madjafalao
Le Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou
One of the great West African big bands of the 1970s, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo were Benin’s answer to Senegal’s Orchestra Baobab,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Dankoroba
Dankoroba is Mali-born, Montréal-based Djely Tapa’s solid follow-up to 2021’s Barokan (reviewed in Songlines #164). Daughter of the venerable singer...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: January/2025
