''Khomsa'' is an album by Tunisian oud player

Anouar Brahem Anouar Brahem ( أنور براهم); born on 20 October 1957) is a Tunisian oud player and composer. He is widely acclaimed as an innovator in his field. Performing primarily for a jazz audience, he combines Arabic classical music, folk music and ...

recorded in 1994 and released on the ECM label.ECM discography
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Reception

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review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 3 stars calling it "a beautiful contemporary statement reflecting the cinematic forms Brahem loves, mixed with European classical and improvisational sensibilities, professionally rendered, and well within the tradition of world jazz and the clean ECM concept"Nastos, M. G
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Anouar Brahem except as indicated'' # "Comme un Depart" (Richard Gálliano) - 3:32 # "L 'Infini Jour" - 7:31 # "Souffle un Vent Sable" (Anouar Brahem, Jon Christensen, Palle Danielsson, Richard Gálliano) - 10:07 # "Regard de Mouette" - 1:55 # "Sur l'Infini Bleu" - 5:53 # "Claquent les Voiles" - 2:09 # "Vague" - 2:37 # "E la Nave Va" - 4:41 # "Ain Ghazel" - 7:32 # "Khomsa" - 7:01 # "Seule" - 3:39 # "Nouvelle Vague" - 2:38 # "En Robe d'Olivier" - 2:41 # "Des Rayons et des Ombres" (Christensen, Danielsson, Gálliano) - 8:31 # "Un Sentier d'Alliance" - 2:41 # "Comme une Absence" - 3:12 :*Recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in September 1994

Personnel

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Richard Galliano Richard Galliano (born 12 December 1950, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French accordionist of Italian heritage. Allmusic biography/ref> Biography He was drawn to music at an early age, starting with the accordion at 4, influenced by his father ...

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

François Couturier François Couturier (born 2 May 1950 in Fleury-les-Aubrais, Orléans) is a French jazz pianist. Biography Couturier began learning piano at the age of six. A year after earning his degree in classical piano and musicology in 1977, he met Jac ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

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soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument invented in the 1840s. The soprano is the third-smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists (from smallest to largest) of the soprillo, sop ...

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violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

Palle Danielsson Nils Paul "Palle" Danielsson (born 15 October 1946) is a Swedish jazz double bassist born in Stockholm, Sweden. From 1974 to 1979, he was a member of Keith Jarrett's quartet. He is the brother of pianist Monica Dominique. Career Danielsson's ...

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

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drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

References

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