DELHI TO DAMASCUS (In a Circle) 9/10 Cellist Yo-Yo Ma calls tabla virtuoso Sandeep Das “a creator myths”, and this album offers eight more such myths. Das’s guru told him that to become a great tabla player he firstly had to make his hands like swords, then like streams and…
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TILTED (Ropeadope) 9/10 Step through a distorting mirror into a universe where nothing is quite as it seems. Is that really Antonio Carlos Jobim’s One Note Samba? Yes, but now denuded of all its Brazilian lilt in favour of a groove from bassist Dezron Douglas and drummer Eric McPherson that…
WITH // WITHOUT (www.impermanencemusic.com) 8/10 I’ve never been in a float tank, but suspect this music may sometimes be an aural equivalent. Impermanence is a Melbourne trio whose music has a way of disengaging itself from gravity – without sending you to sleep. Their methods of keeping you absorbed include…