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Alcantara-Amina Alaoui
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With a haunting, pure, sensual voice, Amina Alaoui provides a portrait of cosmopolitan, tolerant Al-Andalus or Sefarad, Moorish Spain, a fabled era and place when religious and ethnic communities shared romantic culture, philosophy, medicine, poetry, and, here, music. The flow and exchange of European folk, Arabic, Berber, and Jewish musical modes and tunes and rhythms were common. This album features songs in Arabic, French, Spanish, and Hebrew (with lyrics provided respectively in those languages). In a chambered setting, she is accompanied by two musicians: Henri Agnel, who plays medieval guitar, cittern lute, and rebec along with frame drums, and Brijan Chemirani, performing on zarb, daf, and tambourine drums. The sound is mainly gentle with only occasional more lively, dancelike tracks. The arrangements are simple. Half way into the album, a mild tedium of sound and timbre sets in. While the minimalism is probably reflective of the era, 62 minutes is a long time for this particular musical meditation. Aside this minor complaint, the album is beautiful and educationally worthy. The title, Alcantara, is metaphoric, meaning bridge and derived from the Arabic, Al-Qantarah. Musicians are without borders and music itself is the message. Liner notes are in English and French. (Amazon Review)
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