Reviews
Their First Album
The first four albums by the Incredible String Band summon up the spirit of the far side of the 60s...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2010
African Homeland: Voices & Rhythms From Zimbabwe and Southern Africa
We're no doubt going to be hearing a lot of music from South Africa in the run-up to the soccer...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2010
Tango 3.0
The release of Vuelvo Al Sur/El Capitalismo Foraneo in 2000 and, a year later, La Revancha del Tango changed the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2010
Vital
Tango is one of those realms where Songlines’ already wide-open world music remit frequently brushes dandruff-speckled shoulders with the classical...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2010
Skir
As all the tracks here are instrumental, you can only imagine what lies behind them. Thankfully, we have the short...
Reviewed by Elisavet Sotiriadou in issue: June/2010
The Playback Queen: the Very Best of Asha Bhosle
Aptly titled The Playback Queen, this compilation captures four decades of Asha Bhosle's extensive repertoire – up to the 1990s...
Reviewed by Kulbir Natt in issue: Apr/May/2010
El Gaucho
El Gaucho is the superbly atmospheric soundtrack to Andrés Jarach's documentary road movie about Andrés Retamal, a taciturn Argentinian horse–...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2010
ABCDEFG
The Chumbas are never short of a thing or two to say and on their latest album it’s music itself...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2010
Maiteí America: Harps of Paraguay
Most of the music here consists of harps and nothing else. Yet this album is a little beauty. Twenty of...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2010
