Reviews
Zero Grace
Born in Nottingham with an English mum and Jamaican dad, Liam Bailey grew up listening to reggae, soul and rock...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2024
Deep Africa
Back in the 90s, Eric Mouquet and his French ‘ethnic electronica collective’ Deep Forest did more than anyone else to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2013
Wood Works
This is the not the first jazz or folk release from a classical string quartet that started life as an...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2014
Vodou Alé
Chouk Bwa were a revelation upon their debut album, 2015's Se Nou Ki La! (reviewed in #110), a wonderful set...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2020
Javas
London now comes just after Bordeaux in terms of numbers of its urban French population, so it's perhaps no great...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2017
Moyuba Baba, Moyuba Yeye
Now 12 years old, the London Lucumi Choir continues to do extraordinary community-centred arts work and celebrates the rich, syncretistic...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2018
Shakkar
2011 Songlines Newcomer Artist Award-winner Raghu Dixit has been busy of late composing and performing as a playback singer for...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: September/2024
Homegrown
As legacies go, they don’t get much weightier than that of folk icon Woody Guthrie. Homegrown, the latest album by...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: August/2025
Live at Tou
A few years ago a group of musicians from the Slovakian Roma community came together with a group of musicians...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2021
Fado Tradicional
Since her 2001 debut Fado emMim, Mariza has taken fado to a new, non-Portuguese audience and expanded its horizons by...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2011
