CD, стоящие на полке рядом : Pseudo Ethnic (Arabica)      

Recording Date: Feb 10,15, 2004

What happens on "Journey to the Centre of an Egg", his album no. 13 for ENJA, is something new -- even for Rabih Abou-Khalil's standards. Joachim Kuhn, the cosmopolitan piano player hailing from Leipzig, Germany and one of the best known jazz musicians in Europe, meets the oud player on a novel trip through Abou-Khalil's musical universe. Rooted in the music of J.S. Bach as well as Ornette Coleman and documented on more than 200 albums, 61-year-old Kuhn brings his very refinement and rich experience into this unique meeting. He improvises with eloquence, adds contrapuntal lines and funky accents, brings the music to new shores, turns it all around and gets it safely home again. Here two masterful conceptions of music collide and cause an explosion of creativity.

Even the instrumentation on this album is a first: Abou-Khalil's brilliant playing of the oud (the Arab lute) combined with Kuhn's piano (and saxophone!) and the artful drumming of Jarrod Cagwin, a long-time member in Abou-Khalil's regular band and deep into Turkish, African and Indian rhythms. The three of them go for quick-minded interaction full of amazing turns and humorous high points offering probably the most thrilling and most entertaining adventure to be found in today's improvised music.

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