Reviews
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
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
