JISR // BrückeFrom the Alps to the Atlas Mountains
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In the North African Maghreb region, a diverse range of musical styles and traditions have been mixing for thousands of years: the classical Arabic and African music with its rhythmic richness, Berber music from the Atlas, Sahara blues, Gnawa music, as well as Andalusian music and mystical Arab-Jewish traditions. “JISR // Brücke”, the international ensemble around the Moroccan singer and sintir player Mohcine Ramdan, has reached deep into the treasure trove of this region’s music and explores the boundaries between its various traditions with virtuosity and aplomb. Paying tribute to the magnificent sounds of North Africa, JISR takes its audience on a musical trip all the way from the Atlas Mountains to the Alps.
This event is in the past.
In the North African Maghreb region, a diverse range of musical styles and traditions have been mixing for thousands of years: the classical Arabic and African music with its rhythmic richness, Berber music from the Atlas, Sahara blues, Gnawa music, as well as Andalusian music and mystical Arab-Jewish traditions. “JISR // Brücke”, the international ensemble around the Moroccan singer and sintir player Mohcine Ramdan, has reached deep into the treasure trove of this region’s music and explores the boundaries between its various traditions with virtuosity and aplomb. Paying tribute to the magnificent sounds of North Africa, JISR takes its audience on a musical trip all the way from the Atlas Mountains to the Alps.
The special guests are two internationally renowned soloists from Marrakesh, Morocco’s “red city” at the foot of the Atlas Mountains: the violin virtuoso Marwan Fakir and the oud player Alaa Zouiten, who has made his home in Berlin. Collaborating with Munich musicians with backgrounds in a wide range of genres, JISR takes an ethnographic snapshot of Morocco’s polycultural music scene that transcends the boundaries between the genres of the North African country and fills the listener’s imagination with images of far-away worlds.
Musicians
- Alaa Zouiten: oud
- Marwan Fakir: violin
- Slava Cernavca: clarinet, bass clarinet
- Mohcine Ramdan, percussion, sintir, vocals
- Patricia Ott: piano
- Matthias Gmelin, drums
- Gergely Lukács, trumpet
