Reviews
Windblown
Jamie Smith’s Mabon, the five-piece featuring accordion, fiddle, bouzouki, banjo, bass and percussion, draw their musical inspirations from the Celtic...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Orfeo
Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party
The title-track of Orfeo is a version of the Orpheus and Eurydice story dating from the 13th century, via a...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2012
Afro Rock Vol 1
Originally released in 2001 on the Kona label, Afro Rock Volume 1 now receives a thoroughly welcome reissue on Strut,...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2010
The American Clavé Recordings
Astor Piazzolla took tango out of the ballroom and out of Argentina. Producer and label founder Kip Hanrahan’s mid-1980s recordings...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2022
Un Hombre de Buenos Aires
Jazz and tango had parallel evolutions, emerging in marginalised areas, gravitating to their respective centres and then going global. When...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2024
Vitsa
Takimi of Epirus | Yiannis Chaldoupis & Moukliomos
I was bowled over by the sound quality and track selection on the UK label JSP's archival rebetika box-set of...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: July/2015
Il Soffio dell’Otre
Zampogna, the Italian double-chantered pipe, still livens up secular and religious festivities alike in southern Italy. Traditional musicians and revivalists...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Móntate en el Viaje
Wrapped in tacky artwork that recalls 80s über-novelty hit ‘Agadoo’, Móntate en el Viaje is the brainchild of Medellin’s Mauricio...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2013
Agitator
Many Songlines readers will know Radik Tyulyush through his long-term involvement with the Tuvan throat-singing ‘supergroup,’ Huun-Huur-Tu. Although he spent...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2017
