Anouar Brahem
Le pas du chat noir
Anouar Brahem oud
François Couturier piano
Jean Louis Matinier accordion
Le pas du chat noir
De tout ton cœur
Leila au pays du carrousel
Pique-nique à Nagpur
C'est ailleurs
Toi qui sait
L'arbre qui voit
Un point bleu
Les ailes du Bourak
Rue du départ
Leila au pays du carrousel, var.
Déjà la nuit
Recorded July 2001
ECM 1792
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Hypnotic, magnetic new album by Anouar Brahem which adds a new dimension
to our knowledge of this exceptional Tunisian musician.
"Le pas du chat noir" gives the clearest indication yet of
the work of Brahem as composer and features a spacious
"chamber music" that resonates with the freshness of
improvisation. The instrumentation is unique: oud,
piano, accordion. Brahem's writing for this combination
is highly evocative, meticulously controlled and sparse.
Half of the magic, as he notes, resides in the
not-played, in the marvellous mingling of overtones,
sounds that rise from the piano to blend with the
warm tones of the oud and the breath of the accordion's bellows.
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