Reviews
Chat Iskandaria
Lebanese singer Nouhad Wadie Haddad, better known simply as Fairuz, falls into that select category of ‘living legends’. After recording...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Neshan
The Ān Ensemble is a nine-piece classical Iranian group led by Sanaz Sattarzadeh, who plays tar. Most of the classic...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Electro Baghdad
Projects that fuse electronic and traditional music risk doing neither genre justice if they don’t get the basics – songwriting...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Nishabourak
Hamid Motebassem and George Crotty Trio
This collaborative album is born of a musical meeting at Toronto's Experimental Link Series event. The series focuses on celebrating...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Sametou Sawtan
Lebanese sextet Sanam's second release consolidates the brooding post-rock territory proposed on their 2023 debut, Aykathani Malakon Again, Sandy Chamoun's...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
A Selection of Music from Libyan Tapes
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
A spacey buzz is slowly cranked up in volume as Cheb Bakr's ‘Allom’ opens this collection of Libyan cassette tracks....
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Kapaim
Multi-instrumentalist Uri Brauner Kinrot has been leading his Ouzo Bazooka outfit for over a decade now, helping pioneer a blend...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Born in the City of Tanta: Lower Egyptian Urban Folklore and Bedouin Shaabi from Libya’s Bourini Records 1968–75
Seemingly a world removed from the lushly orchestrated, exquisitely tasteful music of state-approved Egyptian icons like Mohamed Abdel-Wahab and Oum...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
