Reviews Search | Songlines

Reviews

Review of Rumba con Flores

Rumba con Flores

Eliane Correa & En el Aire Project

Cezanne Producciones

Rating: ★★★

This young, classically trained pianist, composer and arranger shares her time between London, Barcelona and Havana, and her creative energies...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2016

Review of Stargazer

Stargazer

Ensemble Ériu

Diatribe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Inspired by the expressionist paintings of Jack Butler Yeats (brother of the poet WB Yeats), Stargazer positions Ensemble Ériu as...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2017

Review of Arbina

Arbina

Noura Mint Seymali

Top of the World

Glitterbeat

Rating: ★★★★

Following her international debut album that was one of the greats of 2014, it's absolutely no bad state of affairs...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2016

Review of Tirana 100

Tirana 100

Tirana-Tirona Allstars

Top of the World

Municipality of Tirana

Rating: ★★★★

Over the last half a century or so there have been many attempts to reveal ‘Europe’s unknown music,’ which usually...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: May/2021

Review of Dedicated to the Bird We Love

Dedicated to the Bird We Love

Oriental Sunshine

Round 2 Records

Rating: ★★

Upon its release in 1970, this debut LP from Norwegian psychedelic-folk trio Oriental Sunshine was called by a reviewer in...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: March/2017

Review of Traces of You

Traces of You

Anoushka Shankar

Deutsche Grammophon

Rating: ★★★★

This album is certainly Anoushka’s most personal to date, as most of the tracks are inspired by, or in memory...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

Review of Nazar

Nazar

Turkwaz

Top of the World

Turkwaz

Rating: ★★★★★

I’ve been a fan of Canadian singer Brenna MacCrimmon for nearly two decades; back when she was a resident of...

Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: April/2018

Review of May

May

The Sweet Lowdown

The Sweet Lowdown

Rating: ★★★

You may well have seen and enjoyed The Sweet Lowdown on their first UK tour recently. They’re an award-winning, all-female...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Fire Under the Bridge

Fire Under the Bridge

Pons Aelius

Pons Aelius Music

Rating: ★★★

This sextet of folk musicians came together in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in northern England, in the shadow of the mighty Tyne Bridge,...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2020

Review of Tous les Parfums

Tous les Parfums

Solia

homerecords.be

Rating: ★★★

Solia (Sun) is Raquel Gigot (accordion) and Marielle Vancamp (nyckelharpa) from Belgium. The duo’s debut digs into the repertoire of...

Reviewed by Anne Girard in issue: March/2022

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