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Anouar Brahem: Le Pas Du Chat Noir

Read "Le Pas Du Chat Noir" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
September 7, 2002

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 ...

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Khomsa

By Anouar Brahem

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2000

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Anouar Brahem: Thimar

Read "Thimar" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
February 1, 1999

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 ...

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Anouar Brahem: Thimar

Read "Thimar" reviewed by Larry Koenigsberg

by Larry Koenigsberg
January 1, 1999

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, ...

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