Reviews
Incantations
In recent years, there has been an effort to broaden the expressional potentials of Iranian classical music. The genre has...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Coup of Gods
Yet again risking imprisonment in his native Iran for releasing this album, Mehdi Rajabian’s latest effort showcases Persian tonalities, a...
Reviewed in issue April/2022
Confluence #2: Le Chant des Sources
Usually made of hard wood, the kaval is an end-blown pastoral flute found in Turkey, Armenia, Greece, Albania, North Macedonia,...
Reviewed in issue April/2022
Rişar & Kupa 4
These songs stem from a perilous time in Turkish history when ethnic strife between Turks, Greeks and Armenians was beginning...
Reviewed in issue April/2022
Sounds from the Saray
Apparently taken prisoner in his youth by marauding Tatars and sold at the slave market in Constantinople, Wojciech Bobowski (c1610-1675)...
Reviewed in issue April/2022
Göç
Born in Turkey and currently residing in Athens, Cihan Türkoğlu is a lifelong practitioner of the Turkish folk lute bağlama...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Sans Souci
As a Kurdish musician, born in the south of Turkey, now resident in France, Ruşan Filiztek is celebrating the music...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Ruminate: Improvisations for Fretless Guitar and Dutar
American multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Marin is steeped in many music forms: on Ruminate he proves himself an imaginative interpreter of the...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Khalik Hena
There is surely no sound more richly redolent of 20th-century Arabic music than the great, swooning Egyptian orchestras that accompanied...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
