Reviews
The Heart Whispers and Whirls (Excerpts)
Melbourne’s The Resonant Heart is a collective of CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) and BIPOC women and female-identifying artists. This...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: October/2025
Ghazel
Formed in 2022, the collaboration between the Lebanese duo of buzuq player Farah Kaddour and guitarist/producer Marwan Tohme is a...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2025
The Dome Sessions
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Designed in 1962 by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, the concrete dome in Tripoli, Lebanon was intended to be one of...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2025
Toumaro
If it wasn’t for Salif Keita, Kassé Mady Diabaté would surely have been recognised as the finest male vocalist in...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: September/2025
Mirrormouth
Irish singer, composer, performance artist and puppeteer, Branwen Kavanagh's Mirrormouth shepherds us through a pensive, wistful landscape. Surrealism – both...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: September/2025
Shadows
Shadows is an avant-garde exploration of South East Asian musical traditions. Like the shadow puppetry that Indonesian gamelan often accompanies,...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: September/2025
Undercover Beast
Langendorf United scooped a Grammy Award, plus a Top of the World album pick in Songlines in 2023, for their...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: September/2025
Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean was first released in 2014, following a transformative invitation by filmmaker Robert Gordon to record at Royal Studios...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: December/2025
Underwater Cairngorms
Mhairi Hall & David de la Haye
A collaboration between composer Mhairi Hall and field recordist David de la Haye, Underwater Cairngorms combines sounds captured from below...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2025
As It Comes
Belgian composer and multi-instrumentalist Ward Dhoore has made fairly regular appearances in these pages as a member of such forward-thinking...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2025
