Track Listings (14) - Disc #1| All Artists: Anouar Brahem Title: Astrakan Cafe Members Wishing: 4 Total Copies: 0 Label: ECM Records Original Release Date: 1/1/2001 Re-Release Date: 2/27/2001 Genres: Folk, International Music, Jazz, Pop Styles: Traditional Folk, Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Arabic, Turkey, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 601215949421 |
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 | Anouar Brahem Astrakan Cafe Genres: Folk, International Music, Jazz, Pop
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CD ReviewsMusical Magic Joyce L. Tompsett | San Francisco for now | 11/19/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "I just saw them play this set in Munich. The interaction of the oud, the clarinet and the drums is wonderful. The rhythms seem to pull at each other and then one instrumental voice rises to lead the others before floating back into tight harmony with the others. The album was recorded in a cathedral in Austria and captures some of the feeling of the live concert. It is emotional, haunting. It manages to be both jazzy and middle eastern at the same time without sacrificing anything for either identity. This is music to play on a late night, on a snowy day, or in a smoky cafe." Traditional music from a Master MathGuy | USA | 08/30/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "I own around 1200 CDs, and I consider myself an expert in international music. This one CD stands out among a very few in my collection. I am going to try to describe it, but I won't be able to do justice; I can't find the right words. This fully instrumental CD (no singing) takes you to a magical land and recreates centuries of middle eastern imagery in the mind of the listener. This is not a CD like "Simon Shaheen"'s modernistic approach to Middle Eastern music. This is "traditional Middle East" with perfect harmony and perfect performance. I have played this CD hundreds of times since I purchased it. And I still love it like the very first time." A taste of exotica C. H Smith | Bowling Green, Kentucky United States | 12/23/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "This still certainly rates as jazz, but just as much it gives the impression of a visit to... --well, uh, a cafe in Astrakan. Especially atmospheric is the clarinet play of sideman Barbaros Erkose, which produces just the right emphasis of exotica to complement Brahem's virtuostic oud play (is there a greater student of this instrument now recording?) and the unobtrusive backing percussion (bendir and darbouka). This is a tuneful but rather laid back kind of jazz, occasionally giving itself over to flashes of brilliant play. It sounds more than just a bit mysterious, but it is a naked mystery. Stripped of the kind of mood cliches one often hears in the soundtracks to bad films about Arabic lands, this music reveals some of the emotional secrecies that can be found at the heart of the cultures it strives to portray."
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