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Jon Balke & Amina Alaoui - Siwan (2009)
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Jon Balke & Amina Alaoui - Siwan (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC, Image + CUE Sheet + LOG | 324 MB
MP3 CBR 320 kbps 44100 Stereo | 161 MB
ECM 2042 | Jazz | Complete Artwork
The voice of Amina Alaoui soars above Jon Balke's remarkable compositions for baroque ensemble, with soloists drawn from jazz, scattered improvisational traditions, and the world of early music. Behind this remarkable musical integration is a web of philosophical, historical, and literary interconnections, as Balke and Alaoui set texts from Sufi poets, Christian mystics, troubadours and more and – inspired by the tolerant and creative spirit of medieval Al-Andalus – ponder what was lost to the bonfires of the Inquisition. Setting new standards in transcultural music, Siwan shows what can be made today when artists of the most divergent background pool their energies.
The focus of Siwan is not one of strict musical scholarship, but rather the imagining of what music would have sounded like at a certain place and time lost to antiquity. That time and place is medieval Andalusia, the southern most region of Spain, where Muslim, Christian, and Jewish intellectual cultures mingled unmolested before the Spanish Inquisition.
For this ambitious project, Balke assembled an equally ambitious set of artists. Central to the recording are French-Moroccan singer Amina Alaoui and violinist Kheir Eddine M'Kachiche. These two musicians are the Eastern herbs that give Siwan its most potent Moorish notes. Next in the mix is the liquid mercury tone of trumpeter Jon Hassell, who approximates with brass what M'Kachiche achieves with gut strings. As necessary to this musical image as in Latin jazz is the percussion provided by Helge Norbakken. The wrapping of this musical gift is provided by the guidance of Balke and Bjarte Eike's Barokkosolistene, providing the Western element to this recording.
So much of the musical alchemy today is attempted and achieved with strokes too broad to be trusted or enjoyed. What Balke and his predecessors Garbarek and Potter achieve is a thoughtful rendering of imagination: what the historic music received from the past may have sounded like when the original artist tired of rote performance and began to improvise (a situation that certainly occurred). As a musical statement, Siwan stands as a monument to uncompromising ingenuity and art. This music is radioactively fine, searing with its beauty, inspiring in its sublimity.
Personnel
Amina Alaoui vocal
Jon Hassell trumpet, electronics
Kheir Eddine M Kachiche violin
Jon Balke keyboards, conductor
Helge Andreas Norbakken percussion
Pedram Khavar Zamini zarb
Tracklist
Tuchia
O Andalusin¡
Jadwa
Ya Safwati
Ondas do mar de Vigo
Itimad
A la dina dana
Zahori
Ashiyin Raïqin
Thulâthiyat
Toda Ciencia Trascendiendo
Recorded September 2007
and March 2008
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