Anouar Brahem Quartet

From his unique playing style and his remarkable compositional skills, it seems as if Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem Anouar Brahem reinvented the ud, the Arabian lute. Anouar Brahem’s innovative approach merges traditional Arabian and modern music. Brahem has worked with musicians from all corners of the world and surrounded himself this time with clarinettist Klaus Gesing, bass-player Björn Meyer and Khaled Yassine on darbouka and bendir. Their last album, "The Astounding Eyes of Rita", pays homage to Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.

"Brahem is the Oud’s conjurer, a master at bringing out the acoustic magic this age-old traditional Oriental lute carries in its calabash, all the musical heritage of the Arab and Islamic worlds. Brahem is a phenomenon, a concentrated mix of prolific paradoxes: a supremely subversive classicist; a solitary soloist resolutely open to the world; a «culture smuggler» ever inclined to adventure beyond his own limits [...] " (Stéphane Olivier)

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