Reviews
Echoes of Indus
While Pakistan has undoubtedly given the world some outstanding classical vocalists, Pakistani instrumentalists have, by and large, remained in obscurity...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Bollywood
Bollywood rode high in the 60s and 70s. Playback singers were the stars of their day and musical directors had...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
Elegant Pipa Classics: Wu Man’s New Renditions of Ancient Melodies
Here are ‘elegant’ pipa (Chinese lute) classics, which are in the main calm and meditative. But what a title! Traditional...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
Jasmine Flower
The Paris-based erhu (two-stringed fiddle) player Guo Gan is part of a burgeoning generation of traditional East Asian musicians who...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
Dance of the Cobra
To anyone familiar with the vibrant sounds of Indian wedding bands, this will come as a welcome album. What they...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
Ethnic Minority Music of Southern China
This highly personal collection of music is the distillation of 55 CDs’ worth of source material lovingly recorded between 2006...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
Baul-Fakir Gostho Lila: Conversations between Ma Joshoda and the Cowherds
It could be just happenstance, but I detect a reawakening of interest in traditional folk culture in the Indian subcontinent....
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
Arctic Spirit: Music from the Siberian North
Sakha, or Yakutia, is a land of mammoths, gold and diamonds: a Siberian territory that sits atop permafrost and is...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
Call of Bangalore
Before hearing this wonderfully recorded and produced album, I had only encountered the London-based violinist as a versatile performer of...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
