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Name: Anouar Brahem  
   
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Date of Birth: 20th October 1957
   
Place of Birth: Halfaouine, Tunis, Tunisia
   
Profession: Composer
 
 
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Anouar Brahem (أنور ابراهم) (born October 20, 1957) is a Tunisian oud player and composer who is widely regarded as an innovator in his field. Performing for primarilly a jazz audience, he fuses Arabic classical music, folk music and jazz and has been recording since at least 1991 after becoming prominent in his own country in the late 1980s.

Brahem began studying the oud at age 10 under the tutelage of Ali Sitri at the National Conservatory of Music in Tunis. In 1987, after six years in Paris, he spent two years as the director of the Ensemble Musical De In Ville De Tunis. ECM released his first album (not counting a cassette self-release in his youth) in 1991, called Barzakh.

In playing style, Anouar Brahem is often compared to Rabih Abou-Khalil, though his compositions tend to be more mellow and spare. Most often he utilizes an ensemble of three or four musicians, and on no two albums are his accompanying instruments the same. He has collaborated throughout his career and on several albums with Turkish percussionist Lassad Hosni.

Discography

  • 1991, Barzakh (ECM 1432)
  • 1992, Conte de l'incroyable amour (ECM 1457)
  • 1994, Madar (ECM 1515)
  • 1995, Khomsa (ECM 1561)
  • 1998, Thimar (ECM 1641)
  • 2000, Astrakan Café (ECM 1718)
  • 2002, Le Pas du Chat Noir (ECM 1792)

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