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
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
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 is a collaboration between two immigrants to Canada who discovered each other through the global music scene in...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
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
Sometimes moments of grace spring from conflict in a way that feels like the premise for a film or a...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
These tunes are steeped in sadness, arriving from Anatolia, Georgia and Armenia, the homelands of each band member. This is...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Bahareh Fayazi & Asareh Shekarchi
Nasim-e Sahar, featuring the duo of Bahareh Fayazi on tar and Asareh Shekarchi on tombak and avaz (Iranian classical singing),...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Sezen Aksu: an unconventional contemporary female public figure in Turkey, for half a century she commented with her songs on...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Farah Kaddour’s inaugural solo venture, Badā, unfolds as a deliberate exploration of the buzuq, a Persian lute akin to the...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
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