Reviews
As We Speak
Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer & Rakesh Chaurasia
The last time Songlines interviewed Béla Fleck, he had briefly set aside his global adventures to return to the music...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Come Back To Me
Originally from the Ivory Coast Peter One emigrated to the US to escape Civil War. Prior to this, he released...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
ASAP Inşallah
For the past dozen years, the electronic music duo Zuzu Zakaria & Tatu Metsätähti have intrigued with their raw blend...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
El Sonido de Fingier Records
Kevin Fingier & The Kevin Fingier Collective
Any track entitled ‘Latin Dynamite’ suggests to this jaundiced mind one of those tawdry cover albums of chart hits found...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Traversées
The Samaïa trio consists of vocalists Eléonore Fourniau, Noémie Nael and Luna Silva, who weave together musical influences from Anatolia,...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Taraf Syriana
The four-piece Taraf Syriana is made up of virtuoso musicians from Syria, Lebanon, Moldova and Switzerland, now based in Montréal....
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Tropikadelic
Ireke (meaning ‘Sugar Cane’ in Yoruba) are a French duo with musical bona fides and a range of friends to...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Bamako
Hailing from Budapest but now resident in Canada, Lukacs grew up with Hungarian Jewish folk music and trained on the...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Ghazals and Thumris: From the Musical Heart of Budapest
Pratibha Singh Baghel, Kavya Limaye, Deepak Pandit, The Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Ghazal and thumri are wonderful poetic sung genres from northern South Asia, emerging out of 19th-century courtesan and Muslim traditions...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
