Reviews
Sans Souci
As a Kurdish musician, born in the south of Turkey, now resident in France, Ruşan Filiztek is celebrating the music...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Ruminate: Improvisations for Fretless Guitar and Dutar
American multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Marin is steeped in many music forms: on Ruminate he proves himself an imaginative interpreter of the...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Khalik Hena
There is surely no sound more richly redolent of 20th-century Arabic music than the great, swooning Egyptian orchestras that accompanied...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Zār Songs for the Spirits
Zār is a rite that arrived in Egypt with migration – partly due to slavery – from sub-Saharan East Africa....
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Elif Sanchez
Singer Elif Sanchez grew up in Istanbul, before moving to the US to study jazz oboe and voice at Berklee...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Chant Amazigh
Even devoted followers of Algerian music may find the name Majid Soula rings no bells – thankfully, the latest (number...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Frigya
Imed Alibi is a Tunisian percussionist with a curious mind. Not content to take the predictable path, his two previous...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
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
