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Album Review

Anouar Brahem: Blue Maqams

Read "Blue Maqams" reviewed by John Kelman


Following an unusually long, five-year gap between 2009's low register-driven The Astounding Eyes of Rita and 2014's particularly ambitious orchestral collaboration, Souvenance, Tunisian oudist Anouar Brahem returns with Blue Maqams, another game-changing release on ECM Records. Change--or, in some cases, natural evolution--has never been hard to find on Brahem's previous nine albums for the label, the oudist's consistent home (barring his soundtrack to The Silences of the Palace, release in 1994 by Caroline) since his ethno-centric trio date, Barzakh (1991). ...

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Anouar Brahem: Blue Maqams

Read "Blue Maqams" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Fin dal suo disco d'esordio (Barzakh del 1991, pubblicato, come tutti i successivi lavori, dalla ECM e preceduto solo da alcune cassette autoprodotte) il compositore e suonatore di oud tunisino Anouar Brahem è stato tra i principali esponenti di una musica a cavallo tra Medio Oriente e Occidente, cercando una fusione tra musica araba, improvvisazione jazzistica e musica classica europea, insieme al coetaneo collega libanese Rabih Abou-Khalil che lo ha preceduto di qualche anno. Il suo ultimo lavoro, Blue Maqams, ...

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Live Review

Anouar Brahem at Jazzablanca Festival 2015

Read "Anouar Brahem at Jazzablanca Festival 2015" reviewed by Mehdi El Mouden


Anouar Brahem Hippodrome Anfa Jazzablanca Festival Casablanca, MoroccoApril 20, 2015 Tunisian oudist/ composer Anouar Brahem is widely acclaimed as a pioneer of the fusion between Middle Eastern music and jazz, with a career spanning over thirty years. In the beginning of the nineties he contributed to the oud celebration spreading in the western world through a music that brought together evasive poetry with elegant arrangements. Well-versed in classical Arabic tenets, his solos ...

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Anouar Brahem: Souvenance

Read "Souvenance" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Sei anni dopo il precedente The Astounding Eyes of Rita, il tunisino Anouar Brahem ritorna con un nuovo progetto. Il lungo intervallo è dovuto agli avvenimenti politici che dalla fine del 2010 hanno interessato tutto il Nordafrica a partire dalla Tunisia dando origine alla cosiddetta 'Primavera araba' evocata dal titolo del disco e dalla foto di copertina, e che hanno avuto un profondo impatto emotivo sul compositore con l'alternarsi di speranze e timori, anche se la musica, a detta dello ...

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Extended Analysis

Souvenance

Read "Souvenance" reviewed by John Kelman


If we are, in the final analysis, the sum total of our experiences, then it stands to reason that the work of musicians (and other artists) is a reflection of the events that touch their lives. Souvenance means “recollection," and if there is not, as oudist Anouar Brahem claims, “a direct link between my compositions and the events taking place in Tunisia," then there's little doubt that the album's cover image--taken by Nacer Talef in the Tunisian capital of Tunis ...

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Live Review

Montreal Jazz Festival 2011

Read "Montreal Jazz Festival 2011" reviewed by John Kelman


Days 1-3 | Days 4- 6 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Montreal, Canada June 25- July 4, 2011After a hiatus in 2010, in order to take a three-week Norwegian road trip, it's great to get back to the festival that the Guinness Book of Records calls “The biggest jazz festival in the world." But for those who think such a designation has to mean a populist-driven festival, geared towards accessibility and big ...

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Album Review

Anouar Brahem: The Astounding Eyes of Rita

Read "The Astounding Eyes of Rita" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il musicista tunisino Anouar Brahem aggiunge un altro tassello alla sua personale sintesi di oriente e occidente. Dopo il capitolo in trio con Jean-Louis Matinier e François Couturier documentato da due album (Le pas du chat noir e Le voyage de Sahar), decisamente orientato verso un impressionismo cameristico di stampo europeo, ritorna alla dimensione più mediorientale dei suoi primi lavori con questo CD, inciso in compagnia di un quartetto misto che vede l'oud di Brahem accompagnato dal clarinetto basso di ...


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