Reviews
Distant Mountains
Recorded live in concert at the Morgenland Festival in Osnabrück, Germany, Distant Mountains is an album of duets by Chinese...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
We Will Never Die
This is Tuva’s one and only Albert Kuvezin’s first Yat-Kha studio album since 2010’s excellent Poets and Lighthouses. Right from...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
Voice of Flowers: Spring Ragas from India
Baluji Shrivastav is a UK-based Indian classical musician who, although blind from the age of eight months, has gone on...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
Sky Songs
Alena Murang is a singer and sapé player from Sarawak on the island of Borneo, Malaysia. One of the indigenous...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
Hankyō
Better known for his playing of the Irish flute and whistle in America, Hanz Araki is in fact also a...
Reviewed in issue June/2021
Flow
Flow is a collaborative work between Wu Man – generally considered the world's greatest player of the Chinese pipa –...
Reviewed in issue June/2021
Ek
Manika Kaur specialises in kirtan, the main communal ritual of the Sikh religion that entails the practice of singing mystical...
Reviewed in issue May/2021
Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan
Defining exactly what is or is not ‘avant-garde’ music is an impossible task, with not even close to a consensus...
Reviewed in issue May/2021
Chinmaya Dunster presents… MELA: Beyond Tradition
There is no doubting the devotion with which sarod player Chinmaya Dunster, the progenitor of MELA, approaches his musical projects....
Reviewed in issue May/2021
