Coşkun Karademir's two previous albums in collaboration with international artists were both received with some critical acclaim. This is the...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
S H I R A N was born in Israel but is half-Yemeni and half-Iraqi. And that comes through on...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Born in Tehran in 1983, Saba Alizadeh is a virtuoso of the Iranian kamancheh (spike fiddle). With an extensive background...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Palestinian oud and buzuq player and composer Basel Zayed brings together fellow Palestinian Layth Sidiq on violin and Iraqi/Jordanian cellist...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gültekin
Armenian duduk (oboe) player Vardan Hovanissian and Belgian-Turkish singer and saz (lute) player Emre Gültekin recorded the beautiful album Adana...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
Born into a long line of muezzins (men who call Muslims to prayer), Dhafer Youssef discovered his own melodic voice...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
French-Lebanese percussionist Wassim Halal was originally trained in Lebanese dabke music. His first album, Revolutionary Birds, with Mounir Troudi and...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
Le Trio Joubran have been musical flag-bearers for the Palestinian people for more than a decade. For The Long March,...
Reviewed in issue December/2018
Gaye Su Akyol delivered a superb set at this year's WOMAD that focused strongly on the new songs that populate...
Reviewed in issue December/2018
Away from his work with various North American alt-rock bands such as Suuns and BIG|BRAVE, the Canadian-based composer/producer Radwan Ghazi...
Reviewed in issue December/2018
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