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nouar Brahem (born October 20, 1957 in Tunis, is a Tunisian oudist and composer.
He strongly modified the traditional role of the oud, modernizing it and confronting it with Western music, especially jazz. He is considered a modern musician, while having a deep knowledge of traditional Arabic music.
Biography :
Born in the Tunisian district of Halfaouine, he joined at the age of ten the National Conservatory of Music of Tunis, where he follows the teaching of Ali Sriti. This admission is almost too late according to Brahem, as Tunisian children usually learn music earlier. He began playing in orchestras at the age of fifteen. Oud player, he composes for his instrument and various formations, in particular jazz. In 1981, he moved to Paris for four years, during which time he collaborated with Maurice Béjart and composed many original works, notably for Tunisian cinema.
Between 1985 and 1990, back in Tunisia, he continues his work of composition and, through many concerts, acquires public notoriety.
In 1987, he was entrusted with the direction of the Musical Ensemble of the city of Tunis and, in 1988, opened the International Carthage Festival with Leilatou Tayer; Tunis-Hebdo will write: "If we had to elect the musician of the 1980s, we would choose without hesitation Anouar Brahem." In 1990, he flew for a tour in the United States and Canada and in 1992, is called to conceive and participate actively in the creation of the Center for Arab and Mediterranean music installed at the Ennajma Ezzahra Palace of Baron Erlanger in Sidi Bou Saïd.
In 1988, Brahem sent a demonstration DAT tape to Manfred Eicher of the Publishing of Contemporary Music label. He notices it in the pile of cassettes piled on his desk because of the calligraphy on the stamp of the envelope of sending. Beyond his initial intuition, Eicher brings Brahem to Oslo in September 1990 for the recording of Barzakh1. Without waiting for the returns of the first album, Eicher made him record his second record, Conte of the incredible love, in October 1991. Brahem is very grateful for this mark of confidence.
In addition to his own albums, he also wrote film scores and, with Lebanese Rabih Abou-Khalil, is part of this stream of contemporary music that brings together Arab and Western music. This "enchanting master" who creates "a music at a time totally rooted in a highly sophisticated ancestral culture and eminently contemporary in its universalist ambition" has played and recorded with great names in contemporary jazz such as François Jeanneau, Jan Garbarek, John Surman or Jean-Paul Céléa.
In 2006, just after the Israeli-Lebanese conflict, Anouar Brahem went behind the camera and made his first documentary film called Words after the war. The film is set in Lebanon and is based on interviews with Lebanese artists and intellectuals in the aftermath of the ceasefire after the 2006 summer war between Israel and Hezbollah.
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