Reviews
Kulintang Kultura: Danongan Kalanduyan and Gong Music of the Philippine Diaspora
This album is a celebration Danongan Kalanduyan (1947-2016), a musician who migrated to the US in the 1970s from Mindanao...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: January/February/2022
Golden Loam
Using fingerstyle electric guitar and lap steel, Michigan-based multi-instrumentalist Premo plumbs layers of harmonic ambience, granular textural effects and the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/February/2022
Nahma: A Gulf Polyphony
The project Nahma: A Gulf Polyphony consists of a double album and book. Several electronic artists were commissioned to create...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: January/February/2022
A to Z
This is Atongo Zimba’s first international release after 14 years and he could not have re-entered the musical fray in...
Reviewed by Bram Postumus in issue: January/February/2022
East Pakistan Sky
Following releases on Glitterbeat Records in 2019 and 2020, here is another outstanding recording from the Pakistani master surti singer...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: January/February/2022
Voltaje Raizal
A rhizome is an underground plant stem; recent scientific investigation has shown it to be a secret communications pathway for...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: January/February/2022
The Wait
Staples on the Australian music scene since the 1980s, when they were prominently featured in The Black Sorrows band, Aussie-Tongan...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/February/2022
Longyin: The Dragon Chants
Cheng Yu with Dennis Kwong Thye Lee
In classical music, the recreation of earlier musical styles has become a genre in itself with what’s now called HIP...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: January/February/2022
