Reviews

Troubles

Dirtmusic

Hugo Race and Chris Eckman have previous form in Mali. The duo behind Dirtmusic are both rock musicians of some...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

Simbiose

Ialma

Ialma is a Brussels-based quintet of female vocalists originally from Galicia in north-west Spain. Like a traditional women’s choir from...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Carry Them With Us

Brìghde Chaimbeul

Chaimbeul's richly experimental new album sits perfectly in Glitterbeat's almost always excellent catalogue of outlier artists from world music traditions;...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2023

Joropo Music from the Plains of Colombia

Cimarrón

Música Llanera is the music of the vast open expanses of the Colombian plains around the Orinoco River, up in...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

50 Years

The Dubliners

When the definitive history of Irish folk music comes to be written, The Dubliners will loom large and long in...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Apr/May/2013

Ayó

The Garifuna Collective

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

Folila

Amadou & Mariam

Everyone's favourite musical married couple appear to be seeking to expand horizons already broadened by the likes of Manu Chao...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2012

Brûle Lentement

Mama Rosin

Brûle Lentement begins with a slow burn, as Cyril Yeterain's accordion wheezes through ‘Ou est Passé EC Lenoir?’ with the...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2010

Diversity

Ebo Krdum

Diversity is a theme in Ebo Krdum’s life. Growing up in a village in the Darfur region of Sudan, his...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/February/2022

Nesta

Sarah-Jane Summers

This is an album with some great intros. Rather like the slow, inquisitive alaaps that introduce a raga in Indian...

Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: July/2010