Reviews

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/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/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/2024

Golestan

Elana Sasson & Golestan Ensemble

‘Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area,’ Elana Sasson is a vocalist and saz player of Iranian and...

Reviewed in issue August/2024

The Handover

The Handover

The Handover are a trio of Aly Eissa, Ayman Asfour and Jonas Cambien, their eponymous debut consisting of two epic...

Reviewed in issue August/2024

Amrak Seedna & Abtal Wa Harameyah

Ziad Rahbani

Ziad Rahbani is the son of Lebanese icon Fairuz and famed composer Assi Rahbani and a living legend in Lebanon,...

Reviewed in issue July/2024

The Kindest One

Jorga Mesfin

Jorga Mesfin is a comparatively new kid on the Ethio-jazz block. The Ethiopian saxophonist also happens to be Mulatu Astatke’s...

Reviewed in issue July/2024

Azerbaijani Gitara, Vol 2

Rehman Memmdli

Bongo Joe Records’ first foray into gitara music from Azerbaijan (the aptly-titled Azerbaijani Gitara by Rüstem Quliyev, released in 2020)...

Reviewed in issue July/2024

Rabe

Aynur

The title of this album, Rabe, means ‘stand-up’ or ‘rise-up’ in Kurdish and Aynur Doğan has been standing up for...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Ousoul

Tarek Abdallah & Adel Shams El Din

Born in Alexandria and based in France, oud-player and composer Tarek Abdallah is a scholar of traditional Arabic music. Much...

Reviewed in issue June/2024