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Siwan
Jon Balke, Amina Alaoui, Jon Hassell
Siwan
Genres: International Music, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Classical
 
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Siwan is a breathtaking new musical project initiated by Jon Balke, with Amina Alaoui, Kheir Eddine M'Kachiche and Jon Hassell fronting a large ensemble that includes a group of early music players. The listener is at firs...  more »

     

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All Artists: Jon Balke, Amina Alaoui, Jon Hassell
Title: Siwan
Members Wishing: 4
Total Copies: 0
Label: ECM Records
Release Date: 6/30/2009
Genres: International Music, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Classical
Style: Avant Garde & Free Jazz
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 602517801516

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Siwan is a breathtaking new musical project initiated by Jon Balke, with Amina Alaoui, Kheir Eddine M'Kachiche and Jon Hassell fronting a large ensemble that includes a group of early music players. The listener is at first struck by the power of Alaoui's voice, soaring above Jon Balke's remarkable compositions for baroque ensemble. The soloists are drawn from jazz, scattered improvisational traditions, and the world of early music. Together they perform new music inspired by Arab-Andalusian traditions, a great melting together of styles, forms and ideas.Creative, strongly melodic, song-based music in which west meets east at many levels. Will appeal to followers of ECM's transcultural directions and `world music' as well as jazz listeners and early music enthusiasts.Powerful song texts with words from St John of the Cross, Lope De Vega, Mansur Hallaj and other mystics - variously sung in Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese (CD booklet includes translations).

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