Reviews
A Beginner’s Guide
Readers of Songlines will already be familiar with Jim Moray’s latest CD, In Modern History, which was pre¬released with the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2010
Egypt Noir
The idea behind this album is to present the music of the Africans from the deserts that encompass most of...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: July/2010
The Turning Tide
Crikey, another Solas album? It seems only a moment ago that I reviewed the band’s For Love and Laughter. OK,...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: July/2010
Gamelan of Java Volume One: Kraton Kasunanan
Not content with overseeing Felmay's series of recordings, John Noise Manis – aka the Italian composer Giovanni Sciarrino (manis is...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: July/2010
Stranger in my Homeland
Born in 1970 in Shfara'am, a small town near Nazareth in Galilee, Hosam Hayek created several ensembles in his homeland,...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: July/2010
Hearts & Minds
Hearts & Minds begins with a riff reminiscent of Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranoid’. Which is somewhat surprising, given that Lakeman described...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2010
Along the Silk Road: Ancient and Modern Music for the Kugo
Ancient and modern music for the what? Listening blind to this instrument, you’d be forgiven for mistaking it for the...
Reviewed by Michael Church in issue: July/2010
Things That Fly
If you like peppery banjo picking and close male harmonies – and you should if you're a bluegrass fan –...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: July/2010
Nouvelle Calédonie: Voix des Rivages et des Montagnes
Music from New Caledonia – a little-known French colony in Melanesia, midway between Fiji and Australia – is, well, little...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2010
Acoustic Accordions
Motion Trio are three Polish accordion players: Janusz Wojtarowicz, Pawel Baranek and Marcin Galazyn. Since their debut CD, Pictures from...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2010
