Khomsa

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Release Date: 29th Apr 2022
Catalogue No: 4541162
Label: ECM
Length: 75 minutes

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Galliano: Comme Un Départ

Work length3:34

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Anouar Brahem (oud), Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano), François Couturier (synthesizer), Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone), Selmi Bechir (violin), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Anouar Brahem: L'Infini Jour

Work length7:32

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Anouar Brahem (oud), Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano), François Couturier (synthesizer), Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone), Selmi Bechir (violin), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Anouar Brahem, Richard Galliano, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen: Souffle Un Vent De Sable

Work length10:05

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Anouar Brahem (oud), Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano), François Couturier (synthesizer), Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone), Selmi Bechir (violin), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Anouar Brahem: Regard De Mouette

Work length1:54

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Anouar Brahem (oud), Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano), François Couturier (synthesizer), Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone), Selmi Bechir (violin), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Anouar Brahem: Sur L'Infini Bleu

Work length5:51

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Anouar Brahem (oud), Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano), François Couturier (synthesizer), Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone), Selmi Bechir (violin), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Anouar Brahem: Claquent les voiles

Work length2:05

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Anouar Brahem (oud), Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano), François Couturier (synthesizer), Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone), Selmi Bechir (violin), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Anouar Brahem: Vague

Work length2:34

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Anouar Brahem (oud), Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano), François Couturier (synthesizer), Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone), Selmi Bechir (violin), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Anouar Brahem: E la nave va

Work length4:39

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Anouar Brahem (oud), Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano), François Couturier (synthesizer), Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone), Selmi Bechir (violin), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Anouar Brahem: Ain Ghazel

Work length7:31

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Anouar Brahem (oud), Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano), François Couturier (synthesizer), Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone), Selmi Bechir (violin), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Anouar Brahem: Khomsa

Work length6:57

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Anouar Brahem (oud), Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano), François Couturier (synthesizer), Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone), Selmi Bechir (violin), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Anouar Brahem: Seule

Work length3:35

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Anouar Brahem (oud), Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano), François Couturier (synthesizer), Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone), Selmi Bechir (violin), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Anouar Brahem: Nouvelle Vague

Work length2:33

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Anouar Brahem (oud), Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano), François Couturier (synthesizer), Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone), Selmi Bechir (violin), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Anouar Brahem: En Robe D'Olivier

Work length2:40

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Anouar Brahem (oud), Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano), François Couturier (synthesizer), Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone), Selmi Bechir (violin), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Richard Galliano, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen: Des Rayons Et Des Ombres

Work length8:27

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Anouar Brahem (oud), Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano), François Couturier (synthesizer), Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone), Selmi Bechir (violin), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Anouar Brahem: Un Sentier D'Alliance

Work length2:36

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Anouar Brahem (oud), Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano), François Couturier (synthesizer), Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone), Selmi Bechir (violin), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

Anouar Brahem: Comme une absence

Work length3:14

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Anouar Brahem (oud), Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano), François Couturier (synthesizer), Jean-Marc Larché (soprano saxophone), Selmi Bechir (violin), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums)
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: Rainbow Studio, Oslo

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Reissue of Anouar Brahems 1995 album Khomsa featuring Richard Galliano, Jean Marc Larch and Bechir Selmi, alongside ECM mainstays Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen.

Brahem is recognised as a masterly interpreter of the Tunisian and pan-Islamic music traditions and as an exceptional improviser, able to build on those traditions. Inside his home country, however, Anouar also has a long history of working with film and theatre, and Khomsa revisits and quite freely reworks material he had written over the preceding decade for these contexts. These pieces, he notes, have remained within me as the image of a collection of sensations quick to vibrate. They emphasize Brahems compositional skills as much as his soloistic abilities.

The musicians brought together on Khomsa - the albums dramaturgy calls for continually shifting permutations of the personnel - include three players Brahem has often worked with over the years (Selmi, Couturier and Larch) and three whom he encountered here for the first time (Galliano, Danielsson and Christensen).

Brahem continues to reveal new aspects of his oud playing on Khomsa. If Claquent les voiles, a duet with Danielsson, intensifies the Andalusian strain hinted at on the Barzakh album, En robe dolivier suggests West African colours, the oud taking on some of the bright, percussive quality of the kalimba. In these pieces, as on his subtle, extended solo on Linfini jour, Brahem - who is often praised for his virtuosity - shows his ability to transcend mere technique to get to the essence, the heart, of the music.

Anouar Brahem: oud

Richard Galliano: accordion

Franois Couturier: piano, synthesizer

Jean Marc Larch: soprano saxophone

Bechir Selmi: violin

Palle Danielsson: double-bass

Jon Christensen: drums

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