Friday 14 October 2011
DHAFER YOUSSEF
(TUNESIË)
Dhafer Youssef ud/zang, Kristjan Randalu piano, Chris Jennings bas, Mark Guiliana drums
Dhafer Youssef’s Arabic voice instantly grips audiences.The singer and lute player works with progressive European musicians but keeps close ties with Sufism, the mystic side of Islam that he grew up with. His group Abu Nawas Rhapsody has an acoustic line-up and its combination of piano and oud sounds as miraculous as his earlier experiments with electronica. ‘His voice is unusually flexible and reaches from East to West’ (Volkskrant).