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Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico
Based on traditional material - mainly from the Mediterranean Area - Savina Yannatou and the group Primavera en Salonico offer an open sound without borders or labels, from simple songs extending to contemporary music forms. Insisting on acoustic instruments, half of which have their origin in the East, they attempt at exploiting their specific sound, oftentimes also exploring them to the limits of their possibilities. Beyond her exquisite interpretive capacity Savina Yannatou gives special emphasis…
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Aziza Mustafa-Zadeh
Daughter of Vagif Mustafa-Zadeh, pianist who developed a fusion between jazz and traditional music of Azerbaijan at the beginning of the 60's, singer and pianist: Aziza Mustafa Zadeh was born in 1969 and, soon, began studies as a classical pianist at the Baku Conservatory, his hometown. His early passion for jazz on the one hand, and the desire to reinterpret traditional music and songs from their land, became the startup for one of the…
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Rim Banna
“...a voice that is at once disconcertingly youthfull and anything but childish...” (The Daily Telegraph). Folk, jazz and rock, backgrounds for words of Mahmoud Darwish, Zuhaira Sebbagh, and other contemporary Palestinian poets, singing about the hopes, fears and feelings of a suffering people. Received with enthusiasm by the Arab world and the international comunity, Rim Banna performances present a post-modern music, connecting traditional Arab song with the most contemporary sounds. The Palestinian singer, lyricist…
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Rabih Abou Khalil
One of Lebanon's international artists, born and raised in the cosmopolitan Beirut of the 60's and 70's, Rabih learned to play the oud (the king instrument of Arab music ) at the tender age of 4 years. The Lebanese civil war, forced him to leave his country in 1978 to study classical flute in Munich in Munich Academy of Music with Walter Theurer. Studies of classical Western music allowed him to combine the theory…
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Al Andaluz Project
The realization of that special idea is the history of the encounter of two music formations. Michael Popp, musical director of the group Estampie, well-known in the medieval music-scene for their innovation and quality, has never ceased to criticize publicly insubstantial academical parading of supposedly authentic performance or medieval ballyhoo and commerce. After one Estampie concert a visitor presented Michael with a recording and said: "This will probably find favour in your critical ears...". It…
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La Musgaña
La Musgaña offers us a view of all the instrumental music from the Castilian meseta exploring the essence of Castile’s rich tradition and developing the aesthetic possibilities of a cultural heritage with so much racial mix. Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic have all left their mark on the centre of the Iberian peninsula, and any reference to their art or music finds its reflection in our own Castilian culture, enabling us…
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Trio Joubran
Samir Joubran was born in Nazareth (Israel), son of a renowned oud luthier and a singer. He began playing the oud at the age of 5 years and at 9 began his studies at the Music Institute of Nazareth. Also graduated from Mohamed Abdul Wahab Conservatory in Cairo. According to himself, his music is inspired by the legacy and the Palestinian dream of a peaceful Palestinian state. Hi is one of the most talented Arab…
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Avenida Brasil
The love for Brazilian music, 80's pop music and "French Chanson" has been Mario Maeso's "leit motiv". Uruguayan by chance, Brazilian by heart and French by immigration, Mario composes songs like he talks: like a torrent. From Paris, where he lived for 20 years, Mario ended up in Barcelona for unknown reasons from the heart. Mario’s stage brother Rodrigo Galvaô, Brazilian from "Salvador de Bahía", is an outstanding singer and also a sublime saxophonist who…
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Kamilya Jubran
Kamilya Jubran was born in Akka in the State of Israel, to Palestinian parents who are from a northern Palestinian village in Al-Jaleel. Elias Jubran, Kamilya’s father, an authentic instrument maker and a music teacher; was her first source of classical Arabic musical education. In Jerusalem and for twenty years, Kamilya was Sabreen’s lead song performer, and player of Oud, Qanoon, and other oriental instruments. Sabreen.From 1982 to 2002, Kamilya along with Sabreen represented…
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Plastic Septet
Listen to a snippet of Horror Vacui from Plastic Septet, and you’ll soon realise there’s nothing artificial about this music. Neither the choice of instruments nor the relationship to music as medium of feeling and messages permits such an association. What we do sense is the extent to which the seven musicians strive for plasticity in their musical expression. The name refers to an earlier formation, Plastic Ohara (the forerunner of the Septet), which…
