Tag: Shahzad Ismaily

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For the first couple of tracks ganavya's new album Nilam seems to owe as much to trip hop as Indian classical raga, which is to say that it lands somewhere between early solo Björk on the stunning Debut and Post and the lustrous, moonlit works of Arooj Aftab, with the opener 'Land' redolent of 'Venus as a Boy' -...

Antonina Nowacka's third solo album opens as though suspended between elements, with gossamer-thin oscillations and glimmering harp glissandos offset by a reedy ocarina which seems to defy wind speeds and barometric pressure, staying the course and keeping everything on an even keel. The song, which is titled 'Moth Spins', quivers between helium ascents and a precipitous crumpling, while droning...

Drawing from Sufi devotionals and odes to separation or unrequited love, Arooj Aftab's third studio album Vulture Prince proved as intoxicating as Shalimar or opium, the swirling ache of its six scorched songs managing to seamlessly incorporate everything from the improvisational sweep of the raga to the squelch and skank of reggae and the encompassing arch of jazz as...