Reviews
Voice of Flowers: Spring Ragas from India
Baluji Shrivastav is a UK-based Indian classical musician who, although blind from the age of eight months, has gone on...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2021
Sky Songs
Alena Murang is a singer and sapé player from Sarawak on the island of Borneo, Malaysia. One of the indigenous...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2021
Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound
Along with the magnificent Konono No 1, Kasai Allstars played a key role in the Congotronics movement, creating wild, hypnotic...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2021
Notes For a Maiden Warrior
Borders run through Dani Larkin’s life and work. A native of the Armagh/ Monaghan borderlands, she has worked in peace-building...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2021
There is No End
When this reviewer interviewed Allen for Songlines in 2020 just before lockdown, we talked mostly about Rejoice, his collaborative album...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2021
Unknown Nearness
Misagh Joolaee is an Iranian kamancheh (spike fiddle) player based in Berlin. His solo album Ferne (2019) was surely the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2021
Leave the Bones
The pairing of Haitian ensemble Lakou Mizik and Grammy-winning electro wiz Joseph Ray is unlikely, sure, but only on paper....
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2021
Laysongs
Nowhere has master mandolinist Thile’s formidable artistry been more fully realized than on Laysongs. Urged on by Nonesuch Records honcho...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2021
Tili Saba
This is an excellent example of a contemporary interpretation of the kora. Susso was born into a griot family in...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2021
