Reviews Search | Songlines

Reviews

Review of Camilla

Camilla

Caroline Herring

Top of the World

Signature Sounds

Rating: ★★★★★

Caroline Herring was part of the Cecil Sharp Project, re-examining the Edwardian collector's catalogue of songs gathered from Britain and...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2012

Review of Woven Landscapes

Woven Landscapes

Karavan Sarai

Karavan Sarai

Rating: ★★

Karavan Sarai is a band led by composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Narayan Sijan, who plays a variety of Turkish and...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: March/2016

Review of Tewesta: Remembrance

Tewesta: Remembrance

Addis Acoustic Project

World Village

Rating: ★★★

On the surface there’s not a great deal to dislike about Tewesta (Remembrance), a new recording fronted by guitarist Girum...

Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of From the Rich Dark Earth

From the Rich Dark Earth

Abraham Brody

Abraham Brody

Rating: ★★★★

Singer and violinist Abraham Brody was born and raised in the US, but for the last five years has been...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2017

Review of Makedonissimo

Makedonissimo

Simon Trpceski & Friends

Linn Records

Rating: ★★★★

Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski has made a name for himself through bravura solo readings of Rachmaninov and Chopin, but appears...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: October/2020

Review of Getz/Gilberto ’76

Getz/Gilberto ’76

Stan Getz & João Gilberto

Resonance Records

Rating: ★★★★★

When João Gilberto and Tom Jobim slowed down samba and gave birth to bossa nova, a languorous song form that...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2016

Review of Ancestors

Ancestors

Érik Aliana

Top of the World

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

Built almost solely around the simple spine of his guitar, soulful voice and African percussion, the fourth album from the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2020

Review of Northern Light, Gambian Night

Northern Light, Gambian Night

Dawda Jobarteh

Top of the World

Sterns Music

Rating: ★★★★★

The Gambian kora player Amadou Bansang Jobarteh awoke many Western listeners to African music two decades ago, and now Dawda,...

Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: October/2011

Review of Taisa

Taisa

Mec Yek

Chouxsupde Bruxelles

Rating: ★★★★

Mec Yek is the meeting of Slovakian Roma sisters, Katia and Milka Pohlodkova, with the Belgian ‘Euro-roots outfit’ Jaune Toujours....

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2022

Review of Arirang and Minyo Singing

Arirang and Minyo Singing

Lee Chun-Hee

Ocora Radio France

Rating: ★★★★

Lee is a singer who has been deemed so culturally significant that the South Korean government awarded her the prestigious...

Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: July/2014

Subscribe from only £7.50

Start your journey and discover the very best music from around the world.

Subscribe

View the Current
Issue

Take a peek inside the latest issue of Songlines magazine.

Find out more