Reviews

Butterfly: Colors of Armenian Duduk

Sar Kamler

Butterfly is the debut album by Canadian/Armenian duduk player Sar Kamler, who came to the instrument surprisingly late in adulthood,...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

İstanbul Sokakları

Baba Zula | BaBa ZuLa

Hailed as ‘legendary’ this Istanbul-based four piece has been creating music best described as psychedelic for almost 30 years and...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Echoes of the Unseen

Qais Essar

In a journey from dawn until the close of night, rabab player Qais Essar’s musical day trip is traditional Afghan...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

mute

El Khat

Eyal el Wahab, the leader of El Khat sees their third album as ‘a story of endings and new beginnings.’...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

Abu Kenda

Akram Abdulfattah

Palestinian-American violinist Akram Abdulfattah returns with a first release since his 2022 EP From Here. Abu Kenda (Kenda's Father) is...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

Trumpets of Michel-Ange

Ibrahim Maalouf

Long based in France, trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf was born in Lebanon and this is a tribute to his roots and...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

Kanzafula

Ahmed Moneka

This album is more transnational than the subtitle (Afro Iraqi Sufi Music) suggests. The instruments used include a synthesiser, saxophone...

Reviewed in issue November/2024

Erbil

Omar Souleyman

The Syrian singer Omar Souleyman’s fifth studio album, Erbil, is filled with the celebration of life through music. Souleyman performs...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Feyzullah Çinar Eserleri 1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

If there’s any Turkish record label going to pay tribute to the Alevi-Bektaşi minstrel Feyzullah Çinar then it’s got to...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Keyeyî

Ali Doğan Gönültaş

Ali Doğan Gönültaş is the rising star of Kurdish music in Turkey. This album is just him solo, his emotional...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024