Reviews
Oud for Palestine
Saied Silbak is rapidly gaining a reputation as one of London’s leading oud players and composers. His extensive musical vocabulary...
Reviewed in issue April/2026
Middle Eastern Dub
Under the alter ego Morego, Iranian musician and producer Mohamadreza Govahi has released a number of psychedelic-leaning ambient albums over...
Reviewed in issue April/2026
Callings of the Owed
Emerging from Cairo’s experimental underground, Mi3raj is a duo comprising poet/vocalist Mohamed Tarek Moussa and producer/muti-instrumentalist Abdelrahman Shaat. Their hypnotically...
Reviewed in issue April/2026
SafarNameh
Ziya Tabassian is an Iranian-born percussionist based in Canada. His main instrument is the tombak, the Persian goblet-shaped drum on...
Reviewed in issue April/2026
Wahj
On this, his second full-length album, Beirut-born, Amsterdam-based composer, artist and producer Toni Geitani pens a sonic thesis on Arabic...
Reviewed in issue April/2026
Başka Bahar
Over the last decade, there’s been a slew of European bands – often including a Turkish member – who’ve drawn...
Reviewed in issue April/2026
Dislocated Pulse
The debut album by Persian kamancheh virtuoso and composer Mehrnam Rastegari is a short but sharp statement, brimming with confidence...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2026
GABBEH
NAVA’s debut album, GABBEH, weaves heritage, introspection and exile into a lush, cinematic soundscape. Rooted in her Persian culture, the...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2026
