Reviews Search | Songlines

Reviews

Review of The Rough Guide to World Music

The Rough Guide to World Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

It's a quarter of a century since Phil Stanton's World Music Network label released its debut compilation, the first Rough...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2018

Review of Tàradh

Tàradh

Simon Thacker's Ritmata

Slap the Moon Records

Rating: ★★★★

Although the quartet have been making music together since 2006, this is Simon Tacker's Ritmata's debut album. It is worth...

Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: March/2020

Review of Solarius Gamma

Solarius Gamma

Ozferti

Humpty Dumpty Records

Rating: ★★

Florian Doucet is a producer, guitarist and graphic designer formerly of Afro-Colombian party starters La Chiva Gantiva, but his masked...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2021

Review of Shapes in Twilights of Infinity

Shapes in Twilights of Infinity

ESINAM

WERF Records

Rating: ★★★

ESINAM is a Belgian-Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist who creates cosmic soundscapes by fusing intricate rhythms, silvery flute, ethereal vocals, African percussion, spoken...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: December/2021

Review of State and Ancientry

State and Ancientry

Hannah James & Sam Sweeney

RootBeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

They've played together as a duo for a decade now. But these former Kerfuffle members keep busy: Sam Sweeney is...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2012

Review of Gisela João

Gisela João

Gisela João

Top of the World

Edições Valentim de Carvalho

Rating: ★★★★★

There is an infallible method to tell apart a remarkable singer from a merely very good one. Let's call it...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2015

Review of Skywire

Skywire

JPP

JPP

Rating: ★★★★

As a live experience, JPP are hard to beat. They’ve been together for over 30 years, having grown up in...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2015

Review of Thread

Thread

Sally Anne Morgan

Thrill Jockey Records

Rating: ★★★★

Vocalist and multiinstrumentalist Sally Anne Morgan is one of the central figures in a tidal movement among young(er) Appalachian and...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of A Long Engagement

A Long Engagement

Nickodemus

Wonderwheel Recordings

Rating: ★★★

New York DJ Nickodemus has never been one to stay isolated in the Big Apple. Drawing upon a myriad of...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: June/2018

Review of Noche de Carnaval

Noche de Carnaval

Juan Carlos Cáceres

Manana

Rating: ★★★

You have to give Juan Carlos Cáceres credit for productivity – and for effort. No sooner have we let one...

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

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