Reviews
Relke Meto
Malawian musician Happy Mphande's Relke Meto opens with the title-track, a percussion-heavy beat that sets the tempo for the rest...
Reviewed by Jack McBrams in issue: March/2023
Crying Bamboos: Ceremonial Flute Music from New Guinea Madang
Recorded in 1979 by UK-based anthropologist Ragnar Johnson, these field recordings complement Johnson's previous collection Sacred Flute Music from New...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Night + Day
With their debut album winning a Grammy for Best New Age Album back in 2019, the sophomore release from this...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: December/2021
Ghost
In her first album of all-new material since 2010, Rusby plays a set of traditional and original songs loosely themed...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Poems from Szék
The Transylvanian village of Szék occupies an important place in the Hungarian folk tradition. It’s situated in Romania, but the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/September/2022
The Wind Horse
Anda Union were Songlines ‘ favourite band at WOMAD this summer. From Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia (the part...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Au Bout du Petit Matin
Tao Ravao is a Madagascan-born musician with a French father and Malagasy mother whose family name he uses professionally. He...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2017
Contracorriente
Contracorriente, the third album from El Balcón, is alive with the unique vibrancy and musical playfulness of son jarocho, traditional...
Reviewed by Kary Stewart in issue: November/2021
