Reviews
Dori Freeman
Dori Freeman is a singer-songwriter from the town of Galax, Virginia – a tiny place in the Appalachian mountains and...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2016
The Sun Will Rise (A Cappella)
Mahsa Vahdat is one of few female singers living in Iran to record regularly outside the country, largely through the...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: July/2016
Between River and Railway
Dumfries and Galloway have always been a fertile ground for powerful Scottish singers and songwriters and it is clear this...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2016
Libraries on Fire
Since Songlines first championed the South African guitarist Derek Gripper following his 2012 album One Night on Earth, his transpositions...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2016
Tikounen
Can you have too many Touareg guitar records? Not when they’re as potent as this second album from Kel Assouf,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2016
Trotro
When Brian Shimkovitz, owner of the Awesome Tapes from Africa label, asked Ghanaian DJ Katapila if he could re-release his...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2016
Tocororo
This young Cuban jazz pianist's third album starts with a radical reinvention of the old Compay Segundo favourite, ‘Chan Chan’:...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2016
Punk Islands
For Indian Ocean music aficionados, M’Toro Chamou of Mayotte is no new kid on the block. Since 1998, we have...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: June/2016
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Highlife-Jazz and Afro-Soul (1963-1969)
Fela Ransome Kuti and His Koola Lobitos
No other African musician has garnered as much global interest as Fela Kuti – Nigeria's creator of Afrobeat. His appeal...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2016
