Reviews
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
The Journey
Herbie Hancock was reputedly knocked out by Benin-born Lionel Loueke's guitar playing. It is indeed something special. On ‘Guira’, he...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2019
The Portage
Are there really only four fiddles on this third release from RANT? Such is the richness of sound that I...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: December/2019
The Road
I first came across Mamak Khadem when I reviewed her solo album Jostojoo in 2008. A couple of years later,...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2016
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
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
Studies in Bossa
Following on from assorted Azymuth-related releases over the last few years, Far Out keep it in the family with this...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Apr/May/2011
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
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
