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Review of Island Catch

Island Catch

Chung Yufeng & David Chen

Trees Music & Art

Rating: ★★★

This is the second full-length release from Taiwanese pipa player Yufeng and American singer and acoustic guitarist Chen, and the...

Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: April/2021

Review of 1973-1980

1973-1980

Amara Touré

Top of the World

Analog Africa

Rating: ★★★★★

Born in Guinea-Conakry, singer and percussionist Amara Touré wandered peripatetically across West African music for 20 or so years –...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015

Review of Ancoradouro

Ancoradouro

Vila Navio

Vila Navio

Rating: ★★

It is no minor achievement to have secured the blessing of Fausto Bordalo Dias. He is a key figure in...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2016

Review of Connections

Connections

AR Rahman

Wrasse

Rating: ★★

When they collaborated on the Bombay Dreams musical a few years ago, Andrew Lloyd Webber declared Rahman to be ‘the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Rock & Roll Jihad

Rock & Roll Jihad

Junoon

Nameless Sufi Music

Rating: ★★★

Junoon have been Pakistan’s leading rock group for the last 20 years, but the latest release under the banner is...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Tastes Like LA

Tastes Like LA

Las Cafeteras

Las Cafeteras

Rating: ★★★

So diverse is Latin American music that most artists, when they come to fusions, choose a couple of elements and...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2017

Review of Sunny Afrika

Sunny Afrika

Herman Asafo-Agyei

Upbeat Global

Rating: ★★★

After his professional musical start in Ghana in the 1970s as a member of the group Basa Basa at Faisal...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2019

Review of Hand to Earth

Hand to Earth

Australian Art Orchestra, Daniel Wilfred, David Wilfred, Sunny Kim, Peter Knight & Aviva Endean

Top of the World

AAO Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

A collaboration initiated by the Melbourne-based Australian Art Orchestra, Hand to Earth is an adventurously creative project. The Australian Art...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2021

Review of Transcendence

Transcendence

Mashkoor Ali Khan

Nimbus Records

Rating: ★★★★

Most Songlines’ readers will not have heard of Mashkoor Ali Khan, an Indian classical vocalist who sings khayal, an ornamented...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2017

Review of Bon Bon

Bon Bon

Dai & the Ramblers

Just Peachy Records

Rating: ★★★★

Somewhere in the polyglot roots garden, twined between Cajun, indie-folk, R&B, Gypsy jazz and a few other things, reside Dai...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2017

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