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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Gao Hong & Friends | Lin Shicheng & Gao Hong
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
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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