Reviews
Slåttesong
“It’s great to be at a point where it’s the music that’s in focus and not where it comes from.”...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Reclusive Rituals
In his first album for Batov Records, Tel Aviv-based jazz bassist Shay Hazan takes his sound in a different direction....
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2022
Chants of India
Ravi Shankar | Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan
HariSongs is a new label set up to re-release some of the music in the family archive of the late...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Assaf
Sometimes an artist's story overshadows almost entirely their actual music. Such is the case here, where Mohammed Assaf has become...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: July/2016
Funeral Songs
There's a bitter aftertaste to this album. The latest in Glitterbeat's acclaimed Hidden Musics series, it should be an absorbing...
Reviewed by Timothy Clarke-Romain in issue: June/2020
The Master
Warren Cuccurullo & Ustad Sultan Khan
The West has been actively seeking out musical meetings with the East ever since Ali Akbar Khan and Ravi Shankar...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Nobody Knows You
One thing that quickly becomes apparent about the Steep Canyon Rangers is that they don’t quite have the degree of...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: October/2012
KG Westman & Zaعfaran
This unlikely mash-up of music and musicians from India, Egypt and Sweden is, perhaps against the odds, a resounding success....
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: August/September/2022
20sth
Perhaps the first thing to point out – although it’s not immediately noticeable on first listen – is that this...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: May/2017
Mabruk
In the last issue, Songlines reviewed the latest album from Mariem Hassan, a leading singer and activist in the independence...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2012
