Ziad Nawfal, Nour Sokhon and Stefan Christoff present Signals and connection [mix]

Early this year, we reviewed Nour Sokhon‘s Beirut Birds, which Richard Allen found to be “teeming with urgency, … an example of an album released at exactly the right time.” Another recent record, Beyond All Borderlines, is an evocative collaboration

ACL 2024 ~ Top Ten Drone

In each of the past six years, a female composer has taken the top spot in our overall year-end list.  If this happens again next week, the eventual winner may come from the land of drone, as seven of our

Yara Asmar ~ Stuttering Music

By 2006, more than a decade and a half after the conclusion of the Lebanese Civil War, the city of Beirut seemed to be experiencing an era of cultural resurgence. The Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon had finally ended in

Daou ~ Sanctuary

The idea of sanctuary is inviting: a place of safety, where no harm will come; a welcoming nation for refugees; a place of worship, free from the outside world.  In Georges Daou‘s album of the same name, sanctuary refers to an escape from