Anouar Brahem
Le Voyage de Sahar
2006 ecm 1915
225 mp3 vbr
1. Sur le fleuve
2. Le Voyage de Sahar
3. L'Aube
4. Vague / E la nave va
5. Les jardins de Ziryab
6. Nuba
7. La chambre
8. Cordoba
9. Halfaouine
10. La chambre var.
11. Zarabanda
12. Eté andalous
13. Vague var.
Anouar Brahem
Le Pas Du Chat Noir
Original Release Date: 2002
Label: Ecm Records
256 ogg
1. Le Pas Du Chat Noir
2. De Tout Ton Coeur
3. Leila Au Pays Du Carrousel
4. Pique-nique A Nagpur
5. C'est Ailleurs
6. Toi Qui Sait
7. L'arbre Qui Voit
8. Un Point Bleu
9. Les Ailes Du Bourak
10. Rue Du Depart
11. Leila Au Pays Du Carrousel, Var.
12. Deja La Nuit
Anouar Brahem
Khomsa
Original Release Date: 1995
Label: Ecm Records
245 mp3 vbr v0
1. Comme un Depart
2. L'inifni Bleu
3. Souffle un Vent de Sable
4. Regard de Mouette
5. Sur l'Infini Bleu
6. Claquent les Voiles
7. Vague
8. E la Nave Va
9. Ain Ghazel
10. Khomsa Listen
11. Seule
12. Nouvelle Vague
13. En Robe d'Oliver
14. Des Rayons et des Ombres
15. Un sentier d'alliance
16. Comme une Absence
Biography
The role of the Arabic, lute-like, stringed instrument, the oud, has been revolutionalized through the playing of Anouar Brahem. While used in the past to accompany vocalists, the oud is used by Brahem as an imaginative solo instrument. In 1988, Tunisian newspaper, "Tunis-Hebdo", wrote, "If we had to elect the musician of the 80s, we would have, without the least hesitation, chosen Anouar Brahem". The British daily newspaper, "The Guardian", that Brahem was "at the forefront of jazz because he is far beyond it".
Encouraged by his music-loving father, Brahem began studying the oud, at the age of ten, when he enrolled at the National Conservatory of Music. For nearly a decade, he studied with influential oud player Ali Sitri. By the age of fifteen, he was playing well enough to perform regularly with local orchestras. Although he initially focused on Arabic music, Brahem increasingly incorporated elements of jazz. This was enhanced during the six years that he spent in Paris (1981 — 1987), performing at festivals and collaborating with choreographer Maurice Bejart on a production, "A Return To Carthage" that received the prestigous "National Award Of Excellence In Music".
Returning to Tunis in 1987, Brahem performed at the Carthage Festival in the multi-artist production, "Ligua 85". Shortly afterwards, Braham agreed to become director of the Ensemble Musical De In Ville De Tunis. During the two years that he oversaw the ensemble, Brahem divided the group into smaller of various sizes. Among the productions that he directed were "Leilatou Tayu" and "El Hizam El Dhahbi".
In 1990, Brahem resigned to focus on his own career. After touring in the United States and Canada, he met and was signed by Manfred Eicher, producer and founder of German record label, ECM. His debut album, "Barzakh", released in 1991, was recorded with Turkish musicians, Bechir Selmi and Lassad Hosni. In a review of the album, German music magazine, "Stereo", wrote, "(Brahem) is an exceptional musician and improviser". Brahem's second album, "Conte De L'incroyable Amour", released in 1992, was recorded with clarinet player Barbaros Erkose. In 1994, Brahem recorded "Madar", with Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and Pakistani tabla player Shaukat Hussain. Brahem's fourth album, "Khomas", released in 1995, featured improvised interpretations of his compositions for Tunisian film and theater productions and was recorded with accordion player Richard Galliano and violinist Bechir Selmi. With his fifth effort, "Thimar", released in 1998, Brahem collaborated with soprano saxophone and bass clarinet player Jo n Surman and double bass player Dave Holland. Astrakan Cafe was issued three years later.
Brahem has composed numerous pieces for such films and musical theater productions as "Sabots En Or", "Bezness", "Halfaouine", "Les Silences Du Palais", "Lachou Shakespeare", "Wannas El Kloub", El Amel", "Borj El Hammam" and "Bosten Jamalek". He collaborated with Maurice Bejart on the ballet, "Thalassa Mare Nostrum" and with Gabriel Yared on the Costa Gravas film, "Hanna K".
~ Craig Harris
Цитата:
Thimar
Release Date: Nov 10, 1998
Label: ECM
Time: 54:32
Thimar is a most impressive collaboration between Brahem, soprano saxophonist/bass clarinetist John Surman and double bassist Dave Holland which superbly fuses the traditions of jazz with those of Arab classical music, pushing the parameters of both while succumbing to the clichйs of neither.
~ Raymond McKinney
Цитата:
Le Voyage de Sahar
Release Date: Apr 4, 2006
Label: ECM
Over the past 15 years, Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem has assembled a relatively small but profound body of work. A skilled improviser who refuses to be part of the historical authenticity argument, Brahem works from the same trio setting that performed on Le Pas du Chat Noir in 2002, with pianist Franзois Couturier and accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier. The dialogue between these players is, despite the sparseness of the music and the considerable space employed, intense. The deep listening necessary in the improvised sections allows for a natural flow of ideas to emerge from silence. The compositions themselves are skeletal, with repeating, slowly evolving vamps and lyric lines. They offer, on the surface, a contemplative approach, and indeed can be heard that way. However, when dynamics, timbre, and chromatics are listened for, what takes place is rather astonishing. Each player walks to the middle of a composition, steps back and reenters after ideas by the others are introduced, producing a kind of organic improvisation seldom heard. This is not to say that the most structured works here, such as "Vague/E la Nave Va," aren't full of meditative delight as well. They are, and there are vast spaces into which the listener can enter and disappear for a while — not so much to drift and dream as to be absorbed in their hypnotic and repetitive beauty. "Les Jardins de Ziryab" begins with Matinier's accordion, which is answered by the oud and Brahem's voice, accompanying them both. It unfolds from the center out. "Le Chambre, Var." begins, for this ensemble, at a trot. Couturier's chord voicing and Brahem's percussive approach create a winding musical narrative that Matinier's accordion underscores rhythmically. The keyboard and air pulse create a terrain where intricate melodic lines come out of modal and chromatic tensions. Ultimately, Brahem has given listeners another of his wondrous offerings, full of deceptively simple compositions that open into a secret world, one where beauty is so present that it is nearly unapproachable, and it is up to the listener to fill in the spaces offered them by this remarkable trio.
~ Thom Jurek
Tracklist:
01 Sur le Fleuve 6:33
02 Le Voyage de Sahar 6:55
03 L 'Aube 5:48
04 Vague/E la Nave Va 6:19
05 Les Jardins de Ziryab 4:34
06 Nuba 3:12
07 La Chambre 5:01
08 Cуrdoba 5:30
09 Halfaouine 2:06
10 La Chambre, Var. 3:47
11 Zarabanda 4:26
12 Йtй Andalous 7:05
13 Vague, Var. 2:18
Anouar Brahem
Vague
Original Release Date: October 7, 2003
Label: Ecm Records
320 mp3 cbr
1. Ronda
2. Parfum De Gitane
3. Houdouth
4. Le Chien Sur Les Genoux De La Devineresse
5. Sebika
6. Leila Au Pays Du Caroussel, Variation
7. Diversion
8. Comme Une Absence
9. Nihawend Lunga
10. Claquent Les Voiles
11. E La Nave Va
12. Vague
13. Bou Naouara
14. Mazad
15. Hulmu Rabia
16. Astrakan Cafe (2)
17. La Nuit Des Yeux
Anouar Brahem
Conte de l'incroyable amour
Original Release Date: May 18, 1992
Label: Ecm Records
320 mp3 cbr
1. Etincelles
2. Le Chien Sur Les Genoux De La Devineresse
3. L'oiseau De Bois
4. Lumiere Du Silence
5. Conte De L'incroyable Amour
6. Peshrev Hidjaz Homayoun
7. Diversion
8. Nayzak
9. Battements
10. En Souvenir D'iram
11. Iram Retrouvee
12. Epilogue
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