Reviews
Tango Macondo
Despite its name, Tango Macondo is not a tango record. It’s a soundscape of real and imaginary lands, born out...
Reviewed by Megan Iacobini de fazio in issue: March/2022
BAMANAN
On the surface of it, Irish-born, US-based stadium rock producer Jacknife Lee seems an improbable choice to helm the debut...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2022
Göç
Born in Turkey and currently residing in Athens, Cihan Türkoğlu is a lifelong practitioner of the Turkish folk lute bağlama...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2022
Magma
Taking inspiration from Mulatu Astatke and Fela Kuti, as well as traditional Western and Oriental music, this fourth album from...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: March/2022
Reclusive Rituals
In his first album for Batov Records, Tel Aviv-based jazz bassist Shay Hazan takes his sound in a different direction....
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2022
Sans Souci
As a Kurdish musician, born in the south of Turkey, now resident in France, Ruşan Filiztek is celebrating the music...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2022
Ruminate: Improvisations for Fretless Guitar and Dutar
American multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Marin is steeped in many music forms: on Ruminate he proves himself an imaginative interpreter of the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2022
Khalik Hena
There is surely no sound more richly redolent of 20th-century Arabic music than the great, swooning Egyptian orchestras that accompanied...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2022
