Reviews

Alazhymny/My Alash

Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool

This release is essential for fans of Tyvan throat singing. It features unique archive field recordings made in Tyva from...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Awakening

Yungchen Lhamo

The Tibetan singer and composer has been in exile from her birth land for over 30 years. Awakening is her...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Re/Semblance: Saath-Saath

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Conceived and realised between 2016-2019, and necessitating numerous trips between Bangalore, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Wuhan,...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

The Gleam

Park Jiha

The work of the Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha has divided opinion at Songlines. Simon Broughton disliked her 2018 solo debut...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Tonkori in the Moonlight

OKI

This writer interviewed OKI, the famed Ainu musician and producer from the Japanese island of Hokkaido, for this magazine some...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Ji

Jens Pollheide & Imran Khan

This pairing between German ex-Embryo bassist Pollheide and Indian sitar player Imran Khan marks the culmination of seven years of...

Reviewed in issue March/2022

Landscape

Kim So Ra

South Korean percussionist Kim So Ra started learning janggu (the hour-glass drum played with a pair of lithe sticks) aged...

Reviewed in issue March/2022

Changys Baglaash

Khöömei Beat

Khöömei Beat are a young Tyvan (also spelt Tuvan) quintet formed in 2017 who have grown up witnessing the acclaim...

Reviewed in issue March/2022

Byzaanchy

Choduraa Tumat

Choduraa Tumat is one of Tyva’s finest female khöömeizhi (master throat singers), being leader of the group Tyva Kyzy, but...

Reviewed in issue March/2022

Kofū II

Meitei

This is a fascinating album by Meitei that perhaps can be described as simply a sound collage of Japan, both...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022