Reviews
Afghan Music
Vocalists Zohreh Jooya and Hossein Arman are exiled Afghans performing with the Afghan En– semble, a traditional-style group rather like...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Burma: Classical Theatre Music
With so few CDs of Burmese traditional music actually available in the West, this is an important and exciting release....
Reviewed in issue March/2011
The Rough Guide to Bollywood
This compilation could just as easily be called The Genius of Rahul Dev Burman. No fewer than nine of the...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
The Art of Improvisation
One of the essential resources for Indian classical music is The Raga Guide, published in 1999 by Nimbus Records. It...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Mysterious Duality – Just Me
Jayanthi Kumaresh is one of India’s leading performers of the veena, an ancient lute which produces a rich and deeply...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
The sound of Siami – Leftfield Luk-thung, Jazz & Molam in Thailand 1964-1975
The DJ duo and vinyl collectors Chris Menistand Miles Cleret have been playing theirunique mix of Thai gems from yesteryeararound...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Roots Travellers
‘Gypsy’ is a term mistakenly given to Indian migrants who arrived in Constan¬tinople around 1,000 years ago: the locals, having...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Indonesia: Songs from the Islands of Flores &Solor
Flores and Solor are part of a chain of narrow volcanic islands located just west of Timor Leste, the administrative...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Sublime Strings – South Indian Classical Music
The violinist Lalgudi Jayaraman is part of a long line of disciples of the famous Tyagaraja, an 18th-century composer and...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Ancestors Call
These extremely well recorded new versions of songs familiar to Tuvan throat singing fans (mainly from 1994's The Orphan's Lament...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
