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Featuring 2-time Grammy nominee, National Endowment for The Arts National Heritage Fellow, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings artist and Iraqi oud virtuoso and composer, Rahim Alhaj, along with Iranian santour maestro, Sourena Sefati, and world percussion master, Javier Saume-Mazzei, the Rahim AlHaj Trio performs Alhaj’s intricate compositions which delicately combine traditional Iraqi maqams with contemporary stylings and influences. The music evokes the experience of exile from AlHaj’s homeland and of new beginnings in his adopted country and his work establishes new concepts without altering the foundation of the traditional “Iraqi School of Oud.” The Rahim AlHaj Trio’s debut CD, One Sky, a deeply immersive sonic experience, features these three world-renowned musicians “weaving transfixing textures and melodies that transport listeners to a world of tranquility and beauty.” Representing AlHaj’s artistic appeal to each of us to make a positive difference toward a better world, the album brings together Sefati, Saume-Mazzei and AlHaj in the spirit of friendship, tolerance and an acknowledgement that everyone must live in peace under the same sky. NY Music Daily (Live Review) wrote, “Oud Virtuoso Rahim AlHaj Plays the Year’s Single Best Concert at Lincoln Center: The trio followed with a performance that ran the gamut of human emotions: sometimes harrowing, often haunting, but also kinetic and dancing, with a delirious, exhilarating stampede out at the end. ... with elegant harmonies from earth to sky from oud and santoor.... Yet all the energy, and passion, and frequent humorous japes were matched by a somber undercurrent, party music for a city and a world increasingly under siege.”
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
210 Yale Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM, United States, New Mexico 87106
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