Reviews
Break the Dawn
iyatraQuartet fuse Western with Indian classical and Arabic traditions, with the four players - violinist Alice Barron, who studied Karnatic...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
In the Moment: Improvisations and Compositions
John Hemmersam & Asal Malekzadeh
John Hemmersam (Denmark) and Asal Malekzadeh (Iran) can be heard on this recording playing acoustic guitars and daf respectively. The...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Ravi Shankar: Sukanya
Ravi Shankar began writing his last major work when he was 90. An opera based on an ancient Sanskrit tale...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Dialogues IV
The story of this record is so compelling that it comes as a relief that the content is equal to...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
What's Not Enough About That?
This third album shows how Vula Viel have very quickly become a band whose new releases you breathlessly await and...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Wild Wild East
Born in New York in 1975 to Punjabi immigrants, Jain has become a leading figure in North America's burgeoning Asian...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Is That So?
John McLaughlin, Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain
John McLaughlin sparked a paradigm shift in the East-West fusion genre with his 1970s group Shakti. He is seeking another...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Magic Spirit Quartet
As one of the leaders of the Gnawa revival and its incursions into fusion, Majid Bekkas has stressed the importance...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
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Yewoulen (Wake Up)
Bringing together members of the Senegalese-born singer Biram Seck's Jant Band and French guitarist Thibaut Remy's London-based African-European collective Awale,...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
The Ripple Effect
A dozen years ago, the American banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck took a journey across Africa to research the origins of...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
