Reviews
Afrique Mon Désir
Laurinda Hofmeyr, Afrique mon Désir Ensemble & Régis Gizavo & #9;
For more than two decades, Laurinda Hofmeyr has specialised in setting the poetry of her native South Africa to music....
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2018
Sounds of Peace
The revered Manu Dibango died three years after making M&M in 2017 with the Mozambican saxophonist, Moreira Chonguiça. Echoes of...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2023
There is No End
When this reviewer interviewed Allen for Songlines in 2020 just before lockdown, we talked mostly about Rejoice, his collaborative album...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2021
Taa! – Our Language May Be Dying, But Our Voices Remain (Botswana)
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
A project from Hidden Musics, an international music series of field-recorded albums produced by award-winning music producer Ian Brennan and...
Reviewed by Hillary Palesa Morusi in issue: August/September/2023
To Those Who Have Gone, I Sing in a Key of D
Dantchev: Domain is a Helsinki-based quartet led by Bulgarian-Finnish singer and percussionist Anna Dantchev. She’s joined by Finnish musicians on...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2025
Everything Changes
The cover is a photograph of Peggy Seeger: long coat, her back to the camera, banjo case, beside a railway...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2014
African Anthology: African Guitars
The task of selecting songs for compilation albums of the Lusafrica label is probably not too difficult, due to the...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Ouaga Affair: Hard Won Sound Of The Upper Volta 1974-1978
Ouaga Affair collects 15 tracks from the musical boom of the 1970s Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). But to see...
Reviewed by Ollie Sanders in issue: June/2010
Bamako Today
The BKO Quintet consist of four Malians and one French musician; they play traditional Malian music with a modern twist....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Band of Gypsies 2
Taraf de Haidouks & Koçani Orkestar
Ten years ago Romania's super fast Gypsy fiddling stars Taraf de Haidouks teamed up with Macedonian brass band the Koçani...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2011
