Songlines Magazine

Songlines is a UK-based magazine that started in 1999. It focuses on a wide range of music, including traditional, popular, contemporary, and fusion styles. The magazine highlights artists from all over the world.

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Review | Songlines

1 week ago | songlines.co.uk | Simon Broughton

Top of the World Rating: ★★★★ View album and artist details Artist/band: Hajda Banda Label: Karrot Kommando May/2025 Hajda Banda are one of the best traditional bands to have emerged in Poland in recent years. Led by Belarusian singer and violinist Daria Butskaya, they focus on the music of eastern Poland and the Polesia region of Belarus and Ukraine.
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1 week ago | songlines.co.uk | Wif Stenger

Rating: ★★★★ View album and artist details Artist/band: Frigg Label: Bafe’s Factory May/2025 After 25 years of travelling the world, fiddle juggernaut Frigg rolls like a well-oiled machine – albeit with a few surprises.
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1 week ago | songlines.co.uk | Wif Stenger

Rating: ★★★ View album and artist details Artist/band: Uusikuu Label: Nordic Notes May/2025 Uusikuu could just be the house band at the cosy local tavern of your dreams, with warm, relaxed vocals backed by accordion and fiddle, playing beloved standards and originals that sound like they should be standards. Two Finnish expats started the band near Stuttgart almost 20 years ago.
Guru Nanak's Message of Peace Through Music at the Barbican

2 weeks ago | songlines.co.uk | Simon Broughton

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 By Simon Broughton Simon Broughton attends a special event at London's Barbican Centre celebrating Guru Nanak L-R: Amrita Kaur, Zeeshan Ali, Aruna Sairam, Anantvir Singh, Momin Khan (photo by Rehmat Rayatt) This was an unprecedented event. A whole day (April 6) was spent celebrating Guru Nanak, culminating in a five-hour concert organised by Darbar Festival, who have recently begun a partnership with the Barbican Centre.
Jordi Savall's Ibn Battuta: The Traveller of Time

1 month ago | songlines.co.uk | Simon Broughton

Tuesday, March 25, 2025 By Simon Broughton The many journeys of Maghrebi explorer Ibn Battuta are the focus of a new ensemble performance from Jordi Savall Thanks for visiting the Songlines website, your guide to an extraordinary world of music and culture.
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1 month ago | songlines.co.uk | Wif Stenger

Rating: ★★★★ View album and artist details Artist/band: Ánnámáret Label: Uksi Productions April/2025 The Indigenous Sámi tradition of joik chanting thrives in many styles across the Sápmi region of northern Norway, Sweden and Finland, including wordless improvisation somewhere between yodelling, ululation and scat singing. Contemporary Sámi musicians have fused joik with genres from pop and rock to hip-hop and electronics.
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1 month ago | songlines.co.uk | Andrew Taylor-Dawson

Rating: ★★★★ View album and artist details Artist/band: Sonic Interventions Label: Agogo Records April/2025 Hailing from Germany, this amorphous cross-cultural jazz collective have been making waves on the Berlin underground with their infectious grooves, forward-looking experimentation and entrancing live performances.
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1 month ago | songlines.co.uk | Tim Cumming

Top of the World Rating: ★★★★★ View album and artist details Artist/band: Jim Ghedi Label: Basin Rock April/2025 There’s no contemporary singer quite like Jim Ghedi. In his otherworldly voice, with its underlay of drone mechanics, I hear trace elements of John Jacob Niles, a Banshee’s spectral cry and a sharp wind through the crannies of an old house in the middle of nowhere.
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1 month ago | songlines.co.uk | Chris Wheatley

Rating: ★★★★★ View album and artist details Artist/band: B O D I E S Label: Grönland April/2025 Berlin-based Australian singer-songwriter Kat Frankie leads an eight-member all-female a cappella vocal ensemble on this, the group’s debut self-titled album. That Frankie cites such innovative musicians as PJ Harvey and Fiona Apple as inspirations should tell you much about the music that you’ll find here.
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1 month ago | songlines.co.uk | Doug DeLoach

Rating: ★★★ View album and artist details Artist/band: Reinis Jaunais Label: Reinis Jaunais April/2025 By combining instruments from his native country of Latvia, such as the kolke (a harp/zither relative of Lithuania’s kankle and Finland’s kantele), with locally crafted string and percussion instruments (guitar, tongue drum) augmented by synthesized effects, Reinis Jaunais creates a contemporary context for impressionistic compositions largely inspired by his prolific touring schedule. On...