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Ibrahim Maalouf – True Sorry

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There are some amazing, groundbreaking jazz trumpet players out there right now: Tomasz Stanko, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Avishai Cohen, Enrico Rava, Arturo Sandoval, Ambrose Akinmusire, Terrence Blanchard... and Ibrahim Maalouf. Maalouf's music blends the sonic landscape of his Lebanese heritage with classical training at a Parisian conservatory, a self-cultivated jazz impulse, and funk-inflected rock.

I gave you the longer, more intimate, small-venue live cut of "True Sorry," but if you like it I hope you'll check out this more expansive, atmospheric live recording made possible by the concert venue a Alcaline. I don't think I can pick between them.

I know you may have been expecting a video by Prince today. Instead, I'll leave you with footage of Ibrahim Maalouf in concert, showcasing a sound that embraces everything Prince stood for (and which he would have most certainly dug):

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Souad Massi – Ghir Enta

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httpv://youtu.be/sYStxC90iqE

Souad Massi's music has an amazing lineage, steeped the tumult of her native Algeria and its rigid cultural mores. From a 2005 profile by The Independent:

From the beginning, she was drawn to wildly different musical styles. "I listened to folk rock and hard rock," she says, "and then, later, pop music and, I guess, world music. But at first, it was basically through movies, the spaghetti westerns." Joan Baez, who played Algiers in the 1970s, was a formative influence, as was the flamenco and jazz guitar that her uncle played, and even, incongruously, the country star Kenny Rogers. "Folk rock has been a big influence," Massi says, "and I was inspired by the poetry in the songs of that time, its rich metaphors and phrases that had double meanings. I pushed myself to work in the same way."

She learnt guitar with the help of her older brother Hassan, and her first professional gigs were with a short-lived flamenco group, before she joined the Algerian rock band Atakor. She stayed with them for seven years, touring a country where musicians were routinely shot by Islamists and army alike, and playing festivals picketed by extremists, patrolled by armed police and, more often than not, torched by the crowd itself. The Big Chill they were not.

The first time I heard this – I don't even know where I came across it – I was transfixed. The album versions more enchanting than this performance (a clever fella on YouTube dubbed the studio track over this same video), but this is still very nice.

I don't know all the words to the song, but I'm translating the refrain from the Russian translation on this video:

No one but you
No one but you
No one but you
Has entered my heart

No one but you
No one but you
No one but you
In my heart only you

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Boban Marković Orkestar – Mesecina

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBDtRhxLwoI

 

This one's for Rhu_Ru. Boban Marković Orkestar is frequently heralded as best brass band in the world. These guys – and Boban's group with his son, Marko – are awesome, but it's just about impossible to find a decent video where you can hear the low brass & accordion as well as the upper brass. In a typical example, here's Marko Marković taking lead on a Balkan-inflected cover of Lee Dorsey's "Ya Ya" nonsense song from 1961:

httpv://youtu.be/WkSVsdHalmU

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