Anouar Brahem
Astrakan Cafe [ ECM Records / CD - released 18/Sep/2000 ] Tunisian oud virtuoso Anouar Brahem counts as one of ECM's most important 'discoveries' of the last decade. After his highly successful trans-cultural recording 'Thimar', he returns to a more purely Middle Eastern music on 'Astrakan Café', with the... |
Anouar Brahem
Blue Maqams (2LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Recorded in New York's Avatar Studios in May 2017 and produced by Manfred Eicher, Blue Maqams brings Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem together with three brilliant improvisers. For Anouar Brahem and Dave Holland the album marks a reunion: they first... |
Anouar Brahem
Barzakh [ ECM / CD - released 13/Jan/2018 ] Recorded in 1990, Barzakh was the ECM debut of Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem, and an album that immediately captured the attention of press and public with its gracefulness and authority. "Phenomenal…this is pure Arab music, without 'world music'... |
Anouar Brahem
Barzakh (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 13/Jan/2018 ] Recorded in 1990, Barzakh was the ECM debut of Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem, and an album that immediately captured the attention of press and public with its gracefulness and authority. "Phenomenal…this is pure Arab music, without 'world music'... |
Anouar Brahem
Blue Maqams [ ECM / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Recorded in New York's Avatar Studios in May 2017 and produced by Manfred Eicher, Blue Maqams brings Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem together with three brilliant improvisers. For Anouar Brahem and Dave Holland the album marks a reunion: they first... |
Anouar Brahem
Conte de l'incroyable amour [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Part of the 'Touchstones' series of specially-priced and newly packaged albums from ECM's back catalogue. All featuring the original artwork and brand new packaging - double cardboard sleeves reminiscent of the original LPs. Tunisian oud master... |
Anouar Brahem
Khomsa [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Khomsa is an old Tunisian female name meaning "the five fingers of the hand", symbolic of good luck in the Tunisian bedouin tradition. It is also the name of the heroine in Nouri Bouzid's film Bezness - the music for which was composed by Anouar... |
Anouar Brahem
Le Pas Du Chat Noir (LP) [ ECM Records / 2 LP - released 7/Jun/2019 ] The Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem has chosen to work in a trio setting this time out, accompanied by Francois Couturier on piano and Jean-Louis Matinier on accordion. Brahem states in the liner notes that these pieces were actually composed on... |
Anouar Brahem
Souvenance - Music for oud, quartet and string orchestra [ ECM / 2 CD - released 23/Jan/2015 ] The music of Souvenance, by turns graceful, hypnotic, and taut and starkly dramatic, was recorded in 2014 - six years after oud-master Anouar Brahem's last ECM album, The Astounding Eyes of Rita. "It took a long time to write this music," he... |
Anouar Brahem
The Astounding Eyes of Rita [ ECM Records / CD - released 28/Sep/2009 ] Personnel - Anouar Brahem: oud; Klaus Gesing: bass clarinet; Björn Meyer: bass; Khaled Yassine: darbouka, bendir. |
Anouar Brahem
Le Pas Du Chat Noir [ ECM Records / CD - released 27/Aug/2002 ] |
Anouar Brahem
Le Voyage De Sahar [ ECM Records / CD - released 17/May/2006 ] Featuring persuasive, emotionally powerful new compositions by Brahem, and also incorporating new approaches to a selection of his most frequently performed works. |
Anouar Brahem / John Surman / Dave Holland
Thimar [ ECM Records / CD - released 18/May/1998 ] Recorded March 1997. |