Dhafer Youssef Birds Requiem Quartet at Hawk's Well Theatre

A Tunisian Oud player, vocalist and composer, Dhafer Youssef comes from a long line of muezzins. For him mastering vocal performance is a heritage. Seduced by jazz and other genres like Indian music, combined with his Arab heritage and Mediterranean groove, Youssef creates a sound mixture that is truly exalting. His interest for his vocal undulations and the resonances of sounds, the jazz music in “Electric Sufi” was an opportunity for Dhafer Youssef to experiment new things with his voice and to use it as an instrument. Prepare for some unlikely encounters between Oud, modern jazz, and electronic music. Without forgetting the artistic identity that he forged through his experience and permanent search for sonorities, Dhafer Youssef carries on in transcending genres, offering to the public his latest creation “Birds requiem”. Constructed as movie music, this new album is a very personal album that has been prepared at a turning point of the artist life. As the artist puts it, “I was doing my own music, bringing alive the colours in my soul”....

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A Tunisian Oud player, vocalist and composer, Dhafer Youssef comes from a long line of muezzins. For him mastering vocal performance is a heritage. Seduced by jazz and other genres like Indian music, combined with his Arab heritage and Mediterranean groove, Youssef creates a sound mixture that is truly exalting. His interest for his vocal undulations and the resonances of sounds, the jazz music in “Electric Sufi” was an opportunity for Dhafer Youssef to experiment new things with his voice and to use it as an instrument. Prepare for some unlikely encounters between Oud, modern jazz, and electronic music. Without forgetting the artistic identity that he forged through his experience and permanent search for sonorities, Dhafer Youssef carries on in transcending genres, offering to the public his latest creation “Birds requiem”. Constructed as movie music, this new album is a very personal album that has been prepared at a turning point of the artist life. As the artist puts it, “I was doing my own music, bringing alive the colours in my soul”.

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