Reviews
Empêche-Nous!
France's favourite southerners are back with more balladry about life in the port city of La Ciotat, near Marseille. This...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: June/2012
King Jammy's Selector's Choice Vol 2
King Jammy, Jamaican DJ and producer, began his career under the tutelage of dub legend King Tubby before setting up...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
The Rough Guide to Paris Café
Oh dear, here we go again. Cue the Citroën DS archive shots and the old tourist board copy. More ethno-musicological...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Singing Between the Lines
Two years after his CD and DVD live studio outing Ja s s i What Happened? comes a new release...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2012
Rainy Season Blues
The last session the Malian guitarist Lobi Traoré recorded before his death in June this year at the age of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Helsinki: Shangri-La
When was the last time you heard Finnish hip-hop? Been a while? Well, on the evidence of Paleface, you should...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2011
Assi: A Story of a Syrian River
The name of this album is derived from a river near Hama that is said to be the only river...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: May/2016
Un Canto por México Vol 2
The follow-up to last year’s acclaimed Un Canto por México, Vol 1 (a Top of the World in November 2020,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Baba Toulenga
I'd wager that very few musicians under scrutiny in these pages, in this issue or any other, have graced the...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2011
Rosa e Azul
The last time Songlines reviewed Alliye was for her 2006 release Arrebol, when she was living in Paris as Aline...
Reviewed by Alexander Robinson in issue: October/2022
