Reviews
Taraf Syriana
The four-piece Taraf Syriana is made up of virtuoso musicians from Syria, Lebanon, Moldova and Switzerland, now based in Montréal....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2023
Metamorphosis
Crossover albums don't often get one's pulse racing, and only two tracks on this album from the Japanese American koto...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: May/2023
The Sound of the Soul
Debashish Bhattacharya is one of the world's great musical innovators. He's a composer and virtuoso guitarist, who transformed the Indian...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2023
Tropikadelic
Ireke (meaning ‘Sugar Cane’ in Yoruba) are a French duo with musical bona fides and a range of friends to...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2023
Bamako
Hailing from Budapest but now resident in Canada, Lukacs grew up with Hungarian Jewish folk music and trained on the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2023
Ghazals and Thumris: From the Musical Heart of Budapest
Pratibha Singh Baghel, Kavya Limaye, Deepak Pandit, The Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Ghazal and thumri are wonderful poetic sung genres from northern South Asia, emerging out of 19th-century courtesan and Muslim traditions...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: May/2023
On Our Way
Based in Istanbul and led by the powerful singer, percussionist and composer Michal Elia Kamal (born in Israel to Iranian...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2023
Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels
The Battle of the Hotels was a vicious conflict that took place in Beirut at the beginning of the Lebanese...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2023
Love in Exile
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily
This extraordinary collaboration can broadly be described as Sufi electronica, but it transcends musical genres. Arooj Aftab is a grammy-award...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2023
