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Anouar Brahem: Blue Maqams

November 29, 2018 By guillaume

Anouar Brahem - Blue-Maqams (2017)

The fear of repetition is probably what underpins Anouar Brahem’s entire recording career. “C’est ma hantise” (It’s my worst nightmare) said the Tunisian-born oud player in a recent interview. Since his début for the Munich-based ECM record label in 1991, the musician has performed in solo or shared the studio with a ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Jazz Tagged With: Anouar Brahem, double bass, drums, oud, piano, quartet

Mohamed Abozekry & Heejaz Extended: Ring Road

July 30, 2015 By guillaume

Mohamed Abozekry & Heejaz Extended - Ring Road (2015)

Born in Cairo in 1991, Mohamed Abozekry is a young virtuoso on the oud whose intricate compositions borrow equally from the Arabic Maqam (the traditional system of modes and scales used in oriental music), blues, jazz and world music. Released in February 2015 last on the Jazz Village record label, Ring Road is the musician’s ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Jazz Tagged With: Mohamed Abozekry, oud

Anouar Brahem: Souvenance

March 18, 2015 By guillaume

Anouar Brahem - Souvenance (2015)

Since the late 1980s and through an impeccable discography with the Munich-based ECM Record Label, Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem has been flirting with jazz improvisation, fusion, modern classical or chamber music while recording solo, with small trio or quartet formations. Traditionally an accompanying instrument, the ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Modern Classical Tagged With: Anouar Brahem, orchestra, oud

Anouar Brahem: Le Pas du Chat Noir

June 21, 2014 By guillaume

Anouar Brahem - Le Pas du Chat Noir (2002)

Introducing Le Pas du Chat Noir (2002), Tunisian oud master and composer Anouar Bahem notes that the music on the record emerged as A tempo passed on to me by the movement of a tree I could see from my window, swaying gently in the breeze.  Anouar Brahem – Liner notes Since then, I have come to associate Anouar ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Modern Classical Tagged With: accordion, Anouar Brahem, oud, piano

Dhafer Youssef: Whirling birds ceremony

November 7, 2013 By guillaume

Dhafer Youssef - Birds Requiem (2013)

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 ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Jazz Tagged With: clarinet, Dhafer Youssef, fusion, oud, voice

Dhafer Youssef: Les ondes orientales

February 28, 2013 By guillaume

Dhafer Youssef Abu Nawas Rhapsody

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 ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Jazz Tagged With: Dhafer Youssef, fusion, oud, piano, voice

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