Reviews
Trance Gamelan in Bali
If you can imagine a piece of cutting-edge electronica being played over the “party in the background” noises that you...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
Immeasurable Light
One might have thought that the prolific Wu Man – who more or less single-handedly introduced the Chinese pipa lute...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
Quiet Forest, Flowing Stream
That the pipa player Gao Hong has long lived in the US is evident in this collection, which reveals a...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
Gamelan of Central Java XIV: Ritual Sounds of Sekaten
Sekaten is the sacred gamelan music. In Java, it is played in only a few mosques, and only during the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
Fretless
Soumik Datta is Britain’s brilliant young sarod (lute) star. He gave a stunning concert supporting Shivkumar Sharma at the Darbar...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
Poets and Lighthouses
Albert Kuvezin’s new incarnation of Yat-Kha continues his singer-songwriter develop– ment with his unique kanzat style of Tuvan throat singing....
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
Into the Raga
This disc features a duet between the two most predominant melodic instruments of Karnatic (South Indian) music: violin and the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
Ethnic Minority Music of Northwest Xinjiang, China
This is a selection of field recordings made by an intrepid French-Chinese couple of enthusiasts in 2009 in the Ili...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010
The Rough Guide to Bhangra
Bhangra is the dance music rooted in the distinctive loping rhythm of the dhol drum, which sprung from Birmingham's Punjabi...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010
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Juan Zou De Ren (He Who Travels Far)
The second album from Hanggai, the Beijing-based Mongolian folk-rock band, pioneers of the ‘China-grass’ scene, sees them coming of age....
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010
