Reviews
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
The Liberty to Choose
The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, compiled by Ralph Vaughan Williams and A L Lloyd, was published in 1959....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
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
Tafrigh Vol 1
Tafrigh cannot be categorised easily. Rooted in different musical genres and styles, it is a mesmerising post-modern mixture of bizarre...
Reviewed by Kamyar Salavati in issue: July/2022
Quantic Presents Tropical Funk Experience
If you need some¬one to compile a co mpilation o f hen’s-teeth-rare funk grooves from 1 970s Latin America, there’s...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Disques Debs International: An Island Story - Biguine, Afro Latin & Musique Antillaise 1960-1972
A first release from the vaults of the label Disques, this French Caribbean selection encapsulates the riveting cross-pollination of island...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Music of the Bai Opera and the Dai Opera in Yunnan Province
This double CD album is a rare archive of the Bai and Dai music traditions. Both ethnic minorities are from...
Reviewed by Yijia Tu in issue: May/2020
