Reviews
In Hollywood, 1971
In her liner notes for this project, first released on vinyl earlier this year, Ravi Shankar's widow Sukanya refers to...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Beyond Karma
While in Tibet I once met a young man with a motorbike; he was wearing a leather jacket and had...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
Mara
LA-based Aditya Prakash began his training in Karnatic singing when he was eight years old, and he has since toured...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
Overtones
It's perhaps a measure of the subtlety of the music that the liner notes to this new addition to Harmonia...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
Ragas & Talas/India's Master Musician
This double album presents two of the earliest releases of the late sitar legend Ravi Shankar. Ragas & Talas was...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
Khmer Rouge Survivors: They Will Kill You, If You Cry
This third release in Glitterbeat's Hidden Musics series, produced by Ian Brennan, features some remarkable Cambodian musicians who survived the...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Afghan Rubab with Songbirds
Rahim Khushnawaz (c1947-2011) was one of the great rubab players of Afghanistan. But he comes from Herat rather than Kabul,...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
The Fluid Piano
It certainly sounds like a piano. But not as you know it. Against a drone of tambura, pianist Utsav Lal...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
The Voice of the Tantra
When I travelled to Tibet in 2005 to record liturgical music, many monasteries were in ruins after their destruction during...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Sunda Country: The Art of the Gamelan Degung
Gamelan degung is one of the smaller types of gamelan ensembles. This disc, recorded between 1972 and 1973, features two...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
