Reviews
Tongue & Groove
This is in fact two albums released together. Tongue and Groove are one disc of songs with vocals and a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2018
Little Hammam
When Songlines reviewed Ouesh Hada?, the 2013 debut album from Temenik Electric, we suggested it would be thrilling to hear...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2022
Osharaku
The Kasai Osharaku Preservation Society and Others
Available as a two-disc CD or 12” vinyl, this compilation is the latest in an ongoing preservation series by EM...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: April/2019
Astro-Hungarian Jewish Music
Frank London Glass House Orchestra
The Glass House Orchestra takes its name from the Üvegház (Glass House), a building used by the Swiss diplomat Carl...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2017
The Forest In Me
Hard-working Cretan-Australian duo Xylouris White continue to further their culty freeform lute-and-drums oeuvre with The Forest in Me, their fifth...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2023
¿Que Vola?
¿Que Vola? (‘What's Up?’ – a greeting commonly used by Cubans) opens traditionally with a grand salutation to the Santería...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: March/2019
World Inverted
Estonian fiddler, composer and singer Maarja Nuut has been a favourite in these parts since her 2016 album Une Meeles...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2020
Be Here Whenever
Danielle de Gruttola, Henry Kaiser, Benedicte Maurseth & Stein Urheim
After the plaintively beautiful but solitary sound of Benedicte Maurseth’s self-titled solo album (reviewed in the November 2019 issue, #152),...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Brasilianos 2
This is one of those albums on which you can’t help but be impressed by the virtuoso musician¬ship. Bandleader Hamilton...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
