Reviews
Before I Knew What Had Begun I Had Already Lost
For Jon Wilks’ fourth album he has broadened the sonic palette of 2021's spare Up the Cut, adding Jackie Oates’...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: June/2023
A Curious Compendium of Crooked Irish Tunes Vol 1
It’s safe to say that Dr Dave Flynn is something of an iconoclast. The composer and guitarist behind the Irish...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2023
African Acoustic
A few years back Songlines used to be deluged with multi-artist budget-priced compilations like this one. Indeed, there were so...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2024
Embodied Poetry
The prolific Mehmet Polat presents another album of Turkish ud jazz with inflections of other traditions. Similar to his previous...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2023
De Alcohol y Desamor
A supergroup eminently deserving of that title, Tablao de Tango bring together three greats of Argentinian music: Franco Luciani on...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: July/2024
Africa Yontii
This is the second instrumental album for Sahel Sounds by the Senegalese guitarist from Baaba Maal’s home town of Podor...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024
Nieves de Enero
Dubbed ‘Godfather of the Corrido’, Chalino Sánchez was shot dead in 1992, aged only 31, after a concert in which...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: November/2024
Toña
Kadialy Kouyate is a superb kora player from Kolda in south Senegal. Now based in the UK, he's involved in...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: September/2025
Oberkas Travel
Oberkas Travel are as close to a supergroup as one can get. A quartet of seasoned members of Warsaw’s alternative...
Reviewed by Michał Wieczorek in issue: February/March/2026
Towards An Expanse
This is Berlin-based Dumama’s debut solo album, following on from Buffering Juju, work the South African singer made as one...
Reviewed by Kwanele Sosibo in issue: May/2026
