Reviews

Suites

Sitardust

There is a lot to like on this diverse album, the second put together and led by Brussels-based sitarist Joachim...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Sum // Parts

Dhaivat Jani

Toronto-based composer and percussionist Jani's debut album is aptly named, as sum is the Hindi-Urdu word for that vital beat...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Classical Music of Central Asia

Munojat Yulchieva

Munojat Yulchieva, now in her early 60s, is probably the most recognised vocalist in Uzbek traditional music. She's got a...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Weaving My Ancestors’ Voices

Sheila Chandra

There's something plainly refreshing about witnessing an artist following their own path, uninhibited. Chandra's trilogy of albums – first released...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Journey Across the Steppes

Oghlan Bakhshi

Recordings of Turkmen musicians are few and far between. Oghlan Bakhshi, born Mohammad Geldi Geldi Nejad in 1993, is a...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Raga Yaman

Uday Bhawalkar

Uday Bhawalkar is a maestro of dhrupad, an ancient Indian classical vocal style, believed to be the world's oldest musical...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

KAL

Sarathy Korwar

Billed as a ‘companion piece’ to 2022's KALAK, which earned a Songlines Music Award for what we called its ‘urgent,...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Hajiki Uta

Meiko Kaji

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

Naujawanan Baidar

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

Peter Culshaw

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