Reviews
Zoo of Songs
German group Pulsar Trio have transplanted the emblematic instrument of Hindustani classical music – the sitar – into a northern...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: November/2018
A Cassowary Apart
Andrew Tuttle & Padang Food Tigers
The world of ambient banjo is a small one. This was the joke that brought together two participants in the...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2021
Is That So?
John McLaughlin, Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain
John McLaughlin sparked a paradigm shift in the East-West fusion genre with his 1970s group Shakti. He is seeking another...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2020
Hani Polyphonic Singing in Yunnan China
Southwest China’s Yunnan province is home to the majority of the Hani people. Think of the terraced rice fields of...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2023
A Blade Because a Blade is Whole
Emerging from the UK’s experimental underground, DePlume’s Spotify statistics indicate that his concoction of poetry and jazz provides a taste...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2025
Symphony of Self
Symphony of Self represents an incandescent display of talent and ambition from pipa maestra Gao Hong. Hong composes, arranges and...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: February/March/2026
Vikings Memories
SKÁLD take their name from the Norse balladeers who told tales of gods and men in the medieval past. The...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2020
Subcontinental Drift
Sultans of String with Anwar Khurshid
Canadian folk-fusion outfit Sultans of String have gone for the word-play double – both band name and album name –...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2016
Bhattacharya/Grønseth/Wessel
The dialogue between Hindustani classical and jazz music has a storied past. This latest effort to expand the lexicon draws...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2017
