Reviews
Travelers
Three years ago, the Brooklyn-based artist collective Found Sound Nation and the US embassy in Islamabad collaborated to launch the...
Reviewed in issue October/2017
Ghanashyam: A Broken Branch
This fascinating and eclectic work is the full version of Ravi Shankar's piece commissioned and first performed by Birmingham Touring...
Reviewed in issue October/2017
Transcendence
Most Songlines’ readers will not have heard of Mashkoor Ali Khan, an Indian classical vocalist who sings khayal, an ornamented...
Reviewed in issue July/2017
The Art of the Shakuhachi
Katsuya Yokoyama, one of the last great masters of Japanese traditional music, brings us an exemplary recording of 17th-century shakuhachi...
Reviewed in issue July/2017
Japanese Taiko
Joji Hirota & The London Taiko Drummers
Taiko drumming in a live setting is a visceral and hypnotic experience: the physicality of the drums and volume of...
Reviewed in issue July/2017
Great British Gharana
The idea of a ‘great British gharana’ – a tradition or school of music – was thought up in 2011...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Protection: Himalayan Buddhist Mantras
Talking to an anthropologist friend, I asked why the West remains so fascinated with Tibet. I learned about Madame Helena...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
At Big Pink
This is a historic recording first released on the American Buddha label in 1968 and it's great that Floating World...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Hà Noi Duo
French guitarist Nguyên Lê and Vietnamese singer and multi-instrumentalist Ngô Hong Quang take the clash of the modern and traditional...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Maya: Bickram Ghosh’s Dedication to Ravi Shankar
One oft-cited example of the musicianship of sitar legend Ravi Shankar, who died in 2012, is that he was the...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
