Anouar Brahem Quartet: Souvenance at April Jazz at The National Concert Hall

Over the course of nine innovative, timeless albums such as Le Pas Du Chat Noir and the Astounding Eyes of Rita, Anouar Brahem has established himself as one of the most original and talented musicians yet to record on the prestigious ECM label. He now brings us his new project, Souvenance.

Souvenance weaves previously-unheard lines between musical worlds that are highly different to create a universe of dreams: elegant poetic images and a hugely dilated sense of space, with borrowings from jazz, Western classical music and the meditative traditions of the East. Brahem is the oud’s conjuror, a master at bringing out the acoustic magic which this age-old traditional Oriental lute carries inside its calabash: the musical heritage of the Arab and Islamic worlds...

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Over the course of nine innovative, timeless albums such as Le Pas Du Chat Noir and the Astounding Eyes of Rita, Anouar Brahem has established himself as one of the most original and talented musicians yet to record on the prestigious ECM label. He now brings us his new project, Souvenance.

Souvenance weaves previously-unheard lines between musical worlds that are highly different to create a universe of dreams: elegant poetic images and a hugely dilated sense of space, with borrowings from jazz, Western classical music and the meditative traditions of the East. Brahem is the oud’s conjuror, a master at bringing out the acoustic magic which this age-old traditional Oriental lute carries inside its calabash: the musical heritage of the Arab and Islamic worlds

The concert is opened by acclaimed Irish saxophonist and innovator Sean Mac Erlaine performing one of his acclaimed solo sets.

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