This double CD is essential for anyone wishing to gain a balanced, comprehensive perspective of the many versions of overtone/undertone...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
The British-Indian composer Baluji Shrivastav is an outsider where Indian music is concerned. A multi-instrumentalist, he plays sitar as well...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
Many Songlines readers will know Radik Tyulyush through his long-term involvement with the Tuvan throat-singing ‘supergroup,’ Huun-Huur-Tu. Although he spent...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
Taiko is a term that covers an array of Japanese drums (known as wadaiko). Since the mid-20th century, taiko has...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
This album seems to hark back to earlier, more simple times. Bhutan, bordering India and Tibet, conjures up images of...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
This album is the fifth volume in an anthology of traditional Japanese music, created in 1941 by the Kokusai Bunka...
Reviewed in issue March/2017
The Korean quartet Black String take their name from the geomungo, the funkiest of Korea's zithers, whose name translates as...
Reviewed in issue March/2017
This re-release is a recording of the first concert given by the now-forgotten sitar maestro Pramod Kumar. Trained in tabla,...
Reviewed in issue March/2017
Kagura is an ancient form of Japanese Shinto sacred music and dance, which accompanies the ritual chanting of mythological tales....
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Composer, producer and savvy businessman Doi Inthanon (named after Thailand's tallest mountain) has created a huge catalogue of songs and...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
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