Reviews
Busco Paraíso
We don’t hear enough music from Chile. Many nueva canción singers are dead or retired. Survivors such as Inti-Illimani and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2015
La Vida Llega
This album heralds a double return: Pepe Luis’ reappearance after his time as singer with the flamenco-pop band La Barbería...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: April/2016
The Fade in Time
Sam Lee has wandered throughout the UK and Ireland learning songs, and how to sing them, from travellers and Gypsies,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2015
Plastic Bouquet
Songlines readers of a certain vintage and musical proclivity will recall It’s a Beautiful Day, a San Francisco- based folk-rock...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/2021
De Kaboul à Bamako
This is a compilation of somewhat random tracks from across the Middle East and Africa that have been packaged as...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2020
Bako
In case we don’t know quite what to call this, those kind folks over at Norway’s EM Label have come...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2011
Picaflor
If this album had been credited to Los Hijos de Bruhn you’d be in no doubt that this is the...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
UNITE: A Gathering of Strangers
Hamid Man Tu and Tim Whelan of Transglobal Underground have fashioned an ambitious pan-European project around the banner of UNITE...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2010
