Reviews
Beyond the Borders
Maria Farantouri & Cihan Türkoglu
This project brings together the Greek singer Maria Farantouri and Anatolian saz player and composer Cihan Türkoğlu, who arranged all...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Music from Turkey
Various Artists/Sameyda Ensemble
This CD reissues two albums: a collection of field recordings by Indian ethnomusicologist Deben Bhattacharya, issued as Turkisk Musik in...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Safar: Les Âmes Retrouvées
The Syrian oud player and singer Waed Bouhassoun grew up in the culturally rich Jebel Druze region, just over the...
Reviewed in issue June/2019
Uneven Sky
This is a hugely ambitious and timely double album from the New York-based, Syrian-born virtuoso clarinettist and composer Kinan Azmeh....
Reviewed in issue June/2019
Bendewarî/İntizar/Longing
Sakina Teyna is a traditional singer who was born into a Kurdish family in Varto, a small town in the...
Reviewed in issue June/2019
Rüya
Olcay Bayir's father was an aşik, a musical bard of Anatolia, and seems to have made a strong impression on...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Such a Moon, the Thief Pauses to Sing
Since having met over a decade ago at Ross Daly's Labyrinth Musical Workshop in Crete, Peppe Frana and Christos Barbas...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Visions of Iraq
Ahmed Mukhtar is a London-based Iraqi musician, renowned for his masterful playing of the oud. On Visions of Iraq, Mukhtar performs...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
