The Middle East: Taksim Trio, Sjahin During, Mercan Dede (Turkey), Trio Joubran (Palestine), Toufic Farroukh (Lebanon) – producer: Cobie Ivens.
I. Café Istanbul. (18:50 min).
* Taksim Trio, three men connected by their instruments and their friendship, They show the mastery of three instruments: clarinet, baglama and qanun. ** Shahin During, born to a Dutch father and a Turkish mother, grew up the first six years of his life in Istanbul before moving to the Netherlands, to the small island of Texel. His grandfather once led the second violin section of the world-famous Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, while his father is a designer, chair maker and violin maker and his mother a gifted ceramicist. *** Mercan Dede, also known as DJ Arkin Allen, is a Turkish-Canadian composer, ney and bendir player, DJ and producer. He is a world musician who combines traditional acoustic Turkish and other oriental styles with electronic sounds.
CD. Café Istanbul. LABEL: Union Square Music (2010), code: METRTCD858. VIDEO | website Sjahin During
II. Trio Joubran. (25:35 min).
An oud trio that plays traditional Palestinian music. The trio consists of brothers Samir, Wissam and Adnan Joubran, originally from Nazareth and currently divided between Nazareth, Ramallah and Paris. The brothers come from a well-known family with a rich artistic heritage.
Their mother sang the poems that originated in Arab Spain, while their father is one of the most renowned builders of string instruments in Palestine and the Arab world.
CD. Randana – Le Trio Joubran.
LABEL: Harmonia Mundi (2005), code: FP 500. VIDEO
III. Toufic Farroukh. (16:20 min).
Saxophonist and composer of jazz with a Middle Eastern slant, stemming from his bi-cultural roots in Lebanon and France. His brother, a saxophonist, guided him in learning to play the instrument and taught him the basics. The instrument was foreign to their environment; unconventional, and only used for certain occasions. Toufic Farroukh moved from Beirut to Paris, where he studied music at the conservatory. The saxophone was his main instrument. He studied his instrument in a way that was completely his own, not comparable to other styles of music played on the saxophone.
CD. Little secrets – Toufic Farroukh. LABEL: Silex (1999), code: Y 225076. VIDEO
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