Reviews
Halak Halak
Snaking synth lines and exotic chord sequences collide with vigorous bass-laden beats and housey bedrock foundations, as East meets West...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Enlighten the Night
Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat has recorded an impressive series of albums – solo, with her sister Marjan Vahdat and with...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
The Rise Up
Mehmet Ali Sanhkol & Whatsnext?
Mehmet Ali Sanlikol already sings, plays ney, zurna and oud, but that doesn’t discourage this Turkish-American from penning The Rise...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Glsah Sanaanea with Shiran
Albums of music from Yemen emerge rarely in the West; albums of Yemeni women singers are rarer still and we...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Maslak Halay1
The whole sound of Ayyuka is summed up in the title of their fifth album; halay, aficionados of Turkish and...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Live at the Sydney Opera House
The oud is normally rather a modest instrument, so an oud concerto with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Hedûr: Solace of Time
If you have seen Aynur in Crossing the Bridge, the successful 2005 documentary by Fatih Akin about music in Istanbul,...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Rhythms of Tof Miriam
If, like me, you have a reptile-brain suspicion of recordings that bring together New Age sensibilities with world drums and...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
