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Peninsular

Label: Edict Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Indisar; Hala Land; Samrias; Qumairah; Al Qorbi Nasnas; Gate of Tears; Peninsular; Rastprints; Ayyala Cubana.

Article: Album Review

On his third release Peninsular, pianist and composer Tarek Yamani continues to explore the amalgamation of Arabic music and American jazz. His work is more than a simple juxtaposition of disparate styles as it is built upon shared elements in both genres. On the current album, commissioned for the Abou Dhabi festival, Yamani's focus is folk ...

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Lisan Al Tarab

By Tarek Yamani

Label: Edict Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Hibbi Zurni; Ah Ya Zein; Lamma Bada Yatathanna; Fi Hulal Al Afrah; Zarani Al Mahboub; Lahn Al Shayalin; New Dabke; Beirut Zahra Fi Gheir Awanha; Chemali Wali.

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Tarek Yamani: Lisan Al Tarab

Read "Lisan Al Tarab" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
August 14, 2014

Pianist Tarek Yamani's second release Lisãn Al Tarab is a sublime and innovative exploration of the common ground between Jazz and Arabic musical heritage. The title loosely translates as “Language of the Music" although there is no equivalent word to tarab in English. Tarab is the unique concept of music fused with its ecstatic, emotional impact, ...

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Ashur

By Tarek Yamani

Label: Edict Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Passegiatta; 26-2; Sama’I Yamani; East of the Sun; Giant Trane; Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime; Ashur; Dexterity; Dabke in Eb Nakriz; Prelude No. II in C Minor.

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Tarek Yamani Trio: Ashur

by Jerry D'Souza
October 20, 2012

Accolades often disappear in the mists of time but Tarek Yamani who won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composer's Award 2010, for “Sama'i Yamani," stamps his credentials in no uncertain terms on Ashur. Born in Lebanon, he is a self-taught pianist who found his groove in several styles including hip-hop, Afro-Cuban and flamenco music. He began ...