Release Date: 29 April 2022
Label: Ecm Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602445411627
Genres: Jazz  World Music  
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 Brahem’s 1995 album ‘Khomsa’ featuring Richard Galliano, Jean Marc Larché 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 ‘Khomsa’ revisits and quite freely reworks material he had written over the preceding decade for these contexts. “These pieces”, he notes, “have remained within me as the image of a collection of sensations quick to vibrate.” They emphasize Brahem’s compositional skills as much as his soloistic abilities.
The musicians brought together on Khomsa - the album’s dramaturgy calls for continually shifting permutations of the personnel - include three players Brahem has often worked with over the years (Selmi, Couturier and Larché) 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 “Claquent les voiles”, a duet with Danielsson, intensifies the Andalusian strain hinted at on the Barzakh album, “En robe d’olivier” 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 “L’infini jour”, Brahem - who is often praised for his virtuosity - shows his ability to transcend mere “technique” to get to the essence, the heart, of the music.
Anouar Brahem: oud
Richard Galliano: accordion
François Couturier: piano, synthesizer
Jean Marc Larché: soprano saxophone
Bechir Selmi: violin
Palle Danielsson: double-bass
Jon Christensen: drums
Tracklisting
John Surman
Marcin Wasilewski Trio & Joe Lovano
Sebastian Rochford
Elina Duni, Rob Luft, Fred Thomas & Matthieu Michel
Keith Jarrett
Mette Henriette
Keith Jarrett
Jakob Bro, Arve Henriksen & Jorge Rossy
Anouar Brahem
Anouar Brahem
Anouar Brahem, John Surman & Dave Holland
Anouar Brahem
Anouar Brahem
Anouar Brahem
Anouar Brahem