Reviews
Stand & Deliver
Pilgrims’ Way have had something of a chequered history. In 2011, the trio of singer Lucy Wright, fiddle player Tom...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2018
Get Out While You Can
Aside from the singing phenomenon Gurrumul, Australia’s hottest indigenous musician these days is Dan Sultan. With an Irish father and...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: July/2010
Ballads: Murder, pIntrigue, Love, Discord
Topic continue to mark their 70th anniversary with the release of seven classic albums from their catalogue in sumptuously packaged...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Lunar Tredd
Fimber Bravo may not be Trinidad's best-known steel pan player. His skill comes instead through experimentation, a creative approach that...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: March/2021
The Art of Improvisation
One of the essential resources for Indian classical music is The Raga Guide, published in 1999 by Nimbus Records. It...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2011
Al-hambra
Ahmed Mukhtar & Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde
Baghdad-born Ahmed Mukhtar studied oud and Western percussion in London. On this album, inspired by a visit to Granada’s Alhambra...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2025
Robbie Greig & Friends
Edinburgh-based and steeped in the Gaelic tradition, Robbie Grieg has enlisted a fine set of friends for his debut album,...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2017
Ruido Tovar
Mexican Institute of Sound and Meridian Brothers
Mexico and Colombia collide with joyful energy and absurdist humour on this debut collaboration between two veterans of the wonkier...
Reviewed by Justin Turford in issue: May/2026
Jouhikko
Finnish music fans around the world know Logrén as the fiddle player in the legendary band Värttinä. What they might...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: September/2024
The Best of Vis-A-Vis in Congo Style
Earlier this year Songlines reviewed the reissue of Obi Agye Me Dofo, a rare 1977 album from the golden age...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2022
