Reviews
Eternal Light
Lalgudi GJR Krishnan & Anil Srinivasan
Lalgudi Krishnan is the son of the famous violin legend Lalgudi Jayaraman, and for this recording he has teamed up...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Love Bollywood
There are 33 songs here, all wrapped up in a lipstick-red case, and all but two of them were recorded...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Devils and Wonders in Bali
At several points, this disc of Balinese gamelan recordings made in 1974 had me punching the air in excitement. There’s...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Dil
The family style of the late sitar legend Vilayat Khan is renowned for its gayaki, a vocalised style of playing...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Mongolia: Kazakh Songs and Epic Traditions of the West
Ethnomusicologist Alain Desjacques made most of these field recordings of Kazakh, Uriangkhai and Zakhchin Mongol musicians in 1984, though some...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
The Sound of the Soul
Rarely do traditional Chinese instrumental recordings come in handsome packaging, with English and Chinese texts so well laid out. Rarely...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Afghan Music
Vocalists Zohreh Jooya and Hossein Arman are exiled Afghans performing with the Afghan En– semble, a traditional-style group rather like...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Burma: Classical Theatre Music
With so few CDs of Burmese traditional music actually available in the West, this is an important and exciting release....
Reviewed in issue March/2011
The Rough Guide to Bollywood
This compilation could just as easily be called The Genius of Rahul Dev Burman. No fewer than nine of the...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
The Art of Improvisation
One of the essential resources for Indian classical music is The Raga Guide, published in 1999 by Nimbus Records. It...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
