Reviews

AKKOR

Melike Şahin

Best known as the lead singer of the Turkish retro psychedelic rockers BaBa ZuLa, Melike Şahin has now set out...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

Tira-Tira

Duo Falak

Falak is the folk music of the Pamir Mountains in Central Asia dating back to pre-Islamic times. This half-hour performance...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

Dožam

Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi

With the rise in the number of female music graduates over the past couple of decades in Iran – where...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

Ghadr

Sandy Chamoun / Anthony Sahyoun / Jad Atoui

The trio of singer Sandy Chamoun and electronic music creators Anthony Sahyoun and Jad Atoui have produced an album that...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

The Bird of a Thousand Voices

Tigran Hamasyan & the Yerevan State Chamber Choir | Tigran Hamasyan

Pianist and composer Hamasyan certainly has his admirers and his album Luys i Luso with the Yerevan State Chamber Choir...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Safa

Nizar Rohana

Palestinian oud virtuoso Nizar Rohana returns with his third album Safa, which is a completely solo effort. While Rohana is...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Butterfly: Colors of Armenian Duduk

Sar Kamler

Butterfly is the debut album by Canadian/Armenian duduk player Sar Kamler, who came to the instrument surprisingly late in adulthood,...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

İstanbul Sokakları

Baba Zula | BaBa ZuLa

Hailed as ‘legendary’ this Istanbul-based four piece has been creating music best described as psychedelic for almost 30 years and...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Echoes of the Unseen

Qais Essar

In a journey from dawn until the close of night, rabab player Qais Essar’s musical day trip is traditional Afghan...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

mute

El Khat

Eyal el Wahab, the leader of El Khat sees their third album as ‘a story of endings and new beginnings.’...

Reviewed in issue November/2024