Reviews
Placeless
Kronos Quartet and Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat
Given the track record of Kronos Quartet and Iranian singers Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat, it's not surprising that this is a...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2019
Invisible Strings
Eraldo Bernocchi & Prakash Sontakke
‘Classical Indian slide guitar’ isn’t a style you hear about every day – but if you’re a fan of Hindustani...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: March/2017
Libraries on Fire
Since Songlines first championed the South African guitarist Derek Gripper following his 2012 album One Night on Earth, his transpositions...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2016
Peggy's Dream
Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble
Lovers of The Gloaming will be expecting the best from Clare fiddler extraordinaire Martin Hayes and the Common Ground Ensemble,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2023
Vision of Three
In 2017 Swedish viola d’amore player Anna Ekborg Hans-Ers started to realise her dream of establishing a string trio grounded...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2024
Queen of Eyes
Take a pair of harmonising female vocalists, ask them to record outside a one-room cabin on an island off Washington...
Reviewed by Motez Bishara in issue: September/2024
Ajdad – Ancestors (Echoes of Persia)
Another record from a Western-based Iranian musician with the same familiar themes: mystical song titles, cross-cultural collaboration and, of course,...
Reviewed by Kamyar Salavati in issue: February/March/2025
Introducing Amadou Diagne
Senegalese guitarist and singer-songwriter Amadou Diagne won World Music Network's online ‘Battle of the Bands’ competition with an entry that...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Apr/May/2012
Koima
The West first heard the guitarist and singer Sidi Touré, from Gao in northern Mali, in 1996 when Stern’s released...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2012
