Reviews
Set Me Free
Keyna Wilkins & Jalal Mahamede
Last year from his detention cell in Brisbane, Ahwazi Arab refugee poet-artist Jalal Mahamede recited his poems via Zoom while...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Tierra Quemada
Largely self-taught, clawhammer banjoist, fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter Paul Tasker renders the nine instrumental compositions on Tierra Quemada with sparkling...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
From Transylvania
Where is the meeting point between Romanian folklore and Jamaican-influenced dub? Lil Obeah, from Transylvania, is there, with hints of...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Fiat Lux
Tarta Relena – Barcelona-based singers Helena Ros and Marta Torrella – was born in 2016 out of a project to...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Breathe Out
Having grown up at somewhat of a crossroads between Britain, France and Spain, Luna Silva, fortified by fellow musicians The...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Nar
Singer Christiane Karam draws on both her Lebanese and Armenian heritage to deliver a richly textured and multilayered album that...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
The Age of Aquarius
There have been a lot of releases in recent years by European acts incorporating Asian pop and even traditional instrumentation...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Little Hammam
When Songlines reviewed Ouesh Hada?, the 2013 debut album from Temenik Electric, we suggested it would be thrilling to hear...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
The Long Count
On Animus, her 2018 debut album, Mexican-American producer-musician Delia Beatriz aka Debit explored metallic soundscapes, frantic club grooves, pulsing sequences...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Vox.Infold
Ruby Singh is a Canadian musician, composer, filmmaker and sound designer fascinated with mythos, memory, identity and fantasy. He works...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
