Reviews
Dub Me Tender Vols 1 & 2
The dub remix is a tricky thing to pull off. If you're trying to replicate the soupy yet cavernous sound...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Apr/May/2012
Léve Léve: São Tomé & Príncipe Sounds 70s-80s
São Tomé and Príncipe isn't exactly known as a musical powerhouse nation – Songlines has only ever reviewed one other...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2020
Spirit
Spirit is the maiden voyage of Buster Sledge, a progressive bluegrass trio based in Oslo, where California-born fiddler and lead...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2020
Bondeko
Back in 2004, Cameroonian multi-instrumentalist Richard Bona, Congolese griot Lokua Kanza and the French-Caribbean musical adventurer Gerald Toto convened to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2018
A Pocket of Wind Resistance
Karine Polwart with Pippa Murphy
From the first note to the final, pulsing heartbeat, this is not merely an album of songs but a full...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Sweet Visitor
She's got a pedigree going back to two superb albums with Eliza Carthy in the early 90s, and with partner...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
The Spirit of the Mountains
Trebunie-Tutki & Quintet Urmuli
The Trebunie-Tutki are Poland's best-known band playing traditional podhale (highland) music, but they are also famed for their reggae fusions...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2017
Vagrant Stanzas
The inspiration for Vagrant Stanzas came, according to Simpson, from sessions at the kitchen table with his neighbour Richard Hawley,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Escapology
As a bansuri (flute) rises from a bed of flamenco guitar on album opener ‘Escapology’, any listeners who last heard...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
