(Ethnic Jazz, Middle Eastern) Kareem Roustom El-Zafeer Ensemble - Almitra's Question - 2004, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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Kareem Roustom El-Zafeer Ensemble / Almitra's Question
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REM GENRE "Ethnic Jazz"
REM DATE 2004
REM DISCID 4E08FD06
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v1.0b3"
PERFORMER "Kareem Roustom El-Zafeer Ensemble"
TITLE "Almitra's Question"
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    TITLE "Sandstorm"
    PERFORMER "Kareem Roustom El-Zafeer Ensemble"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
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    TITLE "Naima"
    PERFORMER "Kareem Roustom El-Zafeer Ensemble"
    INDEX 00 05:21:01
FILE "02 - Naima.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
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    TITLE "Almitra's Question"
    PERFORMER "Kareem Roustom El-Zafeer Ensemble"
    INDEX 00 07:01:02
FILE "03 - Almitra's Question.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
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    TITLE "O Sacrum Convivium"
    PERFORMER "Kareem Roustom El-Zafeer Ensemble"
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    PERFORMER "Kareem Roustom El-Zafeer Ensemble"
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    TITLE "Salwa's Last Dance"
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auCDtect: CD records authenticity detector, version 0.8.2
Copyright (c) 2004 Oleg Berngardt. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2004 Alexander Djourik. All rights reserved.
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(Kareem Roustom), except 2. (John Coltrane) and 4. (Olivier Messiaen)
Produced by Kareem Roustom
Recorded by Keith Armstrong at Adam Cohen Productions, Los Angeles, March 2002
Additional recording by Michael Bednarczyk, Waltham, MA and Peter Kontrimas at PBS Studios, Westwood, MA 2002-03
Mixed & mastered by Rob Ruccia at Uptown Recording, Chicago, IL, May 2004
Guitarist Kareem Roustom was born in Damascus, Syria to American and Syrian parents; on Almitra's Question he and the El-Zafeer Ensemble make music that blends American jazz with Arabic sounds. The rhythm patterns and the distinctive percussion (riqq and daff) lend an exotic and crisply declamatory backdrop to Roustom's lush accoustic guitar playing and violinist Hanna Khoury's sweetly sinuous lines. Exotic, mysterious—especially to an ear (like this reviewer's) that hasn't listened to much of the music from the East.
Spirituality always seems an underlying theme. The group plays the ever-spiritual John Coltrane tune "Naima" and Oliver Messiaen's "O Sacrum Convivium," along with four Roustom originals; and even his prosaically named "Burnt Onions" seems suffused with a gentle, ecstatic soulfulness.
The set has a cohesive, collaborative feel, with violin and guitar sharing the space like dancers, a sort of Django/Grappelli sound with a softer and more lilting tone, leaning eastward; or like something you might hear from an acoustic Bill Frisell, if he were to immerse himself in Arabic sounds.
To this ear Almitra's Question has charmingly simple, accoustic atmosphere, similar to—though rhythmically different from—flamenco.
Enchanting stuff!

Kareem Roustom: guitar
Hanna Khoury: violin
Danny Dunlap: bass (except 5.)
Catherine Alexander: percussion (Riqq on 1., Daff on 3.)
Souhail Kaspar: percussion (Riqq on 2,3,5, Tabla on 1,6)
Karim Nagi Mohammed: percussion (Riqq on 4,6, Daff on 4,5)
Fernando Huergo: bass (5)
Ronit Kirchman: additional violins (4)