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"A gorgeous disc featuring polyrhythmic marimba, tabla, erhu, bamboo flutes, guitar, various vocal traditions...For those who have been looking for a succinct description for "world music," this is it." Patty-Lynne Herlevi, Cranky Crow World Music/World Music Central
"...impeccable delivery of harmonics, texture and complicated rhythms. The band members manage to fuse all their influences with consummate ease." Rave Magazine, India
"Chinese erhu master Lan Tung’s bowed lines join Prashant John’s gorgeous bamboo flute while Jonathan Bernard’s marimba juggles the beat with Stefan Cihelka’s tabla in dreamy, trance-inducing pieces totally lacking any smack of convenient sonic appropriation." Stuart Derdeyn, Vancouver Province
"Tandava is starting to make waves on the North American World Music scene." Tony Montague, Globe and Mail
"...an aural cocktail that is as intoxicating for a West Coast Anglo Saxon as it is for a native of Bangladesh." Marke Andrews, Canwest News
"Tandava is rapidly emerging as one of the most exciting groups on Vancouver's burgeoning world-music scene...the music is both authentic and unbounded by tradition". Georgia Straight
"What an amazing blend of instrumentation and style. The recording is set apart from many pan-cultural music productions by the consistent tone and perspective achieved." Wade McGregor, Mc Squared System Design Group, Inc.
"...their texture and color are phenomenally striking, unique and ultimately, mesmerizing...It's rare to find such an album to abundant and voluptuous with stylistic vocabulary. This is a true gem." Derek Sivers president, CD Baby & Hostbaby
"A gorgeous disc featuring polyrhythmic marimba, tabla, erhu, bamboo flutes, guitar, various vocal traditions...For those who have been looking for a succinct description for "world music," this is it." Patty-Lynne Herlevi, Cranky Crow World Music/World Music Central
"...impeccable delivery of harmonics, texture and complicated rhythms. The band members manage to fuse all their influences with consummate ease." Rave Magazine, India
"Chinese erhu master Lan Tung’s bowed lines join Prashant John’s gorgeous bamboo flute while Jonathan Bernard’s marimba juggles the beat with Stefan Cihelka’s tabla in dreamy, trance-inducing pieces totally lacking any smack of convenient sonic appropriation." Stuart Derdeyn, Vancouver Province
"Tandava is starting to make waves on the North American World Music scene." Tony Montague, Globe and Mail
"...an aural cocktail that is as intoxicating for a West Coast Anglo Saxon as it is for a native of Bangladesh." Marke Andrews, Canwest News
"Tandava is rapidly emerging as one of the most exciting groups on Vancouver's burgeoning world-music scene...the music is both authentic and unbounded by tradition". Georgia Straight
"What an amazing blend of instrumentation and style. The recording is set apart from many pan-cultural music productions by the consistent tone and perspective achieved." Wade McGregor, Mc Squared System Design Group, Inc.
"...their texture and color are phenomenally striking, unique and ultimately, mesmerizing...It's rare to find such an album to abundant and voluptuous with stylistic vocabulary. This is a true gem." Derek Sivers president, CD Baby & Hostbaby
