Reviews
Tarrwaysin & Rrways: A Journey into the Realm of Amazigh Wandering Poet-Singers
Tarrwaysin & Rrways is a landmark collection of new performances of more than 50 itinerant Amazigh (Berber) poets and singers...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2021
Live in New York 2010
The great Malian singer Khaira Arby died in 2018, so archive recordings have now become even more valuable. This 2010...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2021
Bad Old Songs
Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird
American-born, Berlin-based Daniel Kahn is one of the most interesting arrivals on the klezmer scene in the last few years....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2013
Life & Times
The first reaction on receiving yet another Lucky Dube compilation is to groan inwardly. Since the South African reggae star's...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2012
A Hajnali Csillag Ragyog
Tcha Limberger’s Kalotaszeg Trio
Violinist Tcha Limberger was born in Belgium to a Romani Gypsy father. His last disc, reviewed in Songlines #60, was...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2010
Corridos of the Chicano Movement
’To my mother I’m a Mexican, by destiny I’m American/I speak Spanish and English, I’m from the noble golden race’....
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2010
Tulipunapalsami
Brelo | Sytyke | Vilma Timonen Quartet
The Finns are particularly good at reinventing their music and folk instruments – thanks largely to the work of the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Over the Rainbow
Let’s dispense with the jokes first. The late great Hawaiian vocalist and ukulele player Israel ‘Iz’ Kama– kawiwo’ole was so...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2011
The Life & Times Of…
The Hot 8 Brass Band have every right to sing the blues. Forced to flee New Orleans due to Hurricane...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
American Legacies
Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Del McCoury Band
What's most surprising about this unlikely collaboration between two groups – one rooted in traditional New Orleans jazz, the other...
Reviewed by Roger Hahn in issue: July/2011
