Reviews
Amrak Seedna & Abtal Wa Harameyah
Ziad Rahbani is the son of Lebanese icon Fairuz and famed composer Assi Rahbani and a living legend in Lebanon,...
Reviewed in issue July/2024
The Kindest One
Jorga Mesfin is a comparatively new kid on the Ethio-jazz block. The Ethiopian saxophonist also happens to be Mulatu Astatke’s...
Reviewed in issue July/2024
Azerbaijani Gitara, Vol 2
Bongo Joe Records’ first foray into gitara music from Azerbaijan (the aptly-titled Azerbaijani Gitara by Rüstem Quliyev, released in 2020)...
Reviewed in issue July/2024
Ousoul
Tarek Abdallah & Adel Shams El Din
Born in Alexandria and based in France, oud-player and composer Tarek Abdallah is a scholar of traditional Arabic music. Much...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
Hiva
Ahmad Al Khatib & Kaveh Mahmudiyan
Ahmad Al Khatib and Kaveh Mahmudiyan have created Hiva, an album of traditional Ottoman-styled oud and percussion commissioned by Global...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
Our Sorrow
Maliheh Moradi & Ehsan Matoori
The sorrow referred to here is that of the women of Iran who, among many other things, are forbidden to...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
Echoes of Becoming
Born in Turkey and residing in Sweden, Canberk Ulas is a player and maker of the Armenian duduk, an ancient...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
Migrant Voices
Migrant Voices is a collaboration between two immigrants to Canada who discovered each other through the global music scene in...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
Tu Gulî
Olcay Bayir is a British/Kurdish-Alevi singer-songwriter who sings in Kurdish, Turkish and Armenian, and Tu Gulî is her third album,...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
