Tag Archives: Middle Eastern music

Maurice Louca & Elephantine’s Moonshine

Posted on 9th September 2023 by Gary Whitehouse

On Moonshine, Maurice Louca’s ensemble Elephantine uses classical Middle Eastern modal music as a springboard to an entrancing blend of genre-defying sounds. It’s a dense, heady swirl of multi-cultural instrumentation united by jazz and other improvisational styles and modernist classical … Continue reading →

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Suuns’ Fiction EP

Posted on 13th October 2020 by Gary Whitehouse

Suuns is a Montreal-based band whose music is an intriguing blend of guitar-keyboard post-rock music and experimental electronic elements. And when Ben Shemie, Liam O’Neill and Joseph Yarmush team up with their longtime friend Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (who performs as … Continue reading →

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Sivan Perwer’s Sivan Perwer

Posted on 25th November 2017 by Robert

Like so many politically active Third World musicians, Sivan Perwer is an exile from his native Kurdistan, at last report residing in Sweden. He has the distinction of having had his music banned by not one, but three governments. And, … Continue reading →

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