Reviews
Tibet: Songs from Exile
Fifty years after the Chinese occupation of Tibet, there are still few recordings of genuine traditional music from Tibet’s rural...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
The Art of the Geomungo Sanjo
This reviewer must admit to being a big fan of sanjo, the extended, almost jazzy Korean instrumental genre. It typically...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Life Death Tears Dream
This is the third release by the Vancouver-based ensemble that features Lan Tung on Taiwanese erhu (two-string spiked fiddle), Haiqiong...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Folk Songs and Soundscapes from Nepal
Composer and producer Bishwo Shahi is based in London but recorded this album in Kathmandu, the capital of his homeland...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Les Fleurs du Levant
In the 60s, a curious release on the Smithsonian Folkways label featured the well-known Korean folk song, ‘Arirang’ played on...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
The Living Room Sessions Part 2
This is the eagerly awaited second volume of the outstanding Living Room Sessions, the first of which won the legendary...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Tajikistan: Classical Music and Songs
This suite of mainly instrumental music is an exemplary presentation of Tajik art music. Abdurashidov plays the sato, a (very)...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Mu Dan Ting
This is an album for lovers of the flute – in this ease the transverse flute known as the dizi...
Reviewed in issue June/2013
Pop Yeh Yeh: Psychedelic Rock from Singapore and Malaysia 1964-1970
The latest compilation from Seattle-based Sublime Frequencies is a dizzying double whammy of obscurities and information. Documenting the 60s rock...
Reviewed in issue June/2013
Monologues
With Monologues, the Indian-born and Toronto-based duo of singer-composer Vandana Vishwas and her husband, the songwriter and musician Vishwas Thoke,...
Reviewed in issue June/2013
