The latest release from the revered Kronos Quartet, entitled Floodplain, contains works written for Kronos by composers from Palestine and Serbia, traditional works from Lebanon, Turkey and Iran, contemporary interpretations of the classical music of Azerbaijan and India, and popular music from 1940s Egypt, and 1970s Iraq. Over the course of more than three decades, San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet has commissioned more than 600 new works, performed thousands of concerts world wide, released more than 50 recordings, and collaborated with dozens of artists.
Omar Souleyman / Dabke 2020 (Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria)
I’ve always been a fan of wild singers, and Omar Souleyman more than qualifies. The label Sublime Frequencies releases some wonderful CDs and Dabke 2020 is one of my favorites. What a vital sound. Distortion rules!
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