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Review of Rosa e Azul

Rosa e Azul

Alliye

Arrebol Music

Rating: ★★★★

The last time Songlines reviewed Alliye was for her 2006 release Arrebol, when she was living in Paris as Aline...

Reviewed by Alexander Robinson in issue: October/2022

Review of The Stone Turntable

The Stone Turntable

Transglobal Underground

Mule/Cadiz Music

Rating: ★★★★

Transglobal Underground were there at the start, shaking up the London club scene with their beats-driven fusion and proudly hippy...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2011

Review of In The World Of Light

In The World Of Light

Tiki Taane

Tiki Dub

Rating: ★★★

One of New Zealand's most powerful performers, Maori musician/producer Tiki Taane has come a long way since resigning his role...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of Brazilian Beat

Brazilian Beat

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Putumayo

Rating: ★★★

Putumayo's latest instalment of Latin music does not intend to be a definitive collection of new Brazilian music. It is...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Apr/May/2012

Review of El Valle de la Infancia

El Valle de la Infancia

Dino Saluzzi Group

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

A son, a brother and a nephew join Argentinian bandoneón (squeezebox) virtuoso Dino Saluzzi for this latest offering from the...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Oye Mujer

Oye Mujer

Ladama

Top of the World

Six Degrees Records

Rating: ★★★★

Pan-American musicians have got more chance of creating peace and prosperity than the region’s politicians. Perhaps the latter can call...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2020

Review of Raajroe: The Reindeer Caravan

Raajroe: The Reindeer Caravan

Marja Mortensson & Daniel Herskedal

Veadta

Rating: ★★★★

With the cinematic sweep of an epic, and with the steady, enduring relentlessness of the rhythms of the natural world,...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2022

Review of Musical Anthology of the Aka Pygmies

Musical Anthology of the Aka Pygmies

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ocora Radio France (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★★

In #114 we reviewed an Ocora CD of Aka Pygmy music that focused on their instrumental accompaniment. This latest album...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Luz

Luz

Cuca Roseta

Sony Music Portugal

Rating: ★★★

This latest album from Portuguese singer and new-wave fadista Cuca Roseta is a bright and upbeat affair. It's well recorded,...

Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: June/2018

Review of 78rpm

78rpm

Sheesham & Lotus & ‘Son

Sepiaphone

Rating: ★★

Like the Carolina Chocolate Drops, the Canadian trio of Sheesham Crow on fiddle and harmonica, Lotus Wight, on banjo and...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2016

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