Reviews
Song Up In Her Head
It’s extremely hard to get past the fact that this multi– instrumentalist bluegrass super-talent from Texas is only 19 years...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Şatellites
Şatellites are a brilliant Tel Aviv Turkish-psych cover band – but they’re also much more than that. Some of their...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2022
Cause ‘N Affect
Born of a Tongan father and a Kamilaroi Aboriginal mother, Sydney-based singer David Leha had a troubled childhood, and wound...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2015
A Hajnali Csillag Ragyog
Tcha Limberger’s Kalotaszeg Trio
Violinist Tcha Limberger was born in Belgium to a Romani Gypsy father. His last disc, reviewed in Songlines #60, was...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2010
Oro
Grammy-nominated darlings Choc Quib Town are the real deal: a trio who preserve the heritage of such traditional Afro-Colombian rhythms...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2010
La Imagen en Silencio
Buenos Aires has strained connections with its hinterlands; beyond them, provincial Argentina has more in common with Bolivia or Mongolia...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2021
Afro-Latin: Via Dakar
As readers of Songlines probably know, Latin music was re-Africanised after World War II when wind-up phonographs made it to...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: October/2011
The Vienna Tapes
In 2001 Ulf Lindemann (aka Dunkelbunt) moved from Hamburg to Vienna. That was his first journey eastward - his first...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2020
Gagaku
Gagaku, meaning ‘refined’ or ‘noble’ music, is a form of Japanese imperial court music that flourished during the Heian period...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
All Dressed in Yellow
The cover of All Dressed in Yellow features a photo of a man with his arm outstretched holding, horizontal, in...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2010
