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Guitarist and composer Ayman Fanous is a musical explorer who thrives in duet settings. He has recorded three such outings over a span of a dozen years, the latter of which is the mystical and haunting Negoum (Stars in Arabic). On it Fanous collaborates with the restlessly inventive cellist Frances-Marie Uitti, who has pushed boundaries of her instrument into uncharted territory. When writing the music for this album Fanous drew inspiration from the work of medieval Islamic scholar ...

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Ayman Fanous / Frances-Marie Uitti: Negoum

Read "Negoum" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
February 27, 2020

The very flexible tone systems of the Middle East and Southern Asia have influenced Western music for decades. From John Coltrane to Jimmy Page and George Harrison, the sounds of those regions have often successfully fused with the disciplined beat of the West. Egyptian-born, New York-based guitarist and bouzouki player Ayman Fanous and American-born, Paris-based cellist Frances-Marie Uitti bring East and West together on Negoum but not in a predictable manner. Fanous appears to be most comfortable in ...

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Frances-Marie Uitti/Paul Griffiths: There Is Still Time

Read "There Is Still Time" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
June 16, 2005

Like its more jazz-centric regular issues, ECM's New Series--which has focused almost exclusively on classical composition, with a strong predilection for contemporary writers like Arvo Pärt and Giya Kancheli--has provided safe haven for projects that blur the boundaries of strict definition. Cellist Anja Lechner and pianist Vassilis Tsaboropoulos' Chants, Hymns and Dances interpreted the music of G.I. Gurdjieff with a more openly improvisational aesthetic that, in its combination of reverence and irreverence, paid the best possible tribute to Gurdjieff's more ...