Reviews
Chant Amazigh
Even devoted followers of Algerian music may find the name Majid Soula rings no bells – thankfully, the latest (number...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Frigya
Imed Alibi is a Tunisian percussionist with a curious mind. Not content to take the predictable path, his two previous...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
In Tribute to Talip Özkan
Turkish saz player Emre Gültekin has recorded two duo albums with Armenian duduk player Vardan Hovanissian (their Karin was a...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Giant + Guitar
Wewantsounds continues its remarkable work in excavating long deleted Arabic albums of the 1970s and reissuing them on LP (and...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Tropical Anatolia
At the bottom of my street is a restaurant called Tropical Sushi serving Japanese dishes with a South American theme....
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Dionysus vs Tamada
Georgian artist Lasha Chapel has already enjoyed some underground success performing smoky, Anglophone ballads backed by minimal electronic beats. After...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2022
Qalaq
Born in Beirut at the outset of a civil war that devastated his country and set the pattern for decades...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Melodi
Kit Sebastian is the London-based duo of Turkish vocalist Merve Erdem and Anglo-French multi-instrumentalist Kit Martin, but you’d be forgiven...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Saet El-Hazz (The Luck Hour)
Egyptian multi-instrumentalist Maurice Louca is known for navigating between electronic dance music, crossovers with Egypt’s contemporary maghraganat music, participating in...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
