Reviews
Compassion
Lama Lobsang Palden and Jim Becker
Jim Becker, a Chicago-based musician, and Lama Lobsang Palden, a Tibetan yoga teacher and healer now living in the US,...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
Time Does Not Exist for Light
One shouldn’t have to begin by pointing out that sitar player Josh Feinberg is American, but non-Indian sitarists of this...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
Obi
Yutaka Oyama is a master of the Tsugaru shamisen school in Japan, having learned at the foot of his grandfather,...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Essence of Raga Tala
Here tabla maestro Kuljit Bhamra has put together a rather eclectic but very enjoyable selection of tracks, many which he...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Titik Api
Harry Roesli was a political and social activist and prominent member of the tradisi baru (new tradition) Indonesian artists who...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Inner World
One can imagine Bono’s wrap-around shades turning green with envy when he heard that the New Zealand duo Junelle and...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Folk Music of China Vol 7: Folk Songs of the Yi and Qiang Tribes in Sichuan & Yunnan
This might not be an easy-listening album, but it takes one on a rare cultural tour to hear the music...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Wayfinder
This recording from Canada-based sitarist Mohamed Assani successfully combines the melodic sophistication of the Hindustani tradition with a more contemporary...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Folk Music of China Vol 6: Folk Songs of China's Tajik & Russian Minorities
You would be forgiven for mistaking this album for one from the former Soviet Union. It is instead music by...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Moon Over Ci. Ruins
This remarkable album explores the shared history of music between ancient China, specifically the Tang Dynasty (seventh to tenth century...
Reviewed in issue June/2020
