Reviews

Ejdeha

Gordon Grdina's The Marrow

Gordon Grdina is a guitarist and oud (lute) player with one foot in Vancouver and another in New York. Originally...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Naz

Liraz

When Liraz Charhi began writing her third album, she decided to do things differently. After an indifferent response to her...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Bêdawîtî

Cemîl Qoçgîrî & Manuel Lohnes

Based in Germany, Kurdish tanbur (lute) player Cemîl Qoçgîrî has worked with Kurdish singer Aynur, notably on the Hawniyaz album...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

All Because of Love

Seyed Ali Jaberi & Sina Sarlak

Recorded live in concert at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, this album is a celebration of the...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Aspaklaria

Mordechai Beck & the Aspaklaria Group

The word aspaklaria has contrasting definitions in the Jewish Talmud: one rabbi defines it as a mirror, while another claims...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Sirojiddin Juraev

Sirojiddin Juraev

Born near the Ferghana Valley, a critical point on the ancient Silk Road trading route, Sirojiddin Juraev is a contemporary...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Zamaan Ya Sukkar: Exotic Love Songs and Instrumentals from the Egyptian 60s

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ghent-based record label and DJ collective Radio Martiko answered the prayers of rare record enthusiasts worldwide when they re-released Abdou...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Ta Ki Dum

Ta Ki Dum

Ta, ki and dum are three bol (mnemonic syllables) taken from the Indian technique of speaking rhythms that define the...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Al Mutamid de Sevilla

Salim Fergani

There are many excellent recordings of Arab-Andalusian music, including dozens on the label Pneuma, directed by the Spanish musicologist Eduardo...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Lorin

Mizgîn

With the Kurdish question still a festering sore in Turkish politics it's hard to discuss this album in purely musical...

Reviewed in issue October/2018