Reviews
L'Ésprit Créole
With just a few years of performing and a handful of recordings behind him, Cedric Watson has fastened a firm...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2010
Past the Gates
Russian bands have only featured intermittently on the world music scene – one thinks of Sergei Starostin, the Terem Quartet...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2016
For the Night
Cool, hip, vibrant might alone be three words that sum up Elephant Sessions’ forth release, For the Night. Building on...
Reviewed by James Scott Rorison in issue: December/2022
Metamodal
Lyra, piano, bass and drums – given that line-up, one might expect the Greek instrument, played here by the virtuoso...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2019
Avant Folk
Frode Haltli is a classically trained Norwegian accordionist, accustomed to working in both folk and avant-garde music. On his latest...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: July/2018
Di Corsica Riposu; Requiem pour Deux Regards
Corsica In Repose; A Requiem of Two Visions is the album's title; looking both ways is the essence of what...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Ayó
Many Songlines readers will remember Andy Palacio, whose 2007 album Wàtina has become as much a classic for Belizean music...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: October/2013
Arbina
Following her international debut album that was one of the greats of 2014, it's absolutely no bad state of affairs...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2016
Perpetual Motion
Amine & Hamza's previous CD Things May Change managed to amaze and alarm in equal measure: a testosterone-driven, Oriental jazz...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: June/2011
