Reviews
Kulintang Kultura: Danongan Kalanduyan and Gong Music of the Philippine Diaspora
This album is a celebration Danongan Kalanduyan (1947-2016), a musician who migrated to the US in the 1970s from Mindanao...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
East Pakistan Sky
Following releases on Glitterbeat Records in 2019 and 2020, here is another outstanding recording from the Pakistani master surti singer...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Longyin: The Dragon Chants
Cheng Yu with Dennis Kwong Thye Lee
In classical music, the recreation of earlier musical styles has become a genre in itself with what’s now called HIP...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Gate of Klüna
This is a strange and fascinating album that may challenge Songlines readers who prefer their world music on the soft,...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
One Morning in Gurgaon
Guy Buttery, Mohd Amjad Khan & Mudassir Khan
When the South African guitarist Guy Buttery embarked on a tour of India in 2019 as part of a trio...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Little Universe
Only one year after their acclaimed 2020 release Songs Beyond Words, Taiwan-based group A Moving Sound return with another eclectic...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Prayer’s Tale: Taiko Drums & Asian Percussion
Joji Hirota | Joji Hirota & The London Taiko Drummers
Joji Hirota is a percussionist, shakuhachi (bamboo flute) player and vocalist who has been presenting Japanese music to worldwide audiences...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
River of Happy Souls
Bapi Das Baul is son of Purna Das Baul and grandson of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul who became friendly with...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Nayan Navaa
Nayan Navaa is Namgar Lhasaranova’s fourth release since she formed the band under her name in 2001. Namgar is a...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
The Rough Guide to the Best Japanese Music You’ve Never Heard
Despite the slightly misleading title – many of the artists here are well known in world music circles outside Japan...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
