Catrin and Seckou's SOAR is one of Songlines Top Ten Albums of 2018!

We've just heard that our second release on bendigedig, Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita's SOAR - has been chosen as one of Songlines Magazines top ten Album of the Year 2018! Catrin and Seckou’s debut album Clychau Dibon was also selected as a Top Ten album of 2014, and won Songlines Best Cross-Cultural Collaboration the same year.

Newydd glywed fod ein hail albwm i’w ryddhau ar bendigedig, SOAR Catrin Finch a Seckou Keita – wedi ei ddewis fel un o’r Deg Albwm Gorau’r Flwyddyn 2018 Cylchgrawn Songlines! Enillodd Catrin a Seckou y Cydweithrediad Traws-ddiwylliannol Gorau yn ôl yn 2014.

Read more / manylion pellach:

https://www.songlines.co.uk/news/songlines-best-albums-of-2018

The other albums selected include:

AMMAR 808 - Maghreb United (Glitterbeat)

Anandi Bhattacharya - Joys Abound (Riverboat)

Angélique Kidjo - Remain in Light (Kravenworks)

Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa (Jeremy Dutcher/Fontana North)

Mariza - Mariza (Warner Music)

Mehdi Rostami & Adib Rostami - Melodic Circles: Urban Classical Music from Iran (ARC Music)

Pascuala Ilabaca y su Fauna - El Mito de la Pérgola (Petit Indie)

Small Island Big Song - Small Island Big Song (Small Island Big Song)

Various Artists - Yiddish Glory: Lost Songs of World War II (Six Degrees)

The selections were chosen by editors Jo Frost and Simon Broughton and will be featured in the Jan/Feb 2019 issue of Songlines (#144), available from December 7.