Reviews
Bangalore Dreams
After success with her dazzling acoustic Karnatic trio record, Call of Bangalore, Jyotsna Srikanth returns with a short album that...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
Soul of Bengal
The group presenting this charming collection of Bangladeshi music lives up to its name. It is indeed an all-star cast:...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
Home
There's an intimate warmth and bloom about this classical sitar album, which is largely thanks to Anoushka Shankar's sublime playing,...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
The Sounds of India; Improvisations; Three Ragas
This double album features three older releases by Ravi Shankar, the legendary sitar maestro who died in 2012. He took...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Slide Guitar Ragas from Dusk Till Dawn
The Grammy-nominated pioneering slide-guitarist is back with another brilliant album, tracing an Indian classical journey from dusk till dawn. Beginning...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Radio Vietnam
Belonging to Sublime Frequencies’ locale-specific radio collage series, Radio Vietnam is a ‘plunderphonics’ album: that's to say, the mashed-up audio...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Hanoi Masters: War is a Wound, Peace is a Scar
The intrepid producer and field recordist Ian Brennan has worked with both Tinariwen and Malawi Mouse Boys. He recently recorded...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic India
This eclectic collection features established giants such as Asha Bhosle alongside relative unknowns. Opening with a 70s Bollywood number by...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
Gagok Lyrical Songs
Kim Wol-ha died 20 years ago. She was one of the last musicians who had trained in the most prestigious...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
The Art of the Daegeum Sanjo
The latest of Inédit's series of Korean sanjo releases is for daegeum, a horizontal bamboo flute with a resonator and...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
