Results for "Kareem Roustom"

Kareem Roustom

Almitra's Question

By Kareem Roustom

Label: Fuller Street Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Sandstorm, Naima, Almitras' Question, O Sacrum Convivium, Burnt Onions, Salwa's Last Dance

Kareem Roustom, El-Zafeer Ensemble: Almitra's Question

by Dan McClenaghan
March 7, 2005

Guitarist Kareem Roustom was born in Damascus, Syria to American and Syrian parents; on Almitra's Question he and the El-Zafeer Ensemble make music that blends American jazz with Arabic sounds. The rhythm patterns and the distinctive percussion (riqq and daff) lend an exotic and crisply declamatory backdrop to Roustom's lush accoustic guitar playing and violinist Hanna ...