Reviews
Mangekyou
The album’s title translates as ‘Kaleidoscope’, appropriately describing the mix of funk and soul and hints towards a Japanese soundworld...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: January/2025
Dankoroba
Dankoroba is Mali-born, Montréal-based Djely Tapa’s solid follow-up to 2021’s Barokan (reviewed in Songlines #164). Daughter of the venerable singer...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: January/2025
A Ukrainian Wedding
Cappella Romana & Nadia Tarnawski
The order of a modern wedding has become standardised across the world: an engagement followed by a wedding ceremony with...
Reviewed by Yurii Bereza in issue: January/2025
Giorgos Katsaros
This is both a fabulous historical document and a musical treat from the rebetika heyday of Greek émigrés to the...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: January/2025
Alma Enamorada
Fifteen more corridos (narrative songs) from the ‘Godfather’ of the genre. Backed by the accordion and polka rhythms of a...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/2025
100% Sahara Guitar
Etran de l’Aïr’s job is to make people move, playing at the weddings of the working-class Touareg of Agadez, Niger....
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2024
Antologia, Vol 2
Les Disques Bongo Joe and crate-digger DJ Tom B seem to be on a mission to bring wider attention to...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2024
Àbòr Édín
Recorded between Accra and Oregon ‘and various hotel rooms on the road,’ Àbòr Édín – it translates from Afroso’s Gãdangmé...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2024
