Aditya Prakash’s debut solo album with its phonetic spelling of ‘isolation’ appears to be a direct reference to the pandemic...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
Alam Khan, Arjun K Verma, Jack Perla & Del Sol Quartet
While there are countless East-West fusions out there, there are few that sound as effortlessly meant to be as this...
Reviewed in issue December/2023
Indonesian singer-songwriter Soedjarwoto Soemarsono, known as Gombloh, was an important counter-culture figure of the 1970s and 1980s in his home...
Reviewed in issue December/2023
Sufiscore is not just a record label but also a YouTube channel which has a huge following in Asia, particularly...
Reviewed in issue December/2023
Junnosuke Uehara, Washu Yoneya & Kisaburo Umeya
Matsuri bayashi, the celebratory festival music of Japanese prefectures, provides the core for this album, albeit reimagined for a contemporary...
Reviewed in issue December/2023
Southwest China’s Yunnan province is home to the majority of the Hani people. Think of the terraced rice fields of...
Reviewed in issue December/2023
Batsükh Dorj comes from a continuous but little known and recorded tradition of Tuvan music in the far north west...
Reviewed in issue December/2023
This album is a treat. It isn’t often you get the chance to hear new recordings of the rudra veena,...
Reviewed in issue December/2023
Andrew Goldberg & Ricky Romain
Sitarist Ricky Romain has long been a stalwart of the South Asian music scene in the UK, working with musicians...
Reviewed in issue December/2023
While reggae music has long had a reverent fanbase in Japan, the country’s musicians have generally shied away from attempting...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
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