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Anouar BrahemLe Voyage De Sahar

Label:

ECM Records – ECM 1915, ECM Records – 987 4651

Format:

CD, Album

Country:

Germany

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Genre:

Jazz

Style:

Contemporary Jazz

Tracklist

1Sur Le Fleuve6:33
2Le Voyage De Sahar6:55
3L'Aube5:48
4Vague / E La Nave Va6:19
5Les Jardins De Ziryab4:34
6Nuba3:12
7La Chambre5:01
8Córdoba5:30
9Halfaouine2:06
10La Chambre, Var.3:47
11Zarabanda4:26
12Été Andalous7:05
13Vague, Var.2:18
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  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ECM Records GmbH
  • Copyright ©ECM Records GmbH
  • Recorded AtAuditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano
  • Mixed AtArtesuono Recording Studio
  • Made ByEDC, Germany – 51666771

Credits

  • AccordionJean-Louis Matinier
  • Composed ByAnouar Brahem
  • DesignSascha Kleis
  • EngineerStefano Amerio
  • Engineer [Assistant]Lara Persia
  • OudAnouar Brahem
  • Photography By [Cover Photo]Thomas Wunsch
  • Photography By [Liner Photos (Interior)]CF Wesenberg*
  • Photography By [Liner Photos]Luca D'Agostino
  • PianoFrançois Couturier
  • ProducerManfred Eicher

Notes

Recorded February 2005
Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano
Mixed at Artesuono Studio, Udine

An ECM Production
In collaboration with
RSI Rete Due, Lugano

℗ 2006 ECM Records GmbH
© 2006 ECM Records GmbH

Made in Germany / Printed in Germany
Jewel Box O-Card Slipcase

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode (text): 6 02498 74651 6
  • Barcode (string): 602498746516
  • Mastering SID Code: IFPI LV26
  • Mould SID Code: IFPI 0127
  • Matrix / Runout: 06024 987 465-1 01 * 51666771
  • Matrix / Runout: Made in Germany by EDC
  • Matrix / Runout: [4x Universal logo]
  • Rights Society: GEMA
  • Label Code: LC 02516
  • SPARS Code: DDD

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Le Voyage De Sahar (CD, Album)ECM Records, ECM RecordsECM 1915, B0006159-02US2006

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  • zritelle's avatar
    zritelle
    Review by Thom Jurek
    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 François 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.

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