Sarāb is back with his second album Arwāh Hurra, which could be translated by Free Souls. The album deepens a unique and committed style, between jazz, rock and Middle Eastern music.
Born from the meeting between the Franco-Syrian singer Climene Zarkan and the guitarist Baptiste Ferrandis, Sarāb, which means mirage in Arabic, is a musical edifice that combines rock, modern jazz and traditional Arab music. The duo quickly transformed into a creature with six heads, where each one became indispensable to musical creation. The six musicians of the group play with borders and genres.
Sarāb is a six-member Franco-Syrian Arab jazz rock group. The group was formed in Paris in 2018. A musical mirage that navigates between several universes with the percussionist as guests. Wassim Hallal, the saz player Abdallah Abozekry or the committed author and science fiction writer Alain Damasio.
Songs played by Sarab, extracts from the album Arwāh Hurra (The Other Distribution)
♦ Yally Shaghalt al Bal, Whoever occupies my thoughts see the clip
♦ Nahna Haraq (“Foreign is a verb” Feat. Alain Damasio)
♦ Zidni bi farte al Hubb
Then the #SessionLive receives Elina Duni for the release of the album Lost Ships (ECM)
Born in Tirana, Albania, in 1981, in a family of artists, Elina Duni went on stage for the first time at the age of five and sang for the National Radio and Television as well as in various Children’s Festivals.
In 1992, following the fall of the communist regime, she arrived in Switzerland and moved with her mother to Geneva where she studied classical piano and discovered jazz. She studied singing, composition and pedagogy at the Bern University of the Arts, jazz section. In 2005 she created the Elina Duni Quartet with Colin Vallon at the piano, Bänz Oester then Patrice Moret on bass and Norbert Pfammatter on drums, a return to musical origins which mixes Balkan folk songs with jazz.
After two albums “Baresha” (2008) and “Lume Lume” (2010) at Meta Records, the quartet published in 2012 at ECM “Matanë Malit” (Beyond the mountain), and in 2015 “Dallëndyshe” (Swallow). Albanian songs are found here full of lightness and rhythm and the European press gives them a very warm welcome.
In 2014, Elina Duni publishes in Kosovo and Albania his first solo album as a songwriter “Muza e Zezë” (The Black Muse). In 2017, she was one of the winners of the Swiss Music Prize and began a duet with the London guitarist Rob luft. The solo creation “To leave” where Elina accompanies herself on guitar, piano and percussion, was released as an album on ECM in April 2018. In November 2020 the album titled“Lost Ships” with Rob Luft, Fred Thomas and Matthieu Michel has been published on ECM.
Titles performed at the large studio
♦ Kur më del në derë, Live RFI
♦ Lost Ships, extract from the album Lost Ships see the clip
♦ Yesterday again, Live RFI
Musicians
Elina Duni, singing
Rob Luft, guitar