Reviews
BAMANAN
On the surface of it, Irish-born, US-based stadium rock producer Jacknife Lee seems an improbable choice to helm the debut...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2022
One Voice
An 11-piece band from the small indigenous community of Baniyala, situated on Blue Mud Bay in the Top End’s Gulf...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/February/2023
A New Day – Laya Project Remixed
Back in #59, Songlines reviewed a singular music project that saw producer and composer Patrick Sebag go in search of...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Silence
Coşkun Karademir, Tord Gustavsen, Derya Türkan & Ömer Arslan
A master of the traditional Turkish long-neck lutes, Coşkun Karademir has released several remarkably adventurous recordings. With The Secret Ensemble...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: November/2021
$/He Who Feeds You…Owns You
In a terrific transition from the protest music of their last album, Tolika Mtoliki, The Brother Moves On's fourth record...
Reviewed by Diane Coetzer in issue: December/2022
Arenig
Hailing from Snowdonia, the young singer, song collector and instrumentalist Gwilym Bowen Rhys was a member of rock band Y...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2019
Rio Bossa
Even if you weren’t all Rio’d-out after the wall-to-wall Olympics coverage, you’d probably need another bossa nova compilation about as...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: December/2016
Quesaco?
Paris Combo are an iconic Parisian band, carried by the voice and the twinkling presence of Bénédicte Grimault, aka Belle...
Reviewed by Anne Ge in issue: August/September/2022
