Reviews
Torb
One day Songlines will have to invent a prize for ‘most niche’ music genre and performer. Catalan medieval folk will...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2020
Calaita Flamenco Son
Two years of intense gigging is very much in evidence on this confident flamenco fusion debut. Calaita Flamenco Son was...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2014
Kolida Babo
This is an intriguing experiment by two Greek exponents of the duduk, an Armenian oboe. Socratis Votskos and Harris P...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Moda Antiga
On this, her third album, the Cape Verdean singer hailed as a worthy successor to the great Cesária Évora focuses...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: February/March/2025
Halo’s Glitter
South African/Zimbabwean singer Nongoma Ndlovu teams up with Swiss percussionist Fabio Meier for a set of ‘Afro Soul Tronic’, a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2025
_f01.jpg)
Patagonia (OST)
How do you get Carlos Gardél, Duffy and Bryn Terfel into the same box? By making an awful film about...
Reviewed by Chris Mos in issue: July/2011
Cuckoo
Toronto-based Lemon Bucket Orchestra are Canada's version of Gogol Bordello and, like Eugene Hütz, it seems a good many of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2024
Un Canadien Errant
This is a three-way collaboration between Québécois fiddle and piano playing singer Sophie Lavoie, and uilleann piper and banjo player...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2017
Taling Dimalu: Beautiful Tales
Kora player Kadialy Kouyaté has woven a stellar reputation since arriving in London from Casamance, southern Senegal in 2003. Born...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2019
