Khomsa

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Cat No: 4541162

Release Date: 29 April 2022

Label: ECM Records

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 602445411627

Genres: Jazz World Music

Description
Reissue of Anouar Brahemð �‹ 1995 album é£¬homsaï¿½ featuring Richard Galliano, Jean Marc Larchï¿½ and Bechir Selmi, alongside ECM mainstays Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen.

Brahem is recognised as a masterly interpreter of the Tunisian and pan-Islamic music traditions and as an exceptional improviser, able to build on those traditions. Inside his home country, however, Anouar also has a long history of working with film and theatre, and é£¬homsaï¿½ revisits and quite freely reworks material he had written over the preceding decade for these contexts. å�hese piecesï¿½, he notes, è˜”ave remained within me as the image of a collection of sensations quick to vibrate.ï¿½ They emphasize Brahemð �‹ compositional skills as much as his soloistic abilities.

The musicians brought together on Khomsa - the albumð �‹ dramaturgy calls for continually shifting permutations of the personnel - include three players Brahem has often worked with over the years (Selmi, Couturier and Larchï¿½) and three whom he encountered here for the first time (Galliano, Danielsson and Christensen).

Brahem continues to reveal new aspects of his oud playing on Khomsa. If é� laquent les voilesï¿½, a duet with Danielsson, intensifies the Andalusian strain hinted at on the Barzakh album, ð¡Œƒn robe dä¾Šlivierï¿½ suggests West African colours, the oud taking on some of the bright, percussive quality of the kalimba. In these pieces, as on his subtle, extended solo on å°žã ™nfini jourï¿½, Brahem - who is often praised for his virtuosity - shows his ability to transcend mere æ‡€echniqueï¿½ to get to the essence, the heart, of the music.

Anouar Brahem: oud

Richard Galliano: accordion

Franè”žis Couturier: piano, synthesizer

Jean Marc Larchï¿½: soprano saxophone

Bechir Selmi: violin

Palle Danielsson: double-bass

Jon Christensen: drums
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