Khomsa

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Cat No: 4541162

Release Date: 29 April 2022

Label: ECM

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 602445411627

Genres: Jazz World Music

Description
Reissue of Anouar Brahemâ€™s 1995 album â€˜Khomsaâ€™ featuring Richard Galliano, Jean Marc LarchÃ© 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 â€˜Khomsaâ€™ revisits and quite freely reworks material he had written over the preceding decade for these contexts. â€œThese piecesâ€�, he notes, â€œhave remained within me as the image of a collection of sensations quick to vibrate.â€� They emphasize Brahemâ€™s compositional skills as much as his soloistic abilities.
The musicians brought together on Khomsa - the albumâ€™s dramaturgy calls for continually shifting permutations of the personnel - include three players Brahem has often worked with over the years (Selmi, Couturier and LarchÃ©) 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 â€œClaquent les voilesâ€�, a duet with Danielsson, intensifies the Andalusian strain hinted at on the Barzakh album, â€œEn robe dâ€™olivierâ€� 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 â€œLâ€™infini jourâ€�, Brahem - who is often praised for his virtuosity - shows his ability to transcend mere â€œtechniqueâ€� to get to the essence, the heart, of the music.
Anouar Brahem: oud
Richard Galliano: accordion
FranÃ§ois Couturier: piano, synthesizer
Jean Marc LarchÃ©: soprano saxophone
Bechir Selmi: violin
Palle Danielsson: double-bass
Jon Christensen: drums
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