Reviews
Beyond the Blue
Jamaican toasting legend Big Youth collaborates here with travelling French producers Brain Damage and Sam Clayton Jr in a heady...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
One With the Wind
Branko Galoić and Francisco Cordovil
A couple of years ago, Branko Galoić and Francisco Cordovil happened to be in the same Parisian bar with live...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2019
Mount Royal
Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge
What to call the music played by the two guitar virtuosos Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge? Chamber-folk? Jazz? Alt-Americana? What...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2017
Saath Saath
Purbayan Chatterjee & Rakesh Chaurasia
It is barely nine months since Chatterjee earned a three-page feature in Songlines (December 2021, #173) for his splendid album...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2022
Pesebre
For all its pedigree, contemporary music from Argentina can be a little predictable. As modern tangueros like Orquesta Típica Fernández...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Beyond the Borders
Maria Farantouri & Cihan Türkoglu
This project brings together the Greek singer Maria Farantouri and Anatolian saz player and composer Cihan Türkoğlu, who arranged all...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Songs From Walking with Spirits
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
The re-release of this 2007 album showcases an extraordinary collaboration that brought together Aboriginal songmen with other Australian musicians. It...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: July/2023
In Winter
A winter album has been on the to-do list of this brilliantly inventive art-folk ensemble for a decade and a...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: January/2025
Found Music
Amit Chaudhuri continues his experiments from This is Not Fusion, and it’s a rich and provocative journey he’s taking us...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
