Reviews
Ayó
Many Songlines readers will remember Andy Palacio, whose 2007 album Wàtina has become as much a classic for Belizean music...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: October/2013
Brasilianos 2
This is one of those albums on which you can’t help but be impressed by the virtuoso musician¬ship. Bandleader Hamilton...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
The Nile: The Song of the Rivers
Rivers can be the basis of a beautiful musical journey. Songlines #1 covered a splendid Virgin Classics three-CD set that...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
The Prester John Sessions
A musician on a mission, Thomas T Gobena, aka Tommy T, summons the spirit of legendary Christian king Prester John...
Reviewed by Lucy Wilson in issue: March/2010
The Rough Guide to Bhangra
Bhangra is the dance music rooted in the distinctive loping rhythm of the dhol drum, which sprung from Birmingham's Punjabi...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Dr Dee
It's the reign of Elizabeth I and Dr John Dee, having survived imprisonment by bloody Mary, is now court astrologer,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2012
Kosher Nostra: Jewish Gangsters Greatest Hits
If the brilliant DJ Shantel had called this My Biggest Fattest Jewish Wedding Ever then it might end up selling...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Komitas
The Gurdjieff Ensemble & Levon Eskenian
Komitas (1869-1935) will always remain one of music history's most tantalising mysteries. Born Soghomon Soghomonian in a Turkish village and...
Reviewed by Michael Church in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Afro Future Funk
One of the glories of modern world music is the way in which global rhythms have become totally cosmopolitan. To...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
