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Anouar Brahem
Astrakan Café
$16.99
Anouar Brahem : oud
Barbaros Erköse : clarinet
Lassad Hosni : bendir, darbouka
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"Though the set is illustrious in its variety, connoting a post card swap at a Greater Mediterranean way station with travel tales from Azarbeidjan, Turkmenistan, Turkhestan, Tanzanie and other destinations, Astrakan Café captures an austere and even cumbrous beauty tinged with an inescapable Gypsy yearning. The talent players exhibit is of the first magnitude: immaculate tone, the touch of a poet, and a faculty for invention. The recording sessions at the Monastery of St. Gerold in Austria grant the music a widescreen aura. At once satisfyingly evocative of faraway places (minus the airfare) and soothingly, warmly human, this is a vision of the musical arts as gracious vacation and world citizen blues." - Steve Taylor, Hollow Ear "It's a fearsomely powerful album, unremitting in terms of its virtuosity and almost puritanical intensity of sound. All through their meanderings these three musicians rely solely on their instruments to recreate the required mood and sense of place. There are no vocals, samples or guest musicians to disturb their meditative focus. The music delineates the mournful beauty of a desert landscape from a myriad different angles. Brahem takes the torch from the late, great oud master Munir Bachir and makes sure that it continues to burn brightly and vividly." - Andy Morgan, Songlines |
The record label says:
Tunisian oud virtuoso Anouar Brahem counts as one of ECM's most important "discoveries" of the last decade. After his highly successful trans-cultural recording "Thimar", he returns to a more purely Middle Eastern music on "Astrakan Café", with the trio that has been his first priority for several years. The improvisational exchanges between Brahem, clarinettist Barbaros Erköse and percussionist Lassad Hosni are exceptionally fluid, and the atmospheres that they create by turns mysterious, hypnotic, dramatic...
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