Reviews

Sababa 5

Sababa 5

Tel Aviv's Sababa 5 are a quintet of hard-working musos who have loaned their talents to a boatload of Israeli...

Reviewed in issue April/2023

The Unknown Spanish Levant Vol 2: Egypt

Luis Giménez Amorós

An academic in ethnomusicology as well as a musician and composer who has been performing since he was a teenager...

Reviewed in issue April/2023

Nagham Fi Hayati

Farid El Atrache

Born in Syria in 1910, Farid El Atrache was an icon of 20th-century Arab music and culture. Having moved to...

Reviewed in issue April/2023

Barki

Maltash

Born in Beirut, Lebanon and residing in Brussels, Maltash (Arabic for ‘Wicked’) is an experimental musician attempting to deconstruct industrial...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Kifak Inta

Fairuz

The retro-specialist Parisian label Wewantsounds continues its vinyl-only series of releases by Fairuz, the eminent Lebanese singer. This time it's...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

The Series of Music for Young Adults: Iranian Folk Songs

Pari Zangeneh

Originally released in 1976 by Iran's Centre for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults as part of a...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Amrat

Rasha Nahas

There is something about discovering one's native tongue after a brief fling abroad with a foreign language. Whether out of...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Songs of Horaman

Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian

It’s hard to believe Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian was only 17 when he recorded this debut album in 2019. For sure,...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

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Ertuğrul Erhan & Meriç Dönük

If you can get past the absolutely dreadful title, this album does contain some nice moments. Ertuğrul Erhan, on violin,...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Orkos

Maha

As one of the few female singers operating within Egypt’s fertile 70s jazz scene, Maha was picked out as a...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023