Reviews

Azerbaijani Gitara, Vol 2

Rehman Memmdli

Bongo Joe Records’ first foray into gitara music from Azerbaijan (the aptly-titled Azerbaijani Gitara by Rüstem Quliyev, released in 2020)...

Reviewed in issue July/2024

Rabe

Aynur

The title of this album, Rabe, means ‘stand-up’ or ‘rise-up’ in Kurdish and Aynur Doğan has been standing up for...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Ousoul

Tarek Abdallah & Adel Shams El Din

Born in Alexandria and based in France, oud-player and composer Tarek Abdallah is a scholar of traditional Arabic music. Much...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Hiva

Ahmad Al Khatib & Kaveh Mahmudiyan

Ahmad Al Khatib and Kaveh Mahmudiyan have created Hiva, an album of traditional Ottoman-styled oud and percussion commissioned by Global...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Our Sorrow

Maliheh Moradi & Ehsan Matoori

The sorrow referred to here is that of the women of Iran who, among many other things, are forbidden to...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Echoes of Becoming

Canberk Ulas

Born in Turkey and residing in Sweden, Canberk Ulas is a player and maker of the Armenian duduk, an ancient...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Migrant Voices

Itamar Erez & Hamin Honari

Migrant Voices is a collaboration between two immigrants to Canada who discovered each other through the global music scene in...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Tu Gulî

Olcay Bayir

Olcay Bayir is a British/Kurdish-Alevi singer-songwriter who sings in Kurdish, Turkish and Armenian, and Tu Gulî is her third album,...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

I am Kurdish

Mohammad Syfkhan

Sometimes moments of grace spring from conflict in a way that feels like the premise for a film or a...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Araxes

A.G.A Trio

These tunes are steeped in sadness, arriving from Anatolia, Georgia and Armenia, the homelands of each band member. This is...

Reviewed in issue May/2024