Reviews
The Smoky Smirr o Rain
Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola
The air is filled with moisture as you gaze out over the shores of a Scottish loch, a Norwegian fjord...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2021
Lai Māsiņa Rotājās!
Subtlety is the last thing you might expect from a band of massed bagpipers, accompanied by serried drums including ‘one...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2018
Bhutan Himalaya: Folk Music from Bhutan
This album seems to hark back to earlier, more simple times. Bhutan, bordering India and Tibet, conjures up images of...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: May/2017
Diivan Jäljet
The Finnish accordionist Johanna Juhola is a Björk-like figure: enigmatic, daring, witty, unpredictable, warm, passionate and utterly brilliant. She's been...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2018
Dai Raft
When Afghan Hazara musician Hamid Sakhizada fled his country and moved to Norway in 2016, he found not only a...
Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: March/2020
Plight o’ Sheep
It's a powerful, muscular sound that characterises the new release from the intrepid Scots trio. Hard to believe it has...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2023
KAL
Billed as a ‘companion piece’ to 2022's KALAK, which earned a Songlines Music Award for what we called its ‘urgent,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2023
Motewolonuwok
When Jeremy Dutcher released his first opus, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, in 2018, very few people outside the classical world had heard...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: November/2023
Tusona: Tracings in the Sand
Mokoomba are back at last, six years on from their last album Luyando and ten years after winning a Songlines...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2023
