Reviews
Line-Up
Like Fairport Convention, Battle– field Band have a good four decades of music-making behind them, drawing on the rich heritage...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2011
Hongo Calling
Billed as the new soul voice of Cameroon, Blick Bassy is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and percussionist whose Bassa-language solo debut...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2011
How to Tune a Fish
Just four years since the Irish band's debut A Lovely Madness comes Beoga's fourth album How to Tune a Fish...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: October/2011
Wayside Courtesies
Formed in a pub under the Stockport viaduct, this rough and ready young trio interpret classics of the English folk...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2011
Green Grass Blue Grass
There've been many attempts to meld Ireland's traditional music with the disparate conflation that forms modern-day American bluegrass, most recently...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: October/2011
Luso Noir – Music from Portuguese Speaking Africa
Whether it's the folk of Madredeus, the samba of Chico Buarque or the manifold rhythms and cadences of Lusitanian Africa,...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: October/2011
Afro-Latin: Via Dakar
As readers of Songlines probably know, Latin music was re-Africanised after World War II when wind-up phonographs made it to...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: October/2011
There Are Birds in My Garden
This second album from the 20-year-old Derbyshire musician reveals a talent and a sense of adventurousness in terms of instrumentation...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2011
Beginner's Guide to Scandinavia
Strictly speaking, Scandinavia consists of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, but compiler Tatiana Rucinska has opted here to defer to common...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2011
