Reviews
Hajiki Uta
Best known as an actress outside of Japan, Meiko Kaji also enjoyed a successful career as a singer. Much of...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Khedmat Be Khalq
I stumbled upon this album by chance, via Bandcamp, and I am glad its algorithms led me there.I travelled through...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Music from the Temple of Light
It is hard to sum up the music of Peter Culshaw in a single sentence. It runs the gamut of...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Afghan Music in Exile: Mashhad 2022
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Since the Taliban's return to power in 2021, many of Afghanistan's musicians were forced into exile to avoid arrest, torture...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Atma (The Soul)
UK-based sitar player Roopa Panesar's latest album, Atma (meaning soul) is said to be ‘theperfect album for a troubled world.’...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Landscape Traces: New Music For Khaen, Vol Two
The khaen is a bamboo free-reed mouth organ played by ethnic Laotians in Laos and Northeast Thailand. Performed solo, or...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
18 Piano Sutras & 25 South Asian Pianisms
This double album of piano suites is by prolific composer and pianist Tanya Ekanayaka, from Sri Lanka. Each of the...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Island no 16 – Memories of Future Landscapes
This deeply enchanting record was borne out of an intimate liaison with SABIWA's memories of childhood in the embattled East...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Metamorphosis
Crossover albums don't often get one's pulse racing, and only two tracks on this album from the Japanese American koto...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
The Sound of the Soul
Debashish Bhattacharya is one of the world's great musical innovators. He's a composer and virtuoso guitarist, who transformed the Indian...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
