Reviews
Carnatic Connection
Bollywood Brass Band featuring Jyotsna Srikanth
The Bollywood Brass Band's latest album is yet another outstanding tour de force. With the help of Jyotsna Srikanth's Karnatic...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Achai
Although throat singing exists in many parts of the world (there's even a throat singing tradition among the Thembu Xhosa...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Classical & Contemporary Chinese Music
Growing up in Maoist China, Mei Han had to undergo numerous hardships to study her chosen instrument, the guzheng (21-stringed...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
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
