Tag Archives: Dhafer Youssef

Without doubt the main qawwal is Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party — “Party” is a universal term for the qawwali ensemble but can be found in Sikhism also to describe some classical music ensembles, for instance, shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan & Party. Dubbed Shahen-Shah-e-Qawwali (the Brightest Celebrity in Qawwali), …

Vocalist, composer, and oud participant Dhafer Youssef was created in 1967 in Teboulba, Tunisia. The oud can be an Arabic lute, a string device that can accomplish a lovely sound from those that learn how to expert it. Youssef started performing when he was just five-years-old. Since that time he …

Tigran Hamasyan was Armenian by descent — he was created in 1987 in Gyumri, Armenia — but had jazz in his spirit. Although he was initially moved as a kid by the rock and roll noises from the giants from the ’60s and ’70s — Deep Crimson, Led Zeppelin, the …

Creator of a forward thinking fusion of Indian bhangra music and drum’n’bass electronica, Talvin Singh was classically trained in the tabla but rejected the majority of his learning when he founded the Anokha membership night in East London’s Blue Be aware. Singh was raised in Leytonstone, and even though he …

The North Indian drums know because the tabla were thought to have already been invented within the 13th century by Amir Khusrau, a disciple from the Sufi saint Hazrat Nizemuddin Aluya. At that time, Khusrau sawed a pakhawaj (an individual two-headed solid wood drum) in two. Though nobody may never …

Ethics can be an international folk-jazz outfit founded in Paris this year 2010 by Algerian bassist/composer/arranger Michel Benita. Its regular membership contains Matthieu Michel on flügelhorn, guitarist Eivind Aarset, Mieko Miyazaki on koto, and drummer Philippe Garcia. Benita created the group as an experimental gamble, to find out if he …