Reviews

Hankyō

Araki Kodō VI

Better known for his playing of the Irish flute and whistle in America, Hanz Araki is in fact also a...

Reviewed in issue June/2021

Flow

Wu Man & Kojiro Umezaki

Flow is a collaborative work between Wu Man – generally considered the world's greatest player of the Chinese pipa –...

Reviewed in issue June/2021

Visangati

Utsav Lal

Visangati, the name of this album, apparently means ‘Anomaly’ in Sanskrit and Hindi – in other words a deviation from...

Reviewed in issue June/2021

Ek

Manika Kaur

Manika Kaur specialises in kirtan, the main communal ritual of the Sikh religion that entails the practice of singing mystical...

Reviewed in issue May/2021

Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Defining exactly what is or is not ‘avant-garde’ music is an impossible task, with not even close to a consensus...

Reviewed in issue May/2021

Chinmaya Dunster presents… MELA: Beyond Tradition

VARIOUS ARTISTS

There is no doubting the devotion with which sarod player Chinmaya Dunster, the progenitor of MELA, approaches his musical projects....

Reviewed in issue May/2021

Chalo

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This charitable 28-track compilation aims to raise the profile of South Asian music, bringing together artists from the region and...

Reviewed in issue April/2021

Dawn of Paradise

Anupam Shobhakar & Anindo Chatterjee

Anupam Shobhakar is a New York-based Indian classical musician who plays sarod (an unfretted lute with a deeper tone than...

Reviewed in issue April/2021

Le Chant Khyal ou l'Art de l'Imagination

Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande

Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande is currently one of the leading female artists of North Indian classical vocal music specialising in the genre...

Reviewed in issue April/2021

Alkisah

Senyawa

Together for a decade, the Indonesian duo Senyawa have a root sound that could lie in a traditional ceremony, though...

Reviewed in issue April/2021