Reviews
Chants Mystiques d’Algérie
Four years on from Renyate, her tribute to great, if sometimes marginal, Algerian female singers such as Meriem Fekkai, Fadela...
Reviewed in issue April/2018
Intersection
Where do you even begin to start with the situation in the Middle East? So many artists have tried to...
Reviewed in issue April/2018
Ahwar
This album is here, there and everywhere. Meaning it is jazz; it is traditional Arabic folk; it is avant-garde; it...
Reviewed in issue April/2018
Neotolian Song
Had Kate Bush come from Cappadocia, she might have sounded something like Turkish-born, Boston-based singer-songwriter Nazan Nihal. With her musical...
Reviewed in issue March/2018
Endless Path
Mahsa Vahdat & Coskun Karademir
A while ago, the Secret Ensemble from Istanbul invited Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat to make a recording, the critically acclaimed...
Reviewed in issue March/2018
Jedid
Osama Abdulrasol is a qanun (zither) player and composer whose fusion style blends Middle Eastern, Western classical and jazz influences,...
Reviewed in issue March/2018
Yeraz
Jivan Gasparyan Duduk Ensemble
There are few instruments as beautiful as the Armenian duduk. Its plaintive, reedy tone seems to exude melancholy. Djivan (or...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018
Maqâm Roads
Zied Zouari is a violin virtuoso who was surely destined to specialise in fusion styles. Born into a family of...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018
Lekhfa
Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca, Tamer Abu Ghazaleh
Maryam Saleh and Tamer Abu Ghazaleh's musical alliance does not come as a surprise – not only because they are...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018
Habibi Funk
Subtitled ‘an eclectic selection of music from the Arab world,' the majority of the tracks on this compilation come from...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018
