Reviews
In Tribute to Talip Özkan
Turkish saz player Emre Gültekin has recorded two duo albums with Armenian duduk player Vardan Hovanissian (their Karin was a...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Giant + Guitar
Wewantsounds continues its remarkable work in excavating long deleted Arabic albums of the 1970s and reissuing them on LP (and...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Tropical Anatolia
At the bottom of my street is a restaurant called Tropical Sushi serving Japanese dishes with a South American theme....
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Dionysus vs Tamada
Georgian artist Lasha Chapel has already enjoyed some underground success performing smoky, Anglophone ballads backed by minimal electronic beats. After...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Qalaq
Born in Beirut at the outset of a civil war that devastated his country and set the pattern for decades...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Melodi
Kit Sebastian is the London-based duo of Turkish vocalist Merve Erdem and Anglo-French multi-instrumentalist Kit Martin, but you’d be forgiven...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Saet El-Hazz (The Luck Hour)
Egyptian multi-instrumentalist Maurice Louca is known for navigating between electronic dance music, crossovers with Egypt’s contemporary maghraganat music, participating in...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Kismet
Since their debut as Kolektif Istanbul, Krivoto (which came out nearing the peak of the Balkan hype in 2008), the...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Silence
Coşkun Karademir, Tord Gustavsen, Derya Türkan & Ömer Arslan
A master of the traditional Turkish long-neck lutes, Coşkun Karademir has released several remarkably adventurous recordings. With The Secret Ensemble...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
