Reviews
Abdallar’a Kalan / The Heritage of the Abdals
This special project, brought out by Turkey’s Kalan after three years of preparation, collects new recordings of 46 Abdal folk...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Temple of Hope
How can a sense of beauty be found amid fear and cruelty? Saba Alizadeh, on his third album now, continues...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Love’s Company
There is an arch, stylised and arthouse feel to Turan. The Turkish singer-songwriter is a longtime member of the London...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Un Éloge d’Oblique: Confluence #1.2.3
Constantly exploring and expanding the boundaries of her instrument, French kaval player Isabelle Courroy presents here a three-part album (which...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
AKKOR
Best known as the lead singer of the Turkish retro psychedelic rockers BaBa ZuLa, Melike Şahin has now set out...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Dožam
With the rise in the number of female music graduates over the past couple of decades in Iran – where...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Ghadr
Sandy Chamoun / Anthony Sahyoun / Jad Atoui
The trio of singer Sandy Chamoun and electronic music creators Anthony Sahyoun and Jad Atoui have produced an album that...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
The Bird of a Thousand Voices
Tigran Hamasyan & the Yerevan State Chamber Choir | Tigran Hamasyan
Pianist and composer Hamasyan certainly has his admirers and his album Luys i Luso with the Yerevan State Chamber Choir...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
