Nhaoul' - Live at Au Fil des Voix Festival.

Format:

Video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East.

Palestinians.

French.

Local Subjects:

Middle East.

Palestinians.

French.

Genre:

Performance

Physical Description:

1 online resource (57 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 2013.

Language Note:

In Arabic.

In French.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

From the very start, the songs played on stage are punctuated with a poem read by Kamilya Jubran. The tone is set: with texts and the Arab oral tradition playing a central role. The singer and oud player initially engages in a dialogue with the double bass player Sarah Murcia, before a trio of violin, viola and cello joins them. Since 1998, when they first met during the concert tour with the Palestinian group Sabreen, whose lead singer was Kamilya Jubran, the two musicians have developed a shared language. Sarah Murcia masters the modal intonations intrinsic to Arab music and, together with Kamilya Jubran, unfolds long phrasings that increase in intensity, capturing rhythms and mesmerizing the audience. Written by the contemporary Moroccan poet Hassan Najmi, "Kam" (For so many times) relates an endless migration, while the Bedouin poems from the deserts of the Sinai and Negev are tales of war and misery. Nhaoul means "loom": an intersection of musical threads that draw a delicate complicity and enable both rhythmic and melodic freedom. Marion Paoli

Notes:

Performed Studio Sequenza

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