Reviews
Shalom Salam
Senegalese reggae singer Niominka Bi, whose name means ‘the fisherman’ in the Wolof language, has been around on the French...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Apr/May/2010
The Karindula Sessions: Tradi-Modern Sounds From Southeast Congo
A giant banjo, made out of an oil barrel, a goat skin, four strings and an empty bag of powdered...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Apr/May/2011
Zoom
Rachid Taha's first album in four years is not quite in the same bracket as Muhammad Ali's retrieval of the...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: June/2013
Gobi Desert
Stretching across an expanse of terrain joining Central Asia to northern China, the Gobi Desert is the location of several...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2019
Mysterium Tremendum
As concept albums go, they hardly come any grander. On his latest release the former Grateful Dead drummer turned respected...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Jumbie in the Jukebox
‘I would choose to live back when calypso brought the news’, sings Drew Gonsalves in the opening seconds of Jumbie...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2013
Qalaq
Born in Beirut at the outset of a civil war that devastated his country and set the pattern for decades...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: December/2021
Plastic Bouquet
Songlines readers of a certain vintage and musical proclivity will recall It’s a Beautiful Day, a San Francisco- based folk-rock...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/2021
Picaflor
If this album had been credited to Los Hijos de Bruhn you’d be in no doubt that this is the...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Horse Camp
The Lowest Pair & Small Town Therapy
In 2020, while camping in the Pacific Northwest, Kendl Winter (vocals, banjo, guitar) and Palmer T Lee (vocals, banjo, guitar),...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2023
