Sarab is back with his second album Arwah Hurrawhich could be translated as 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 Baptist Ferrandis, Sarab, which means mirage in Arabic, is a musical edifice that combines rock, modern jazz and traditional Arabic music. The duo quickly transformed into a six-headed creature, where each became indispensable to musical creation. The six musicians of the group play with borders and genres.
Sarab is a Franco-Syrian Arab jazz rock group of six members. The group was formed in Paris in 2018. A musical mirage that navigates between several universes with the percussionist Wassim Hallalthe saz player Abdallah Abozekry, or even the committed author and science fiction writer Alain Damasio.
Titles played by Sarab, extracts from the album Arwah Hurrah (The Other Cast)
♦ Yally Shaghalt al Balthe one who occupies my thoughts, see the clip
♦ Nahna Haraq (“Stranger is a verb” feat. Alain Damasio)
♦ Zidni bi farte al Hubb.
Then the #Session Live receives Elina Duni for the release of the album Lost Ships (ECM)
Born in Tirana, Albania, in 1981, into a family of artists, Elina Duni goes on stage, for the first time, at the age of five and sings for the National Radio and Television as well as in various Festivals for Children.
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, Banz Oester, then Patrice Moret on bass and Norbert Pfammatter on drums, a return to musical sources that mixes Balkan folk songs with jazz.
After two albums baresha (2008) and Lume Lume (2010) on Meta Records, the quartet released in 2012 on ECM Matane Malit (Beyond the Mountain), and in 2015 Dallendyshe (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 Zeze (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. 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, was published on ECM.
Titles performed at the Grand studio
♦ Kur më del në derë, Live RFI
♦ Lost Ships, excerpt from the album Lost Ships, To see the clip
♦ Yesterday again, Live RFI.
Musicians
– Elina Duni, vocals
– Rob Luft, guitar.