Reviews
France: An Anthology of Traditional Music
It's become a cliché when writing about cultural diversity in France to trot out the old de Gaulle maxim about...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: June/2010
All Smiles Tonight
We’ve yet to fully metabolise our experiences of the pandemic. We can relive facts of the time, list off the...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: August/2025
Comfort Food
Indo-Canadian singer Kiran Ahluwalia has flown somewhat under the radar in Europe, winning Songlines’ 2009 Best Newcomer award only after...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2024
Weapon of Choice
Airileke Ingram is a Melbourne-based percussionist/producer who's been omnipresent in the Australian world music scene since the mid-90s. Raised in...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Apr/May/2013
London’s Calling
The two weeks of sport at the core of the London Olympics seem to have spawned a summer-long fiesta of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Frankie and the No-Go Road
A concept album that follows the trials and tribulations of an everyman hero named Frankie in his struggles through life,...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2016
Djarimirri: Child of the Rainbow
The 2017 death of Aboriginal musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu at the age of 46 was a loss felt not only...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
C’est La Vie
Many listeners admired the king of rai’s last couple of albums, notably Liberté, which heard his characterful voice unchained from...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: June/2013
Can't You Hear the Mountains Calling
Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys feat Charlie Sizemore
From the time he formed the original Clinch Mountain Boys with his brother Carter Stanley, while bluegrass music was in...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2010
The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
The recordings of Lead Belly, made between his discovery in prison in 1933 by the folklorists John and Alan Lomax...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2015
