Anouar Brahem - Voyage De Sahar
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Artist: Anouar BrahemEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-04-04
Music Label: Ecm Records
Soundtracks:
- Sur le fleuve
- Le Voyage de Sahar
- L'Aube
- Vague / E la nave va
- Les jardins de Ziryab
- Nuba
- La chambre
- Cordoba
- Halfaouine
- La chambre var.
- Zarabanda
- Eté andalous
- Vague var.
Music reviews of Voyage De Sahar
Music Review: It simply is
Rating: 5 Stars
It would be best to think of Brahem as an artist on a jazz label, rather than as a jazz musician; as a worldly musician, rather than one who plays world music. Along the way, he transformed the traditional melodies and styles of his native country into an improvisational music that worked well when played in a jazz context. Brahem invented his own style.
Brahem works here with the two other members of his trio from 2002's Le Pas du Chat Noir, the beautiful and critically lauded album that brought him into greater public consciousness. Jean-Louis Matinier plays accordion and François Couturier is on piano, while Brahem leads the trio on his oud, an eleven-stringed Arabic cousin of the European lute. Matinier's playing, unsurprisingly, most often echoes the sounds of either France or Argentina, although the versatility of his technique is astounding, and there are times when you'll swear you're hearing a woodwind instead of the air moving through the bellows of his accordion. Couturier, likewise, molds his piano playing to the mood and feel of each particular track. "Halfaouine" is pensively Chopin-like, for instance, while his left-hand comping on the title track sets up a low, meditative hum for the song's spare and softly stuttering rhythmic vamps. When he later cuts into a sharp and clear procession of notes, this sort-of solo lifts the track to beautiful new heights. But it is Matinier who steals the show on the Spanish-tinged "Zarabanda", with accordion playing that is more mellifluous and crystalline than I had imagined could possibly come from that instrument. Despite Anouar Brahem's name appearing alone on the CD cover, this album is clearly a collaborative effort. Of course, the leader does take the lead on many occasions, as in the opening to "Eté Andalous" and the first half of "Córdoba". In each case, Brahem subtly weaves his solos in and around his sidemen's support, fiding some Arabic tones at times, but mostly following his restless bliss.
Le Voyage de Sahar is an assured and subtle work. While less melodically adventurous than Chat Noir, Sahar is Brahem's most mature release. The sound remains spacious, but appropriately warm for an album meant to evoke the desert of Northern Africa and which, instead, evokes no one place, no one genre, and no one time. A gorgeous album, Le Voyage de Sahar simply is.
FJB/O!-music 2006
Description of Voyage De Sahar
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Recreating the ambience that made his 2002 outing, Pas de Chat Noir, so evanescent yet indelibly memorable, Tunisian oud master Brahem continues his by-now-well-established collaboration with François Couturier (piano) and Jean-Louis Matinier (accordion.) The trio's improvisations are miracles of weightless precision; while sounding like nobody else, they also evoke chanting medieval monks, Keith Jarrett's florid keyboard sagas, Parisian bal musette, the long-vanished Moorish kingdom of Granada via 20th-century Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, languid recollections of French impressionist Eric Satie plus dissonant gleanings from Astor Piazzolla's sardonic Argentinean neo-tangos. Despite this complex array of intellectual influences, which permeate the trio's constructions like smoke rings, their works come across as disarmingly simple and unpretentious, a tidily diffuse combination of Arabic modes, European classical disciplines and jazzy intuition. Liberated by sheer inventiveness, the trio's technical skill is so extreme that it has long since ceased to draw attention to itself. Instrumentalists of this caliber are long past needing to impress anyone but themselves. --Christina Roden
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