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Anouar Brahem: Le Pas du Chat Noir
by Sergio Masferrer
Anouar Brahem knows perfectly the formula to condense in the air the fragrance of incense, the visual impression of an orange-colored sky over the adobe terraces in Tunis, and a sea of reminiscences shaken up by his melodies. His music seems to be languid, but its lassitude takes you in, absorbs you, and softly converts any ...
Le Pas Du Chat Noir
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Le pas du chat noir; De tout ton coeur; Leila au pays du carrousel;
Pique-nique a Nagpur; C'est ailleurs; Toi qui salt; L'arbre qui voit; Un point
bleu; Les ailes du Bourak; Rue du Départ; Leila au Pays du Carrousel (Variation); Déjà la Nuit.
Anouar Brahem: Le Pas Du Chat Noir
by AAJ Staff
The outstanding clarity of Anouar Brahem's new trio record demonstrates the composer's ability to combine several cultural influences without sounding contrived or disjointed. For this project, Brahem composed 12 pieces for the most unusual combination of piano, accordion, and oud (a type of lute). The music came out of a long period of listening and composing ...
Thimar
Label: ECM Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Badhra; Kashf; Houdouth; Talwin; Waqt; Uns; Al Hizam Al Dhahbi; Qurb; Mazad; Kernow; Hulmu Rabia.
Anouar Brahem: Thimar
by Glenn Astarita
The oud is an ancient short-necked, plucked Arabic instrument. On Thimar, East meets West with oud instrumentalist Anouar Brahem along with jazz masters, saxophonist/bass clarinetist John Surman and bassist Dave Holland. The opener, “Badhra," commences with Surman's light as a feather soprano work while Holland and Brahem successively join the festivities as if they were doing ...
Anouar Brahem: Thimar
by Larry Koenigsberg
Once again ECM expands the boundaries of jazz. This brings up the question of whether this music is jazz, and purists would argue that it's not: no blues, no standards, no drums. Why not go all the way and decry the absence of banjo and tuba? The fact is that there are elements of jazz here, ...
