Reviews
Le Cri du Cyclope
French-Lebanese percussionist Wassim Halal was originally trained in Lebanese dabke music. His first album, Revolutionary Birds, with Mounir Troudi and...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
The Long March
Le Trio Joubran have been musical flag-bearers for the Palestinian people for more than a decade. For The Long March,...
Reviewed in issue December/2018
İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir
Gaye Su Akyol delivered a superb set at this year's WOMAD that focused strongly on the new songs that populate...
Reviewed in issue December/2018
Daqa'iq Tudaiq
Away from his work with various North American alt-rock bands such as Suuns and BIG|BRAVE, the Canadian-based composer/producer Radwan Ghazi...
Reviewed in issue December/2018
Ejdeha
Gordon Grdina is a guitarist and oud (lute) player with one foot in Vancouver and another in New York. Originally...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Bêdawîtî
Based in Germany, Kurdish tanbur (lute) player Cemîl Qoçgîrî has worked with Kurdish singer Aynur, notably on the Hawniyaz album...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
All Because of Love
Seyed Ali Jaberi & Sina Sarlak
Recorded live in concert at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, this album is a celebration of the...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Aspaklaria
Mordechai Beck & the Aspaklaria Group
The word aspaklaria has contrasting definitions in the Jewish Talmud: one rabbi defines it as a mirror, while another claims...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Sirojiddin Juraev
Born near the Ferghana Valley, a critical point on the ancient Silk Road trading route, Sirojiddin Juraev is a contemporary...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
