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Mark Gross' Riddle of the Sphinx Christos Tsiamoulis + +Khalil Keradouman |
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| concerts/festivals - Finkel and Arabian Waltz - Yazdjian in Bavaria - Turkish ûd in 'Dutch' concert music - Arabo-Andalusian Carmen - Yair Dalal between chairs december 2001 CD may/june
2001 CD march/april 2001
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Marko
Jouste
is the first ûd-player from Suomi (Finland) to
enter this site. Finland not only has his own tango tradition. Surprisingly
enough there are also orchestras like Mewlana specialized in Ottoman art music
and belly dance. Marko Jouste plays with vocalist Annukka
Hirvasvuopio, Mikko Vanhanen on ney,
clarinet and keyboard and Karo Sampela on
percussion in the group VILDDAS,
founded about 5 years ago. Vilddas is a Tampere based ensemble that blends the
sound of northern winds and tundras’ sounds with that of olive groves and
deserts of the south. Their first album is self-named and was released on the
Finish WOOD-label.
Mikko Vanhanen and Karo Sampela
are also members of the well known Finnish Balkan group
Slobo
Horo from Tampere (Slobo Horo played the
Roskilde Rockfestival in 1994). After a reunion in 1999 Slobo Horo has released
it’s 3rd cd Divane on Rockadillo. Bassplayer Ben Allison, a young versatile jazz musician, is a name to keep in mind. He is honest, open-minded, adventurous and has the gift to create something new from the past. He plays with traditionalist Wynton Marsalis just as with life long improviser Lee Konitz, with Knitting Factory people going wild or with an ethnic jazzgroep like Armenian folk-based Night Ark (with ûd-player Ara Dinkyian and percussionist Arto Tuncboyacian). With his own group Medicine Wheel he produces a wonderful transparent sound, which is compact and open at the same time. This and other amazing groups emerged from the still young Jazz Composers Collective. On his album, Third Eye, Ara Dinkyian is featured on ûd and gümbüs. His most recent album Riding The Nuclear Tiger issued by Palmetto Records is even worthwhile. t Rap with bagpipes, reggae with Arabian lute, brass, musette, african drums, samples, street noise of Marseille and a lot of improvised, everyday singing in a lively audio film full of lively sound pictures and surprising transitions, that is Massilia Sound System (Adam 2001). Within a big group of musicians Marc Bellity playing laût. Check out the ûd-reggae Méfi !
Not only another new
band which shows how to combine the Gnawa and Nuba of Maghreb music with break
beats, drum n’bass, jazz, musette and the speed rhythm of Macedonian brass
bands. Under the direction of lead vocalist Abdel Waheb Sefsaf and with a
striking line-up of accordeon, tuba and ud this band links
future and past and pushes the borders. Tuba player Laurent Guitton
matches perfectly with ûd-player Alaoua Idir and accordeonist Jean-Luc
Frappa. They follow the pace set by Michel Godard and Rabih Abou-Khalil.
Together with two mighty percussionists, Stephane Prost and Tony Marcos they
create depths and great dynamics. Recorded in Toulouse by Georges Baux, mixed by
the renowned duo René Ameline/Pedja Babic in the Ferber Studio in Paris and
released by Francis Dreyfus on his label Dreyfus
discs. Dezoriental will give acte du presence at this year North Sea
Festival in The Hague on Saturday, 14th of july.
Armenian Navy band
released it's second album (description soon) Nubas played by the Ibn Báya Ensemble (named after Andalusi philosopher musician Avempace (1070-1138)). With Omar Metioui (ûd, viola), Eduardo Paniagua (flutes), Luis Delgado (lute, perc) and El Arabi Serghini Mohammed (viola, vocal). Pneuma 2000. Hussein el-Masry on ûd, Abdel Shams-El Din (perc), Narendra Batujuc (sitar), Hanif Khan (perc). Institute du Monde Arabe (IMA)
played on ûd by Mohammed al-Harithi – The Hour of Solomon. Intensive, rough, percussive. Ancient world shining through. Institute du Monde Arabe (IMA)
The Strawberry-album of Rabih Abou-Khalil is out: The Cactus of Knowledge. It is a 12tet with indispensable percussionist Nabil Khaiat from Syria, a new American drummer, Jarrod Cagwin, and a new clarinet player from Italy, Gabriele Mirabassi. In the brass section we find Eddie Allen (tp), Dave Ballou (tr), Tom Varner (french horn), Dave Bargeron (tuba), Michel Godard (tuba), Antonio Hart (as), Ellery Eskelin (ts). top A new album of Vincent Courtois will be out in April (Enja). top Tarik Banzi
has just finished a solo ûd album. Moroccon musician Banzi is artistic director
of the multinational group Al-Andalus, residing in California. The album will be
released in summer 2001. top Tunesian ûd player / vocalist Dhafer Youssef has recorded a new CD Electric Sufi with Mino Cinelu, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Will Calhoun, Deepak Ram et al. top Armenian duduk-player number 1, Djivan Gasparyan, has recorded together with Turkish guitar-player Erkan Ogur for the renowned Turkish Kalan label. Ogur is well known for his work on fretless guitar. top
Percussionist/ud-player Burhan
Öçal has often
collaborated with jazzmusicians. This time he joined forces with
bassguitar-player Jamaaladeen
Tacuma. They
recorded Groove Alla Turca for Birdology
with a mixed jazz-turkish music line-up also featuring Natasha
Atlas. There are
the jazz musicians Jack
Walrath (tp), Ben
Schacter (sax), Rick
Lannacone (g) and
the Istanbul
Oriental Ensemble:
Yasar Sütoglu
(cl), Fedih
Tekyaygil (violin),
Muzaffer Coskun
(ûd), Alaattin
Coskuner (kanoun),
Ekrem Bagi
(darbuka). See also the excellent recent release Caravanserai of the
Istanbul Oriental Ensemble on Network.
top
Vous connaissez le club Basraf ? Three Japanese women
playing classical Arabian music from Tunesia and Egypt on ney, riqq, ûd and
violin, that is something else ! They call themselves Le Club Basraf,
Jun Chiki Chikuma (ney,
riqq),
Yoshiko Matsuda (ud)
and Hiromi Nishidai
(violin), scholar of famous Egyptian violin Player Abou Dagir. Their cd Classical
Music of Tunisia and Egypt
is released by Pastorale
Records. top SimSim ... they
called their debut album. FisFüz, a young German group travelling along the old
Ottomanian empire but also to the Caucasus and to Nubia. FisFüz that is Murat
Coskun (percussion,
vocal), Annette
Maye (clarinet),
Karim Othman-Hassan (ûd)
and Wolfgang Maye (double
bass). They draw from the rich Mediterranean and Middle east heritage and
deliver mature and new old music, swinging from deep within. It is released
on Peregrina
Music, a
label which also hosts the two Brazilians Rosana & Zelia. top We are still waiting for the first vocal project of composer/ûd-player Rabi Abou-Khalil. Meanwhile singer Jenny Evans who feels a direct affinty to his music adopted one of his pieces, wrote lyrics and and called the song Still She Dances. She recorded it for her new cd Gonna Go Fishin'. top
Kamal Berrada is the young ûd-player of the Judeo-Arab ensemble Naguila. This ensemble with the hazan of the Montellier synagogue, André Taïeb, as singer and Mohamed Zeftari on violin, is led by Pierre-Luc Soussan. Their newest cd Hallel (L’empreinte digitale) presents sephardic chants for Pesach and other religious feasts. top
On La Mar Enfortuna bass player/singer Oren Bloedow and singer Jennifer Charles, explore Sefardic songs and some Askenazy pieces too. Bloedow and Charles, both members of the rock group Elysian Fields, are accompanied by musicians like Steven Bernstein, Dany Blume, Ben Perowsky, Jamie Saft, Jane Scarpantoni, Kenny Wollesen, to name some of them. Their music is a place where progressive rock, jazz, latin and treasures from Sefardic heritage meet. In each piece a delicate blend of heterogeneous elements is created without loosing ground or becoming shrill or complicated. For instance ethereal moods go with dragging rhythms, Velvet Underground monotony or flashy strings. That gives the music a miraculous dry lightness and evokes an otherworld serenity. top
Smadj - the world´s only ud-player making drum n´bass Two ûd-players play a role on the album New Deal : Jean Pierre Smadja aka Smadj himself and Mehdi Haddab. The ûd turns up as part of electronic soundscapes in which the pieces of Smadj are embedded. Smadj is versatile in playing a variety of acoustic instruments like ud, cumbus, guitar, sanza, mandolin, guimbri, bass and in programming. This album, featuring - amongst others – Nedim Nalbantoglu (v), Arach Khalatbari (perc), Pascale Teillet (b, guimbri), Maxime Zampieri (dr) and Sofi Hellborg (sax), is not just another soundscape colored by some exotic ingredients. It is a real journey into new territory. The listener is invited to travel - with his or her old suitcase. If you take your time you also will arrive at the hidden Wadi, the hidden track on this album. top
Ûd meets funk and blues Ûd meets funk .. Colors, third album of Israelian bass player Avishai Cohen, is an exceptional rich orchestrated album with fine, mature arrangements and passionate playing of a band of 14 young musicians. Amos Hoffman plays ûd on Shay Ke and Balkan. Jazz and ingredients from different worlds fit together perfectly and evoke a powerful flow of energy. top
Not new, but ... ! Everybody who grew up in the 60ties will recognize the tune Kashmere immediately. Kashmere is a strong piece suitable for putting in elements from other sources. At the crossroads of Welsh folkmusic, hard- rock and Arabian music: the 1994 live version (on the cd NO QUARTER (Atlantic)) by pioneering Led Zeppelin -members Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, recorded on Jamaa el Fna, Marrakesh’s central square, with Egyptian and Moroccon musicians (Abdel Salam Kheir on ûd) and the London Metropolitan orchestra. This is something else: no idle speed but rolling thunders telling stories. top Made in Medina by
Rachid Taha is a heavy rock and funk
affair nourished by the vibes of Paris, New Orleans, Algier and Tanger. What
sounds as Arabian lute on the tracks of this cd is a mando-lute played by
Hakim Hamadouche.
This recording has more rock than his predecessor, the Arabian punk album
diwân.
top Shacharut
the newest album of Israeli violin- and ûd-player Yair
Dalal was recorded in a Bedouin tent in the
desert and released on the Magda-label.
The recording reflects the breathing of this special site and the CONCERTS
CONCERTS CONCERTS CONCERTS CONCERTS Yazdjian in Bavaria Yazdjian in Bavaria In the fall of 2001 Armenian ud-player Haig Yazdjian from Syria/Greece will perform with Bulgarian kavala-player Theodossii Spassov and American frame drummer/percussionist Glen Velez. They will appear at the Elmau festival in Bavaria, Germany. top
Later this year there will be a follow-up (The Ottomanian Lute) in a series of performances by 3 ûd-players: Mehmet Yesilcay who will perform with renown ensemble Sarband 4th of october on the Ysbreker stage (the classical trace), Selahattin Erköse who will give a concert there with the Erköse Ensemble on 13th of december (the Gypsy trace)and finally on 7th of march 2002 Armenian ûd-player Boyaciyan with his ensemble (the minority trace). top
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