Reviews
Oyoun Al Kalam
Ramzi Aburedwan & Dal’Ouna Ensemble
Originally recorded in 2007, Oyoun Al Kalam, by multi-instrumentalist Ramzi Aburedwan & Dal’Ouna Ensemble finally gets a digital release 17...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Intizar
Mohammad Motamedi & Rembrandt Trio
When I visited the national Fajr Music Festival in Tehran for the first time, I walked into a performance by...
Reviewed in issue April/2024
1325 Ibn Battutah
Following a near 14-year break, Syriana return with their first full-length album since 2010’s acclaimed debut The Road to Damascus....
Reviewed in issue April/2024
Dream
US-based bandleader of Mitra Sumara, Yvette Massoudi, covers 60s and 70s Iranian pop. Notably she pays tribute to the popular...
Reviewed in issue April/2024
Wusul
With his debut solo album, 2021’s Reclusive Rituals, Tel Aviv-based bassist and composer Shay Hazan revealed a simple idea: harnessing...
Reviewed in issue April/2024
Crystal Lexicon
There really is some excellent and inspiring stuff coming out of Tehran these days and Crystal Lexicon is no exception....
Reviewed in issue December/2023
Essentials
We often associate Iranian music with long, melancholy pieces. But Persian culture is rich in folkloric music as well, rooted...
Reviewed in issue December/2023
Monajat
Galeet Dardashti & Younes Dardashti
Galeet Dardashti is the US-based granddaughter of Younes Dardashti, a pre-revolutionary master singer of Persian classical music, who performed at...
Reviewed in issue December/2023
Zartir
The Gurdjieff Ensemble | The Gurdjieff Ensemble & Levon Eskenian
George Gurdjieff (c 1867-1949) was a philosopher, mystic and composer, whose music is generally known through the transcriptions of the...
Reviewed in issue December/2023
