Reviews
Tear in the River
Berlin-based bansuri player Roy Sunak's debut album, Tear in the River, can’t be faulted musically, even if its concept –...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Nostalgic Bollywood: Memorable Songs from Films of Love and Devotion (1939-1959)
This sumptuous compilation offers a detailed survey of Indian movie songs from throughout the genre's Golden Age during the 1940s...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Music for Hope
Indian sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan has done a few collaborative recordings with musicians from other traditions – for instance...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Satyam
Toronto-based tabla player Vineet Vyas has an impressive pedigree, studying with Kishan Maharaj and playing with, among others, Amjad Ali...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Veena Dreams
Raghunath Manet is originally from Puducherry in South India and splits his time between there and France. He is not...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Tribute to Legends: Ghulam Ali
This disc is, theoretically at least, a homage to the ghazal legend Ghulam Ali as imagined by Pakistani superstar Shafqat...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Starshine
Taiwan sadly remains an afterthought in the world music community so having another A Moving Sound album arrive in 2022,...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
The Living World's Demands
As a first-generation Punjabi-American from Baltimore, Ami Dang uses sitar, voice and electronics to carve a complex identity. She deals...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Apparition
Jambinai's follow-up to the magnificent Onda may be short, but it's another exhilarating and intriguing offering from the deserved winners...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Songs from the Pearl of Khorasan
The story of Afghan rubab master Nasim Khushnawaz is as fascinating as it is fraught with unimaginable adversity. Born in...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
