Reviews
The Art of the Cheolhyeongeum Sanjo
Sanjo is a popular Korean folk-art genre that builds as a sequence of movements, beginning slow and emotional, gradually increasing...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: March/2016
In the Mood for the Nouba
For serious students of North African music and aficionados of the rarified and demanding canon of Arab– Andalus poetic tradition,...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: July/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
The Rough Guide to Arabic Lounge
Lounge – it's a tricky old concept. ‘Mood music that evoked exotic elsewheres’ is how the liner notes define its...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2010
The Transports: A Tale of Exile and Migration
In 1973, the Norfolk singer Peter Bellamy came across the story of Susannah Holmes and Henry Kable, who, their death...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2018
Genius Loci 2: The Valley of Iron
This is the second part of the Genius Loci project from the prolific instrumental duo of fiddler Adam Summerhayes and...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2022
Swingin’ Live at the Church in Tulsa
Now in his 80s, Taj Mahal is the grand old man of American roots music and follows 2022’s old-timey Get...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2024
Music of the Bai Opera and the Dai Opera in Yunnan Province
This double CD album is a rare archive of the Bai and Dai music traditions. Both ethnic minorities are from...
Reviewed by Yijia Tu in issue: May/2020
Impromptu
Angelo Debarre, born in St-Denis, France, starte d playing guitar at the age of eight. A member of the Manouche...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Light a Candle
Forró is an eternally sunny, jiggy dance from north¬eastern Brazil that became very popular in the 1990s with the São...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
