Nathalie Handal's voice is thick with longing and mystery and calls to a time when words still made and unmade the world. Everything here is a rare and intense dance and yet these poems do not offer easy solace. But in every loss there is the knowledge of belonging, and ultimately redemption. That; and the powerful spell they weave is urgent and vital and necessary.
Chris Abani. Author of GraceLand and Becoming Abigail. 

On my way from Allentown to Philadelphia for a concert, I listened to Spell. I thought I would listen for a few minutes but ended up listening to the entire recording. As a musician I am used to hearing a singing voice accompanied by percussion… Nathalie's poetry and delivery is nothing other than singing with percussion.

Simon Shaheen. Turath and Blue Flame 

This is a work of great force and penetrating beauty  - an intimate lament of skin and string and breath and voice… Nathalie's heart is big, it has seen much and has traveled far, it is fashioned according to the shapes of memories and dreams and compassion. 

Breyten Breytanbach, Author of Lady One and A Season in Paradise 

As I listened to this album I was reminded that Palestine is alive. This recording is invested with the intelligence of a profound thinker, the touch of a compassionate lover, and the political awareness of a woman who knows that her pain is painfully linked to the pain of others…when hearing her words wrapped in such sympathetic music I am taken to another level. Nathalie Handal is a true cultural revolutionary. Spell is a wonderful creation.

Benjamin Zephaniah. Author of We are Britain and Face