Reviews
Out of Many: 50 Years of Reggae Music
Marking the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence, this compilation is named after the island’s motto, ‘Out of Many,’ Drawing on...
Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Mariachi Reyna de Los Ángeles
There ought to be nothing surprising about an all-female mariachi band, but this particular branch of Mexican music has such...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2018
Sunday Never Comes
The global music community is beginning to notice another pioneering band from Portland, Oregon that has built a devoted local...
Reviewed by Jeff Hammarlund in issue: July/2012
Buena Vista Social Club: 25th Anniversary Edition
Readers of Songlines will need no reminder of how the combination of Ry Cooder's meticulous production, a cast of veteran...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2021
On The Move
Firstly (as he must surely be heartily sick of hearing by now), this Colin Farrell is not the famously rowdy...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
The Journey
Herbie Hancock was reputedly knocked out by Benin-born Lionel Loueke's guitar playing. It is indeed something special. On ‘Guira’, he...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2019
Ne Ka Mali!!
Amkoullel's Mali is a little different to the West African country of koras and calabashes, Toumanis and Djelimadys, percussion ensembles,...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2011
Simply Zouk
The four-CD Simply Zouk, compiled by veteran DJ John Armstrong, charts the development of the French Antillean genre from its...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: March/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
