Reviews
Qanat
Misagh Joolaee & Sebastian Flaig
A collaboration between Iranian kamancheh (spike fiddle) player Misagh Joolaee and German percussionist Sebastian Flaig, this album explores new instrumental...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
ARARATh
Davit Drambyan, born in Armenia and living and working in Germany, is a musician and composer with a considerable number...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Sharayet El Disco: Egyptian 80s Disco & Boogie Cassette Tracks
Anyone who travelled in the Arabic world from the 1970s through to earlier this century will recall how cassettes were...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Tafrigh Vol 1
Tafrigh cannot be categorised easily. Rooted in different musical genres and styles, it is a mesmerising post-modern mixture of bizarre...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Rahawan
Born in Nazareth and resident in Haifa where she practises as an architect, the 30-year-old Zaatry is also a singer-songwriter...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Bi Cinnete Bakar
While it is true that young people in Turkey are getting clued in on 70s Anatolian psych through international acts...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Abandoned
Abandoned is a cross-section from Iran’s vibrant and impressively imaginative ‘alternative’ music scene. ‘Bayāt-E-Fārsi’ by Bamdad Afshar is an example...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Homage to Nazım Hikmet
Tülay German & François Rabbath
Poet, playwright and novelist Nazım Hikmet has cast a huge shadow over Turkish culture for a century. A pioneer of...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Houdou Nisbi
Drum roll, please – and a sinewy horn line and psychedelic Moog squiggle – for the vinyl release of this...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Şatellites
Şatellites are a brilliant Tel Aviv Turkish-psych cover band – but they’re also much more than that. Some of their...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
