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Souvenance
Anouar Brahem
ECM
602537977765
ECM 144120
ECM 2423/24
JAZZ
2
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The music of Souvenance, by turns graceful, hypnotic, austere, and starkly dramatic, follows Tunisian oud-master AnouarBrahem’slast ECM album, The Astounding Eyes of Rita after a five-year gap. “It took a long time to write this music,” he acknowledges. Early plans to document the progress of the “Rita” quartet, which had grown to become a compellingly dynamic group in concert, were set aside. “I was feeling a need to attempt something new.” Then, at the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, came the great political upheavals –accompanied by “immense fears, joys and hopes” –which began in Tunisia and swept like wildfire through the region. Fully absorbed by daily news of popular uprisings, collapsing dictatorships, insurgencies and counter-insurgencies, Brahemfound his emotional world “monopolized by the political”. It was not the right moment to be writing music: “I had to wait for the pressure to fall, before I could resume work.”
Lugano, Italy, May 25-28, 2014
FORMAT | CD |
DISCS NUMBERS | 2 |
RECORDED | 0 |
LABEL CODE | ECM 2423/24 |
STYLE | JAZZ |