Reviews
Across the Pacific
The South Pasifika Sound Project
An Australian-based audio experiment, The South Pasifika Sound Project is the brainchild of musician-producer and traveller Paul Agar, who in...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: April/2021
Gamelan of Java, Volume IV: Puspa Warna
Lyrichord's latest two discs highlight Javanese gamelan music's diversity. On Puspa Warna, musicians from central Java perform some of the...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: June/2011
The Invention of Colour
When someone as great as the renowned Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, describes a compatriot's music as ‘like a perfume of...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
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
Two Friends, One Century of Music
In August 2015 the two great names of tropicália – Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil – performed an all-acoustic set...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: May/2016
African Griot Groove
Baba Sissoko | Djeli Mah Damba Koroba & Baba Sissoko
If you travel around the villages of West Africa, you will hear music played with a raw and earthy vigour;...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2013
Nkolo
Pascal ‘Lokua’ Kanza has roots in Congo–Kinshasa and Rwanda, two nations afflicted by the greatest contemporary tragedies Africa has known....
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: Apr/May/2010
Josh Billings Voyage
This is a concept album of sorts. The methodical American multi¬instrumentalist Tim Eriksen, formerly of cult alt-folk rockers Cordelia’s Dad,...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Intizar
Mohammad Motamedi & Rembrandt Trio
When I visited the national Fajr Music Festival in Tehran for the first time, I walked into a performance by...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: April/2024
Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St
Frankly, it’s unfortunate that psych soul stalwart Swamp Dogg’s label chose to announce his new foray into bluegrass with the...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: July/2024
