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Review of SUBHA

SUBHA

Roopa Panesar

Top of the World

Asian Arts Agency

Rating: ★★★★

Sitar player Roopa Panesar is certainly one of the most important musicians to have emerged in the British Asian diaspora...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Review of Mahal

Mahal

Irfan Ali Taj

A for Aleph Records

Rating: ★★★

Hailing from the Upper Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the north of Pakistan, singer and multi-instrumentalist Irfan Ali Taj’s...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of The Hindustani Jazz Sextet Live at the UCLA

The Hindustani Jazz Sextet Live at the UCLA

Don Ellis

Sleepy Night Records

Rating: ★★★

This live record is a charming time capsule, taking us back to the swinging 60s and the first fumblings of...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of Northern Khmer Spirit Music in Thailand

Northern Khmer Spirit Music in Thailand

Kantrum Dongman

Animist Records

Rating: ★★★★

Kantrum boran, the traditional music of Northern Khmer people, is found in the lower north-eastern Thai provinces of Surin, Sri...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of Between Us…

Between Us…

Anoushka Shankar & Metropole Orkest with Jules Buckley & Manu Delago

Leiter/BMG

Rating: ★★★

Sitarist Anoushka Shankar here joins forces with the Netherlands-based Metropole Orkest and handpan performer Manu Delago on a purely instrumental...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of Exploring Gong Culture in Southeast Asia: Massif and Archipelago

Exploring Gong Culture in Southeast Asia: Massif and Archipelago

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Sub Rosa

Rating: ★★★★

Sound artist and archivist Yasuhiro Morinaga records found sounds and music from around the globe. Recently, he turned his attention...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Review of Home

Home

Sushma Soma with Aditya Prakash

Sushma Soma

Rating: ★★★★

Forest fires create an ashen, black landscape in the Amazon. Over in India, an elephant stumbles across a pineapple, begins...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Review of Chardi Kala

Chardi Kala

Sonny Singh

Top of the World

Sonny Singh

Rating: ★★★★★

This is a great life-affirming disc from Sonny Singh, also known for his vocals and amazing trumpet playing in the...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Review of Parvat

Parvat

Harpreet Bansal

LAWO Classics

Rating: ★★★

Symphony-like in structure with three movements, Parvat is an articulation of Norwegian violinist Harpreet Bansal’s musical identity as an exponent...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Essence of Duality

Essence of Duality

Hindol Deb

Hindol Deb

Rating: ★★★

When it comes to world fusion music revolving around Hindustani classical music, a template was set in stone by Shakti....

Reviewed in issue May/2022

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