"As raw and (while listening for the first time) unapproachable as one would expect from a foreign music culture, is 'The Voice of Tradition: Gangubai Hangal'. ... Gangubai, the now 79 year old 'grand old lady' of classical Indian music, has absolutely nothing in common with any type of European vocal ideal: her uncompromising singing that renounces every superficial exhibition seems as austere as bare primitive rocks.
(Badische Zeitung)