Reviews
Hot Pot Totto
WaqWaq Kingdom’s album Hot Pot Totto is a joyous and defiant response to ecological anxiety. The album is a brew...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Ongaku Zukan
Sadly, Sakamoto left this mortal coil in March 2023: re-releasing this 1984 album, originally recorded as the Yellow Magic Orchestra...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Chapter I: Forever, For Now
Anoushka Shankar’s last significant release, Love Letters, released in 2020 on Mercury Classics, was a very personal collection of songs...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Travellers
Jason Singh & The Banwasi Collective
UK-based composer and sound artist Jason Singh is known for his innovative work making music out of the sounds of...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
Lost in Tajikistan
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
These tracks were recorded in 2008 after English musician Lu Edmonds began recording musicians in a makeshift studio in the...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
One Drop of Kindness
Yungchen Lhamo has been in exile from Tibet since 1989 and One Drop of Kindness, her seventh release, continues her...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
Manoyatri – The Mind Voyager
Manoyatri is a set of four exciting new compositions by Australia-based Avra Banerjee who trained in Indian classical music and...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
Sum // Parts
Toronto-based composer and percussionist Jani's debut album is aptly named, as sum is the Hindi-Urdu word for that vital beat...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
Classical Music of Central Asia
Munojat Yulchieva, now in her early 60s, is probably the most recognised vocalist in Uzbek traditional music. She's got a...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2023
