Reviews
Kora World
Best-known for a series of fine albums as a duo with his kora-playing Swedish wife Sousou, on this fine solo...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2023
Deep of Time
Cory Seznec’s fourth album, Deep of Time, conceived and produced during the COVID-19 lockdown, presents a contemplative, metaphysical, ethereal side...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2024
African Acoustic
A few years back Songlines used to be deluged with multi-artist budget-priced compilations like this one. Indeed, there were so...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2024
Bamako Chicago Sound System
Nicole Mitchell & Ballaké Sissoko
In the summer of 2017, kora maestro Ballaké Sissoko and American jazz flautist Nicole Mitchell were commissioned by Chicago’s Hyde...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2024
Viaje Sideral
A member of the UK/Colombian Mestizo project, El León Pardo plays the kuisi and other ancient Colombian flutes, as well...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2025
Atlanti Kaw
Now based in Belgium, the Burkinabé guitarist Sina Kienou and European vocalist Soledad Kalza met at a festival in 2019...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2025
Old Time Fantasias
Tennessee-based guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Joseph Allred is probably best known for his work as a solo musician, his earlier offerings...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: August/2025
Danse Divines
DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson
Danse Divines is the fourth album from this French duo with a sun-kissed Afropean lilt and beats ranging from disco...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/2025
Sunshine Music
ALA.Ni is a west London-born, Paris-based singer, songwriter and composer of Grenadian heritage whose debut 2016 album You & I...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2025
Home
Here’s an interesting oddity. A group of African musicians sing in a makeshift studio on the banks of Lake Malawi,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2022
