Spellbinding Music
Genre-bending & spine-tingling
Tunisian composer, oud player and singer Dhafer Youssef is a wandering musician constantly migrating from one country to another within Europe and North Africa, having lived and worked in Tunisia, France, Austria, Norway or Turkey over the years. Following up on the superb Abu Nawas Rhapsody (2010), Dhafer Youssef’s new album …
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Time Out provides an excellent introduction to Dhafer Youssef: "...the Tunisian vocalist and oud virtuoso juxtaposes the ancient, mystical, hypnotic music of Islamic Sufism with the textures of electric jazz." While Dhafer Youssef's electronic side is more evident in older recordings like Divine Shadows (2006) or Digital …
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