Alsarah & The Nubatones
septembersept 21
Saturday september 21
21h30
Voice, melodies Alsarah. Back vocal and keyboards Nahid. Bass and trumpet Mawuena Kodjovi. Oud Brandon Terzic. Percussions Rami El Aasser.
La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers et le Festival d’Automne à Paris présentent cette Carte Blanche en coréalisation.
The Dream City Carte Blanche will be marked by a concert given by the group Alsarah & the Nubatones. Born out of discussions between Alsarah and Rami El Aasser about Nubian songs, migration and cultural exchanges between Sudan and Egypt.
Their love of pentatonic sounds brought Haig Manoukian (oud) and Mawuena Kodjovi (bass) together to create an East African retro-pop sound, accompanied by oud, a plucked string instrument central to traditional Middle Eastern and North African music. In March 2014, they released their internationally acclaimed debut album Silt / طمي. Alsarah & the Nubatones explore the themes that mark the long journey after immigration begins. Their 2016 album Manara is both a quest and a celebration of the upheavals that migration brings.
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