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Marwan Allam's Bab Bhar: The Travelling Tale Of Tunis
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Marwan Allam's debut Bab Bhar combines Arabic, North African and Andalusian forms with modern jazz, to create a synthesis that sets the musical languages of the traditional, within the framework of the new.The album is named after the gate that connects the old and new cities of Tunis, and Allam's compositions build a bridge between old musics and new by building on rhythms, metres, idioms and intonations that the jazz listener would not expect to hear in a jazz context.
Tunisian Born, New York-based jazz bassist Marwan Allam is our musical guest.
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