Reviews
The Playback Queen: the Very Best of Asha Bhosle
Aptly titled The Playback Queen, this compilation captures four decades of Asha Bhosle's extensive repertoire – up to the 1990s...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Masters of Indian Classical Music Volume II
This double–CD set follows on from an earlier compilation from ARC featuring more or less the same group of musicians...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
South India: Flowers and Ashes Hymns to Shiva
This is a disc of South Indian (Karnatic) singing in the temples of Tamil Nadu, the large state at the...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Bollywood Funk Experience
To the uninitiated, the richly hued and garish world of Bollywood film soundtracks can seem daunting and inaccessible. Jonny Trunk...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Harmony
In the entrance to the offices of Universal Records in Beijing, there’s a wall c o ve re d i...
Reviewed in issue March/2010
Qin: Celestial Music for Qin and Xiao
The qin has a small but fanatical following, both in China and abroad. This is the seven-string zither that appears...
Reviewed in issue March/2010
Yatra: Nomadic Souls
I’d better come clean straightaway and say that I had trouble with this disc. Kailash Kher is a big star...
Reviewed in issue March/2010
Growing Up Wild
This is a great find – a modern journey to southern Taiwan with balladeer Lin Sheng Xiang and his Japanese...
Reviewed in issue March/2010
In Concert
Kartik Seshadri & Anindo Chatterjee
Kartik Seshadri is probably the best sitar player of his generation and is considered a leading exponent of this most...
Reviewed in issue March/2010
Dhrupad & Khyal
The veena is one of the oldest Indian musical instruments of the lute family, probably dating back to the first...
Reviewed in issue March/2010
