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Type
Cd (musik)
Format
1 cd, 1 kommentarbilag
Genre
folkemusikverdensmusik - world music
Klassemærke
78.78214
Bidragsydere
Indhold
HorizonBombs turn into rosesHi-jazzToutaQueen of the nightSyrian dreamsThe seven gates of DamascusBreakthroughThe sea
Forlag
Harmonia Mundi Musique
Målgruppe
voksenmaterialer
Anmeldelser
The guardian, 2017-11-22
"Born in Damascus, Maya Youssef is a virtuoso performer on the qanun, the traditional Middle Eastern plucked zither. She moved to London under the Arts Council's "exceptional talent" scheme, and has played at the Proms and alongside Damon Albarn. Here she demonstrates the range and power of her 78-stringed instrument on a "personal journey through the six years of war in Syria" ... Her music may be based on the scales and modes of the traditional Arabic maqam, but there are echoes of everything from jazz to flamenco here, and the backing is equally inventive, with thoughtful cello work from Barney Morse-Brown matched against incisive oud and hand percussion"
The guardian, 2017-11-22
fRoots, 2018 Jan/Feb
"Maya Youssef plays Syria's trapezoid-shaped zither called qanun. It is found across the wider region and comes with widespread organological variations and variant spellings ... A series of life-shaping events led to her taking up this instrument more ususally associated with male musicians ... Youssef deploys traditional art and folk music elements here. Notable among these are maqams or a traditional Arabic family of modes akin to raga in the South Asian subcontinent. "Hi-Jazz", for example, is based on maqam "Hijaz" while ""The Sea" is based on an unnamed folk song from the Syrian coast. The ten-minute suite "The Seven Gates of Damascus" figuratively towers over this breathtaking slice of originality. It is the track demanding a return to re-examine and luxuriate in it"