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	Anouar Brahem - musicolog.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Anouar Brahem was born in 1957 in Halfaouine in the Medina of Tunis.
		An oud player like Anouar Brahem, who has explored the most secret depths of sound and pondered long and lovingly on the legacy of the artistic music of the Arab world, and of the Islamic world in general, is thus a witness to cultural transformations as complex as they are profound.
		Brahem's first meeting with Erköse, a Turkish clarinettist of gypsy origins, took place in 1985 on the occasion of a project entitled Rencontre 85, which had an enormous impact on the Tunisian scene and which was the first of a series of creations that consecrated Brahem as his country's most original and promising artist.
	www.musicolog.com /brahem_about3.asp (3120 words)

	Anouar Brahem / Le pas du chat noir / cdRoots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hypnotic, magnetic new album by Anouar Brahem which adds a new dimension to our knowledge of this exceptional Tunisian musician.
		Brahem's writing for this combination is highly evocative, meticulously controlled and sparse.
		Half of the magic, as he notes, resides in the not-played, in the marvellous mingling of overtones, sounds that rise from the piano to blend with the warm tones of the oud and the breath of the accordion's bellows.
	www.cdroots.com /ecm-1792.html (245 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Le Pas Du Chat Noir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Brahem states that all the music here "emerged from the keys of a piano," which perhaps doesn't sound very unusual, except for the fact that over his career (and this CD is no different) he has pretty much limited his on-recording play to the oud.
		Anouar Brahem is an artist of incredible vision and talent - each one of his releases is a sonic and cultural delight, taking the listener on a journey filled with wonder and beauty.
		Brahem is a master not only at composition and performing, but, in his arrangements, and in the very choosing of his accompanying musicians, shows a brilliance that is breathtaking.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006EXHT/ref=nosim/circustuffc0b-20?dev-t=D2Y5TUCCVJ7DGE (1250 words)

	E.J.N. - ANOUAR BRAHEM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Anouar Brahem was born on October 2Oth, 1957 in Halfaouine, the heart of the old city of Tunis.
		Encouraged by his father, Brahem began at the age of ten his initiation to music and the oud (Arab tute) and continued his studies at the National Conservatory of Music in Tunis.
		Anouar Brahem has composed the musical sound-tracks for a number of theatre productions, ballets and films, induding "Sabots en Or" and "Bezness" by Nouri Bouzid, "Halfaouine" by Férid Boughedir and "Les Silences du Palais" by Mounida Tlatli.
	www.ejn.it /mus/brahem.htm (429 words)

	Anouar Brahem Le pas du chat noir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem has chosen to work in a trio setting this time out, accompanied by Francois Couturier on piano and Jean-Louis Matinier on accordion.
		Brahem states in the liner notes that these pieces were actually composed on the piano, emerging while he was taking a much-needed short break from his primary instrument.
		Brahem is still in his favorite space, exploring the power of implication, and the other players are in synch with his vision.
	www.hallmusic.com /store/music_B00006EXHT_Anouar-Brahem-Le-pas-du-chat-noir.html (316 words)

	Anouar Brahem - netlexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Anouar Brahem (Oud), Barbaros Erköse (Klarinette), Kudsi Erguner (Nai), Lassad Hosni (Bendir, Darbouka).
		Anouar Brahem (Oud), Richard Gálliano (Akkordeon), François Couturier (Piano, Synthesizer), Jean Marc Larché (Sopran-Saxophon), Béchir Selmi (Violine), Palle Danielsson (Kontrabass), Jon Christensen (Schlagzeug).
		Anouar Brahem (Oud), Barbaros Erköse (Klarinette), Lassad Hosni (Bendir, Darbouka).
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Anouar-Brahem.html (155 words)

	NPR : Anouar Brahem and the Art of the Oud
		In Anouar Brahem's home country of Tunisia, the oud in current popular culture has been known mainly in the context of loud and large ensembles, where the instrument is all but buried in a dervish of sound.
		Anouar Brahem's music is on ECM Records, whose catalog is famous for its crystal-clear production and contemplative sound.
		Brahem says the influences he's accumulated come at least as much from outside music as from inside it.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=845031 (455 words)

	Anouar Brahem biography : albums : icebergradio.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The British daily newspaper, "The Guardian", that Brahem was "at the forefront of jazz because he is far beyond it".
		Brahem's second album, "Conte De L'incroyable Amour", released in 1992, was recorded with clarinet player Barbaros Erkose.
		Brahem's fourth album, "Khomas", released in 1995, featured improvised interpretations of his compositions for Tunisian film and theater productions and was recorded with accordion player Richard Galliano and violinist Bechir Selmi.
	www.icebergradio.com /artist/3225/the_who.html (480 words)

	Anouar Brahem : Astrakan Cafe [Music CD] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For Brahem there is no attempt to synthesize the globe, or even the sounds of the East with those of the West.
		He is content in his knowledge that sound is infinite, and that his tradition, as it evolves and expands into a deeper pan-African/trans-Asian whole, is more than large enough for a master musician to rummage through in one lifetime.
		With Barbaros Erköse on clarinet and the Indian and Turkish percussion stylings of the professor of somber precision, Lassad Hosni, Brahem's oud enters into a dialogue, musically, that has never before existed (though he has collaborated with both players previously).
	store.discerningreader.com /anbrascamcd.html (333 words)

	Anouar Brahem, joueur de oud et compositeur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Il n'aura fallu à Anouar Brahem qu'une petite dizaine d'années et une poignée de disques aussi novateurs qu'intemporels, pour s'imposer comme l'un des musiciens les plus atypiques et talentueux du prestigieux label ECM.
		Anouar Brahem naît à Halfaouine, dans la Médina de Tunis, le 20 octobre 1957.
		Anouar Brahem affirme déjà une personnalité multiple en se donnant comme mission de restaurer le oud en tant qu'instrument soliste, emblématique de la musique arabe, tout en rompant avec la tradition dans son travail de composition intégrant des éléments de jazz ainsi que d'autres traditions musicales orientales et méditerranéennes.
	www.anouarbrahem.com (286 words)

	ANOUAR BRAHEM - Conte De L'Incroyable Amour \| Buy cheap Music with low price on CD
		Anouar Brahem pulls the strings of his oud and your heart at the same time.
		Anouar Brahem is a Tunisian who is one of the leading present exponents of the oud, a lute-like stringed instrument.
		Brahem's music is anything but 'exponent'-sounding, however--he makes regular excursions into the world of jazz and crossover (a project of some years back with Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek was wonderful), along with recording pieces with a more traditional sound.
	music.surpriced.com /B0000263TN.html (371 words)

	Anouar Brahem \|\|\| Mondomix * musiques du monde * world music
		Anouar Brahem was born in 1957 in Halfaouine, part of the medina of Tunis.
		In 1985 Anouar Brahem went to Carthage where he brought together Turkish gypsy, Tunisian and French jazz musicians to play his instrumental piece entitled “Liqua 85” for which he won the Tunisian Grand Prize of Music.
		With the coming of the third millennium, Anouar Brahem likes to say that he has reached the end of his career’s second cycle.
	www.mondomix.com /en/portraits.php?artist_id=18&reportage_id=18 (747 words)

	Anouar Brahem Trio: Astrakan Café - PopMatters Music Review
		Tunisian Anouar Brahem is one of the modern giants of the 'ud, the Arabian lute.
		Brahem's penchant for other musical influences is also very much true to the Arab tradition, which historically has been very cosmopolitan, as befits a region that sits at the crossroads of the world's major historical civilizations.
		Anouar Brahem's trio manages to combine very diverse influences, extraordinary musicianship, and subtle improvisational interplay to create a work of exquisite artistry and craftsmanship.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/b/anouarbrahemtrio-astrakan.shtml (555 words)

	Anouar Brahem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		His musical surroudings are basically and widely dominated by popular songs in which lute has only a side instrument place.
		Thus, Anouar Brahem's name is tightly attached to instrumental music more than popular songs: from the beginning, he considers that lute is a quite important instrument within arabian music, and he wants to give lute his nobel place within the musical context.
		On January 1995, he is invited for an inaugural conert of the quite new Cité de la Musique in Paris.
	www.tunisiancommunity.org /music_site/anouar_brahem.htm (466 words)

	Anouar Brahem "Thimar" by Srajan Ebaen
		nouar Brahem's 1998 release Thimar, with John Surman on sax and bass clarinet and Dave Holland on double-bass, is the kind of masterpiece that trips flags in alternate media coverage but tends to elude the mainstream.
		It's exotic but not flashy, it's impossible to categorize - and thus a hard sell on the retail floor --, and precedents that would hint at what to expect are few.
		Thimar places it within a readily accessible context of double-bass lines that, though not Jazz per se, create a comfortable semblance, and the ready familiarity with the saxophone's or bass clarinet's reedy timbre make for further connections to a Western audience.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /magazine/globalcaravan/1201/brahem.htm (453 words)

	Brahem, Anouar Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		ECM Records - Brahem, Anouar - Artist page at his primary record label, ECM.
		Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Brahem, Anouar Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them.
		Brahem, Anouar Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
	www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Instruments_Stringed_Oud_Oudists_Brahem,_Anouar.html (1747 words)

	Mahjoob.Com Forums - Anouar Brahem
		Born at Halfouine in the Tunis Medina on October 20th 1957, Anouar began playing the Oud at the Tunis National Music Conservatory and continued his training with the maestro Ali Sriti.
		Indeed, Sriti took him under his wing and initiated Anouar to the Arabian art music, the Maqam, and to the art of improvisation, the Taqsim.
		By now Anouar was already confirming his double vocation: to re-establish the Oud as a solo instrument, the very symbol of Arabian music, while breaking with conventional tradition in his compositions by integrating elements of Jazz as well as other Mediterranean and Oriental musical traditions.
	www.mahjoob.com /en/forums/showthread.php?t=106971 (315 words)

	Anouar Brahem \| Le Pas Du Chat Noir
		The outstanding clarity of Anouar Brahem's new trio record demonstrates the composer's ability to combine several cultural influences without sounding contrived or disjointed.
		For this project, Brahem composed 12 pieces for the most unusual combination of piano, accordion, and oud (a type of lute).
		Brahem has thrown a most unusual cocktail of musical elements into his blender in order to create this chamber music.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /reviews/r0902_079.htm (469 words)

	Savvy Traveler - Eric Clapton Of The Oud: Anouar Brahem (10/4/2002)
		The oud is a centuries-old Arabic instrument, a precursor to the guitar, and there are critics who say Anouar Brahem is to the oud what Eric Clapton is to the electric guitar.
		Since Anouar is Tunisian, he grew up with many different influences that have come to that country because of its location.
		Anouar is a traveler, and his music is well-traveled as well.
	www.savtrav.com /show/features/2002/20021004/interview2.shtml (247 words)

	Anouar Brahem Barzakh
		Anouar Brahem and his Oud continue to make wonderfully emotive music of great depth.
		Let me state from the beginning that anything you're fortunate to find by Anouar Brahem is going to be excellent.
		All of the compositions here - based on Traditional Arabic music forms - are by Brahem, except for 'Barzakh' (composed by Brahem and Selmi); and 'Souga' and 'Bou Naouara' (composed by Hosni).
	www.walhello.info /anouar+brahem+barzakh.html (445 words)

	Anouar Brahem Trio - Nihawend Lunga - Last.fm
		Anouar Brahem Trio - Nihawend Lunga - Last.fm
		Of all 360 people that have listened to songs by Anouar Brahem Trio, this represents 14.7%.
		We don't have an image for Anouar Brahem Trio yet.
	www.audioscrobbler.com /music/Anouar+Brahem+Trio/_/Nihawend+Lunga (76 words)

	Jazzitalia - Io C'ero: Anouar Brahem "Le pas du chat noir" - Roma
		Anouar Brahem è sicuramente un artista originale, la sua musica sta stretta in ogni tentativo di classificazione per stili e generi.
		I tre musicisti sembra gareggino ad ammaliare il pubblico con armonie dalla bellezza quasi imbarazzante, con un senso della melodia che potrebbe apparire stucchevole all'orecchio indurito dell'ascoltatore del nostro tempo, eppure il pubblico romano si lascia volentieri cullare dall'inaudita indolenza delle sonorità del trio.
		Questo dolce senso di spaesamento non manca nemmeno a chi conosce già il cd: pur esponendo in modo nitido il tema melodico di ogni brano, Brahem, Couturier e Matinier non disdegnano affatto l'improvvisazione di nuove soluzioni armoniche negli assoli, senza tuttavia che mai svanisca l'atmosfera di fondo del progetto.
	www.jazzitalia.net /iocero/anouarbrahem_roma.asp (662 words)

	Anouar Brahem -- Le Pas du Chat Noir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Anouar Brahem, oud; Francois Couturier, pianist; Jean-Louis Matinier, accordion.
		A few minutes into the session, it becomes apparent that modal frameworks, unison lines, rhythmic cycles, and out-of-tempo cadenzas are central to Brahem's art.
		Couturier, undoubtedly a highly trained classical pianist, is a bit too literal in his accompaniment of Brahem, who is a strong, pulse-oriented soloist.
	www.jazznow.com /1202ns/NSAnBr.html (180 words)

	nmz 98-06 - Jazz / Pop: Oud-Virtuose Anouar Brahem zwischen der Musik des Orients und des Okzidents
		Anouar Brahem gilt heute wie weiland Ziryab als Rebell unter den Lautenschlägern und wurde ebenso wie dieser von einem der angesehensten zeitgenössischen Bewahrer der oralen Tradition Arabiens unterrichtet.
		Denn Anouar Brahem ist ein hartnäckiger, aber auch kluger Künstler, dem auf seinem Marsch durch die Peripherien immer wieder der Vorwurf begegnet, sein unkonventionelles Aufgreifen fremder Musikformen sei eine besonders subtile Form von Mode.
		Brahem gibt inzwischen sogar wieder vereinzelt klassische Konzerte, weil in Tunesien kaum jemand mehr die alte Musik seiner Großväter und -mütter kennt.
	www.nmz.de /nmz/nmz1998/nmz06/jazz-pop/oud.shtml (816 words)

	Anouar Brahem Trio "Astrakan Café" by Srajan Ebaen
		Anouar Brahem Trio "Astrakan Café" by Srajan Ebaen
		With Barbaros Erköse on clarinet and Lassad Hosni on bendir and darbouka, Tunisian oud player Anouar Brahem's latest release transports us into such a milieu with minimalist tone poems that whisper of foreign locales, the steppes of Azerbaijan perhaps, a bar in Ashkabad, or a Gipsy gathering around some Karakoum ruins.
		Much melodizing occurs in parallel, between the warm, vibrato-rich timbre of the clarinet's lower registers and the venerable Middle-Eastern lute that Brahem here plays with a - for the instrument -- atypically lyrical touch.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /magazine/globalcaravan/0202/brahem.htm (583 words)

	Anouar Brahem \| Le Pas du Chat Noir
		Anouar Brahem knows perfectly the formula to condense in the air the fragrance of incense, the visual impression of an orange-colored sky over the adobe terraces in Tunis, and a sea of reminiscences shaken up by his melodies.
		His music seems to be languid, but its lassitude takes you in, absorbs you, and softly converts any emotion that could seem instantaneous and banal unless the notes of his oud didn't float in the air.
		On his seventh album recorded for ECM, Anouar blendes the sounds of Khomsa (ECM, 1995) and Thimar (ECM, 1998)—in which he experimented the approach between the traditional Arabian and Islamic music and jazz—with the maturity of the sound and the personal style reached in his last work, Astrakan Café (ECM, 2000).
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=15982 (309 words)

	6moons.com - world music: Anouar Brahem "Le Pas du Chat noir"
		Tunisian oud player Anouar Brahem is no stranger to devotees of the ECM label's output.
		The seemingly French compositional connection, enhanced by the presence of the accordion, is perhaps not entirely surprising when considering that Brahem attended not only the National Conservatory of Music by studying for close to a decade under oudist Ali Sitri, but later spent six years in Paris before returning to Tunis in 1987.
		And so, while all of Brahem's work is of a very high caliber -- simply, he has yet to produce anything that wasn't at least solidly good -- The Black Cat's Footsteps is transcendental, shifted into an even higher octave to allow the transference of something from truly Elsewhere to pour forth.
	www.6moons.com /worldmusic/lepas.html (644 words)

	Music reviews: Anouar Brahem; Dropkick Murphys; Aaron Tippin
		But Tunisian master Brahem has always taken the instrument into uncharted territory while never leaving the spiritual realm of the Middle East.
		Teaming with the melodic and minimalist pianist Francis Couturier and the accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier, Brahem has made an album of understated and harmonically sophisticated beauty that suggests Ravel's moodier moments and even Brahms' lullabies.
		It should be noted that Brahem detests the so-called world music category and its generic limitations, but "La pas" is world music in the best sense, in that it eliminates all borders.
	www.freep.com /entertainment/music/revus15_20020915.htm (828 words)

	Anouar Brahem - Conte de L'incoryable amour - Last.fm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Anouar Brahem - Conte de L'incoryable amour - Last.fm
		Of all 1,967 people that have listened to songs by Anouar Brahem, this represents 7.5%.
		We don't have an image for Anouar Brahem yet.
	www.last.fm /music/Anouar+Brahem/_/Conte+de+L%27incoryable+amour (86 words)

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