Reviews
Here and Now (Live at City Club)
Walid Ben Selim, from Casablanca, started out as a rapper, most notably leading contemporary Arabic-language band N3rdistan, but since then...
Reviewed by Jean Berry in issue: January/2025
Dankoroba
Dankoroba is Mali-born, Montréal-based Djely Tapa’s solid follow-up to 2021’s Barokan (reviewed in Songlines #164). Daughter of the venerable singer...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: January/2025
In Winter
A winter album has been on the to-do list of this brilliantly inventive art-folk ensemble for a decade and a...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: January/2025
Seiras
Finnish piano and harmonium virtuoso Timo Alakotila and the illustrious Tokyo-based accordionist Yuka Fujino unite in Seiras, a captivating blend...
Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: January/2025
Carnatic Nomad
This very effective album comes from Karnatak violinist Jyotsna Srikanth, ably supported by BC Manjunath on mridangam (barrel drum) and...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: November/2024
Kiho’alu: Stories in Song, Vol 1
How delightful to have a new album from Dancing Cat Records. Founded by George Winston in the early 80s, this...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: December/2024
100% Sahara Guitar
Etran de l’Aïr’s job is to make people move, playing at the weddings of the working-class Touareg of Agadez, Niger....
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2024
Coexistence
Korean duo Dal:um return for a second album of duelling gayageum and geomungo (plucked zithers from the Korean classical tradition)....
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2024
Macaronesia Vol. 1
Entre Ilhas is one of those projects that must be praised for its historical and conceptual relevance, being potentially the...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: September/2025
