Reviews
I am Kurdish
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
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
Nasim-e Sahar
Bahareh Fayazi & Asareh Shekarchi
Nasim-e Sahar, featuring the duo of Bahareh Fayazi on tar and Asareh Shekarchi on tombak and avaz (Iranian classical singing),...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Süeda Sings Sezen Aksu
Sezen Aksu: an unconventional contemporary female public figure in Turkey, for half a century she commented with her songs on...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Badā
Farah Kaddour’s inaugural solo venture, Badā, unfolds as a deliberate exploration of the buzuq, a Persian lute akin to the...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
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
