Reviews
Mysterious Duality – Just Me
Jayanthi Kumaresh is one of India’s leading performers of the veena, an ancient lute which produces a rich and deeply...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
The sound of Siami – Leftfield Luk-thung, Jazz & Molam in Thailand 1964-1975
The DJ duo and vinyl collectors Chris Menistand Miles Cleret have been playing theirunique mix of Thai gems from yesteryeararound...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Roots Travellers
‘Gypsy’ is a term mistakenly given to Indian migrants who arrived in Constan¬tinople around 1,000 years ago: the locals, having...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Indonesia: Songs from the Islands of Flores &Solor
Flores and Solor are part of a chain of narrow volcanic islands located just west of Timor Leste, the administrative...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Sublime Strings – South Indian Classical Music
The violinist Lalgudi Jayaraman is part of a long line of disciples of the famous Tyagaraja, an 18th-century composer and...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Ancestors Call
These extremely well recorded new versions of songs familiar to Tuvan throat singing fans (mainly from 1994's The Orphan's Lament...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
Trance Gamelan in Bali
If you can imagine a piece of cutting-edge electronica being played over the “party in the background” noises that you...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
Immeasurable Light
One might have thought that the prolific Wu Man – who more or less single-handedly introduced the Chinese pipa lute...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
Quiet Forest, Flowing Stream
That the pipa player Gao Hong has long lived in the US is evident in this collection, which reveals a...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
Gamelan of Central Java XIV: Ritual Sounds of Sekaten
Sekaten is the sacred gamelan music. In Java, it is played in only a few mosques, and only during the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
