Reviews
Saigon Supersound, 1965-75 Volume 1
Five years after Sublime Frequencies' release Saigon Rock and Soul – Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974 (reviewed in #85), here is...
Reviewed in issue October/2017
Azaadi: Freedom
Samia Malik's album is autobiographical, bringing out the personal from the political via a series of original English and Urdu...
Reviewed in issue October/2017
Tales of Indian Sarod
Pradeep Barot, Riccardo Battaglia, Federico Sanesi
Pradeep Barot studied under Annapurna Devi – a surbahar (bass sitar) virtuoso, daughter of the legendary Allauddin Khan and once...
Reviewed in issue October/2017
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
