Event 33
Anouar Brahem Trio
– Cathedral
Anouar Brahem – oud
, François Couturier – piano
, Jean Louis Matinier – accordion.
Transporting and spectacularly beautiful concert from the great Oud’s conjurer round midnight.
This age-old traditional Oriental lute carries in its calabash all the musical heritage of the Arab and Islamic worlds. Brahem is a phenomenon, a concentrated mix of prolific paradoxes: a supremely subversive classicist; a solitary soloist resolutely open to the world; a culture smuggler ever inclined to adventure beyond his own limits, pushing back musical frontiers without ceding an inch of the aesthetical standards forged across time and tempered in a profound respect for tradition.
From the rich repertory of Jazz (John Surman, Dave Holland and Jan Garbarek are just some of the leading players to succumb to his melodic spells), to the multifarious traditions of Mediterranean and Oriental influence (from his native Tunisia to the confines of India and Iran), his sensitive yet rigorous music ceaselessly redefines a composite universe of poetry and culture, balancing discretion and sensuality, nostalgia and contemplation.
Transporting and spectacularly beautiful concert from the great Oud’s conjurer round midnight.
This age-old traditional Oriental lute carries in its calabash all the musical heritage of the Arab and Islamic worlds. Brahem is a phenomenon, a concentrated mix of prolific paradoxes: a supremely subversive classicist; a solitary soloist resolutely open to the world; a culture smuggler ever inclined to adventure beyond his own limits, pushing back musical frontiers without ceding an inch of the aesthetical standards forged across time and tempered in a profound respect for tradition.
From the rich repertory of Jazz (John Surman, Dave Holland and Jan Garbarek are just some of the leading players to succumb to his melodic spells), to the multifarious traditions of Mediterranean and Oriental influence (from his native Tunisia to the confines of India and Iran), his sensitive yet rigorous music ceaselessly redefines a composite universe of poetry and culture, balancing discretion and sensuality, nostalgia and contemplation.
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