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Review of Sorousian

Sorousian

Tio

Top of the World

Wantok Musik

Rating: ★★★★★

With little contemporary music from Vanuatu available internationally, this debut from singer-songwriter Tio Bang is a most welcome release. A...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: December/2020

Review of Moreland’s Ball

Moreland’s Ball

The Woohoo Revue

The Woohoo Revue

Rating: ★★★★

Melbourne ensemble The Woohoo Revue are one of those groups that’s impossible to categorise. Most would call them a ‘Gypsy’...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2012

Review of A Pilgrim's Tale

A Pilgrim's Tale

Seth Lakeman

BMG

Rating: ★★★

This year sees the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower setting sail with 102 passengers, mostly religious refugees, for a new...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2020

Review of Vinyl Box Set #5

Vinyl Box Set #5

Fela Kuti

Partisan Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Fela Kuti’s vast and sprawling catalogue has been repackaged and repurposed, anthologised and annotated countless times since his death in...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2022

Review of Quest

Quest

Out of Nations

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★

Although dwelling in Berlin, the Out of Nations six-piece soon discovered that each of them had passports for different countries,...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2018

Review of Koonyum Sun

Koonyum Sun

Xavier Rudd & Izintaba

Anti Records ANTI69682

Rating: ★★

How many people who’ve appeared in the 70-odd issues of Songlines have ever been anointed with the title ‘World’s Sexiest...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: October/2010

Review of Rainy Season Blues

Rainy Season Blues

Lobi Traoré

Glitterhouse Records

Rating: ★★★★

The last session the Malian guitarist Lobi Traoré recorded before his death in June this year at the age of...

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

Review of World Music

World Music

Joseph Tawadros

Joseph Tawadros

Rating: ★★★★

Still in his early 30s, Australian-Egyptian oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros has already released a dozen albums, three of which won...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2016

Review of Hunting Eagles Catching Swans

Hunting Eagles Catching Swans

Gao Hong & Friends | Lin Shicheng & Gao Hong

Top of the World

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★★

Lin Shicheng (1922-2005), the late master of the Pudong School of pipa playing, was one of the most highly regarded...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: January/2021

Review of Musicatelama

Musicatelama

Mose Fan Fan

LAA Records

Rating: ★★★★

Guitarist, composer and occasional singer Mose Fan Fan is one of the few survivors of Congo’s Orchestre OK Jazz to...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

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