Jon Balke - Siwan

Год|Year: 2009
Жанр| Genre: Ethnic, Jazz, Neoclassical, Crossstyles, Sufi
Страна| Country: Norway
Качество| Quality: APE/320 kbps
Размер| Size: 307/154 Mb

Track List

01. Tuchia
02. Ya Andalucin
03. Jadwa
04. Ya Safwa Ti
05. Ondas Do Mar De Vigo
06. Itimad
07. A La Dina
08. Zahori
09. Ayshyin Raquin
10. Thulathyath
11. Toda Sciencia Trancendiendo

Siwan is a breathtaking new musical project initiated by Jon Balke, with Amina Alaoui, Kheir Eddine M'Kachiche and Jon Hassell fronting a large ensemble that includes a group of early music players. The listener is at first struck by the power of Alaoui's voice, soaring above Jon Balke's remarkable compositions for baroque ensemble. The soloists are drawn from jazz, scattered improvisational traditions, and the world of early music. Together they perform new music inspired by Arab-Andalusian traditions, a great melting together of styles, forms and ideas.Creative, strongly melodic, song-based music in which west meets east at many levels. Will appeal to followers of ECM's transcultural directions and `world music' as well as jazz listeners and early music enthusiasts.Powerful song texts with words from St John of the Cross, Lope De Vega, Mansur Hallaj and other mystics — variously sung in Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese