Reviews

Braziliance!

Marcos Valle

‘First came Gilberto, then Jobim, and now MARCOS VALLE BRAZILIANCE!’ runs the breathless blurb on the original sleeve of this...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: April/2020

Body & Voice

Gino Sitson

Gino Sitson is a New York-based vocalist from the Bamileke region of Cameroon, whose family comes from a long line...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: March/2017

Telegrafy

Banda

Active since 2003, Banda are one of the leading folk bands in Slovakia. This is their fourth album. The six-piece...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2019

Kardeş

Divanhana

The movement in Bosnian music known as new sevdah, a recasting of a traditional urban song style with Slav, Turkish...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2019

No Ama

Nancy Vieira

The daughter of a diplomat, Nancy Vieira was born in Guinea Bissau, grew up in the Cape Verdean capital, Praia,...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2012

Chapter I: Forever, For Now

Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka Shankar’s last significant release, Love Letters, released in 2020 on Mercury Classics, was a very personal collection of songs...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2023

Transcendence

Mashkoor Ali Khan

Most Songlines’ readers will not have heard of Mashkoor Ali Khan, an Indian classical vocalist who sings khayal, an ornamented...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2017

Cameos

Mark Cain

Mark Cain lives in Fremantle, Australia, and specialises in a highly impressive number of reed and other wind instruments, as...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2021

The Queen of Turquoise

Basel Rajoub

Born in Aleppo and a graduate of the Damascus Conservatory, saxophonist and composer Rajoub – who now lives in exile...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2016

Hermit’s Grove

Wax Machine

Wax Machine is the brainchild of Brazilian-born, Italian and British-raised musician Lau Ro. After emigrating to Europe at eight years...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: October/2022