Yacine Boularès, Vincent Segal, Nasheet Waits - Abu Sadiya (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

"Dar Shems" or "the house of the sun" and the opening to the account of a wandering, a profile disappeared: Abu Sadiya. You listen to the breath of Yacine Boulares, saxophonist and Franco-Tunisian clarinettist installed in New York who invites beside him the American drummer Nasheet Waits and the French cellist Vincent Segal. Trio training quite rare for a project almost narrative.

The thread to follow here is that of the character of Abu Sadiya, who in the eleventh century would have wandered the streets of Tunis in search of his daughter, abducted and enslaved. Abu Sadiya was also the spiritual guide of the slaves from the Malian empire who lived in Tunisia. Yacine Boulares makes a more precise portrait (as the drawing of this cover) "Abu Sadiya frightened children (…) Dressed in skins of goats and rags, wearing a conical hat, this Black dancing with rolling eyes Was the Pere Fouettard of the Tunisian streets ", he learns in the notes and the musician who had heard about this figure by his father, wished to revive this character at the origin of a whole musical tradition, where the trance offers to certain to healing …

"Takhmira" or "the entry into trance" extracted from this project "Abu Sadiya" carried by Yacine Boulares … The saxophonist and clarinettist wanted here to reconnect with the tradition of the Tunisian stanbeli "intimate music less popular than the Moroccan gnawa" explains it.

Cellist Vincent Segal - met alongside Placido Domingo - also sees another escape from the music highway, one of those "little stony paths" he loves. A disc that operates like a loop from sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa on the other side and jazz.

Tracklist:

01. Dar Shems (The House of The Sun)
02. Disappearance
03. Bahriyya (The Water Spirits)
04. Interlude I
05. Takhmira (A Trance)
06. Mirage
07. Demian
08. Qmar (Prayer to the Moon)
09. Interlude II
10. Sadiya
11. Nuba-Resilience

Personnel:

Yacine Boularès - saxophones, clarinet
Vincent Segal - cello
Nasheet Waits - drums



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