Reviews
Rock & Roll Jihad
Junoon have been Pakistan’s leading rock group for the last 20 years, but the latest release under the banner is...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Transcendence
Most Songlines’ readers will not have heard of Mashkoor Ali Khan, an Indian classical vocalist who sings khayal, an ornamented...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2017
Session A9
It's hard to believe ten years have passed since Session A9 first burst onto the scene in with their raucous...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2013
Sacred World of Azerbaijani Mugham
Gochag Askarov, in his mid-30s, is the new icon of mugham, the intense classical music of Azerbaijan. He was the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2014
Revelation
One of the less comfortable truths for fans of Middle Eastern music in the West is that most CDs released...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: June/2015
Songs from Aulejas
This album of 16 a capella songs comes out of a doctoral thesis by Latvian musicologist Asnate Rancâne who studied...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020
Maidin Domhnaigh
Seamas Hyland left those rapscallions, The Mary Wallopers, last year. His first solo album, Maidin Domhnaigh (Sunday Morning) reveals his...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: August/2024
Bu Bir Demdir
Alevi-German singer Aylin Yıldırım and her band of Augsburg-based musicians on saz, guitar, drums, bass and keys perform a selection...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: January/2025
