Reviews
Landscape Traces: New Music For Khaen, Vol Two
The khaen is a bamboo free-reed mouth organ played by ethnic Laotians in Laos and Northeast Thailand. Performed solo, or...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
18 Piano Sutras & 25 South Asian Pianisms
This double album of piano suites is by prolific composer and pianist Tanya Ekanayaka, from Sri Lanka. Each of the...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Island no 16 – Memories of Future Landscapes
This deeply enchanting record was borne out of an intimate liaison with SABIWA's memories of childhood in the embattled East...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Metamorphosis
Crossover albums don't often get one's pulse racing, and only two tracks on this album from the Japanese American koto...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
The Sound of the Soul
Debashish Bhattacharya is one of the world's great musical innovators. He's a composer and virtuoso guitarist, who transformed the Indian...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Selonding, Vol 3
Among the myriad styles of gamelan music found (mostly) in Bali and Java, selonding is an ancient, sacred form dating...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
MinYo Songbook Vol 1
Many cultures around the world have taken forms of their own folk songs and reinterpreted them in a more mainstream...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Nakshatra
Bringing new elements into a musical tradition that has a long history and strict sense of training and performance is...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Marwa
Netherlands-based Marianne Svašek is a dhrupad singer and sarangi player. In following her chosen vocation she has certainly ticked all...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Saigon Supersound Vol 3
This is the third and final volume in the Saigon Supersound series, covering the ‘Golden Era’ of south Vietnamese popular...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
