Reviews
Shuruaat
This was always going to be slick, the Berklee Indian Ensemble is a collective of musicians with amazing technical skills....
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Saath Saath
Purbayan Chatterjee & Rakesh Chaurasia
It is barely nine months since Chatterjee earned a three-page feature in Songlines (December 2021, #173) for his splendid album...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Posse of Fireflies
Yorkshire-based Karnatic singer Supriya Nagarajan recalls the India of her youth on this record, which highlights the wonder and mystery...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Guo Gan ‘Swordmen’ Trio
Over the last two decades, Paris-based erhu virtuoso Guo Gan has established himself as one of the leading ambassadors of...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Afterlife
Aussie saxophonist Matt Keegan has spearheaded an extraordinary fusion on Afterlife, combining Indian folk voice and verse with buoyant baritone...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
SUBHA
Sitar player Roopa Panesar is certainly one of the most important musicians to have emerged in the British Asian diaspora...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Mahal
Hailing from the Upper Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the north of Pakistan, singer and multi-instrumentalist Irfan Ali Taj’s...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
The Hindustani Jazz Sextet Live at the UCLA
This live record is a charming time capsule, taking us back to the swinging 60s and the first fumblings of...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Northern Khmer Spirit Music in Thailand
Kantrum boran, the traditional music of Northern Khmer people, is found in the lower north-eastern Thai provinces of Surin, Sri...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Between Us…
Anoushka Shankar & Metropole Orkest with Jules Buckley & Manu Delago
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar here joins forces with the Netherlands-based Metropole Orkest and handpan performer Manu Delago on a purely instrumental...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
