Reviews
Lady Mondegreen
Once upon a time, Dani Aubert and Ian George spent ten months driving around Europe, the UK and Ireland with...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2022
Planetario
The distinctive characteristic of Novalima has always been their focus on reinvigorating Afro-Peruvian music with new electronic fusions. On their...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Dreams of Andalusia
It was only a couple of issues ago that Joglaresa’s Dancing in Tetouan was reviewed in Songlines (#62) and it...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: March/2010
9 Dead Alive
After lavishly augmenting their acoustic guitars with a swinging Cuban orchestra on 2012’s Area 52, the ever-popular Mexican duo return...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2014
A Day Like Tomorrow
Fabian Holland has been praised for his guitar playing, which is fluid, elegant and blues-tinged but not over-elaborate. The same...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2015
Shadow and Light
There’s something pleasingly old-fashioned about John Doyle’s second solo outing. Arriving six years after Wayward Son saw him step out...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Six
Recently voted Scottish Folk Band of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards, Blazin’ Fiddles’ sixth album sees the...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Apr/May/2014
O Mistério
It hasn’t been easy since Teresa Salgueiro left Portugal’s Madredeus. While the band are still looking for a fitting substitute...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2012
Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu (1972-1991)
Imagine Somalia without suicide bombers and the murderous, al-Qaeda-linked militants of al-Shabaab. Picture instead Mogadishu as a part city in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2020
