Reviews
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
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
