Reviews
Música Universal
A capella music is surely even more of a matter of taste than Marmite, Jeremy Corbyn or coprophilia. While I...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2019
Keep Hauling (Music from the Movie)
Thirty years ago a group of friends – some actually fishermen – got together on the Platt (the hard ground...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2019
The Sea is My Brother
The fourth studio album from Devon folk duo David Harbottle and Freya Jonas is a concept album about the sea....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2019
Bahir
Where the rhythms and grooves of West Africa have been embraced across the planet, absorbed into the mainstream and melded...
Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: May/2019
This is Frafra Power
This is Frafra Power is one of those rare treats of a compilation album that gives what by all accounts...
Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: May/2019
Alfabeto Runico
Active since 2003, Alfabeto Runico are the fruit, first and foremost, of the friendship between the three band members. Marta...
Reviewed by Megan Iacobini de fazio in issue: May/2019
Naming & Blaming
The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra
This is the second album from the Melbourne-based Public Opinion Afro Orchestra and it is unabashedly Afrobeat. The group take...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019
Wahala Wahala
Wahala means ‘Problem’ or ‘Trouble’, but I had no problem enjoying this album. It is high-energy and punchy, as you'd...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: May/2019
The Art of the Vietnamese Zither: Đàn Tranh
Tri Nguyen's mission is to bring the đàn tranh (zither) to new audiences by combining Vietnamese traditions with Western classical...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: May/2019
Love & Stillness
Drummer Tom Bancroft is probably best known to Songlines readers through having worked with the Grit Orchestra, which brought the...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2019
