Jazz Articles about Sakina Abdou

About Sakina Abdou

Album Review

Straight from the first notes, reality blurs and form becomes fluid. On The Forward Process Belgian guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe turns a literary notion of time into a working musical system. He sets his guitar alongside French saxophonist Sakina Abdou and English turntablist Mariam Rezaei on cycles that rarely resolve in the conventional sense. Under the moniker 1984--named after the birth year of the three protagonists, but with Orwellian echoes--the three traverse five pieces by Van Cauwenberghe intercut with three ...

Album Review

Abdou - Gouband - Warelis: Hammer, Roll and Leaf

Read "Hammer, Roll and Leaf" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
August 12, 2025

The multinational threesome of French saxophonist Sakina Abdou, French percussionist Toma Gouband and Polish pianist Marta Warelis establishes a striking group identity on Hammer Roll Leaf. From the opening track, “Roll," the trio's compositional instincts and collective discipline distinguish them from the crowded field of free improvisers. Warelis begins with cascading piano figures--robust, resonant and allowed to decay into silence. Abdou eventually enters, their alto saxophone lines darting and entwining with Warelis' lyric remnants, until they develop a dashing forward ...

Album Review

Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra: Eurythmia

Read "Eurythmia" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 26, 2022

Welcome to the jungle. Composer, pianist, and orchestra leader Eve Risser sends us greetings from the wilds. It is this forest she has been exploring with European and West African musicians. Her expedition is a hypnotic journey dense with percussive attacks and mesmeric states. The twelve piece Red Desert Orchestra is an extension of Risser's White Desert Orchestra, which gave us Les Deux Versants Se Regardent (Clean Feed, 2016). Here the influence of her Malian musicians is quite ...