''Le Voyage de Sahar'' is an album by

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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 February 2005 and released on ECM April the following year.ECM discography
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Reception

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review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Brahem has given listeners another of his wondrous offerings, full of deceptively simple compositions that open into a secret world, one where beauty is so present that it is nearly unapproachable, and it is up to the listener to fill in the spaces offered them by this remarkable trio."Jurek, T
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Track listing

Personnel

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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 ...

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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 ...

Jean-Louis Matinier Jean-Louis Matinier (born 1963 in Nevers, France) is a leading contemporary accordion player in the fields of jazz and world music. Life and work Matinier studied classical music, then turned to jazz and other forms of improvised music. From 198 ...

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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 ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Voyage de Sahar 2006 albums ECM Records albums Anouar Brahem albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher