WANABNI - And we will build

Collection PURE - Philippe Teissier du Cros WANABNI - KAMILYA JUBRAN Voix, oud - WERNER HASLER Trompette, Electronique Et nous bâtirons / And we will build

Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hasler

The encounter of two worlds : palestinian poetry and arabic music for Kamilya Jubran, jazz and electronics for the swiss trompetist Werner Hasler

The result is outstanding, with a new language made of both cultures, illustrating the harsh and desperate words of contemporary poets.

More than 5 years have passed since K&W produced their 1st album « Wameedd » , more than hundred shows they’ve performed together during this period, in different parts of the world. Such continuous « live » and alive process has greatly shaped and strengthened their musical interplay. Simultaneously, it allowed them to learn more on each others’ roots, and enabled them to find additional common playgrounds despite the differences of their origins. This , as well as their shared common vision of the world , has augmented their desire to keep searching for new challenging spaces that would provoke , at the same time invite them to take more risks and more freedom in their expressions.

« Wanabni » process started as an attempt to reply to a question K&W asked themselves : how would we play today the song « Al Shaatte Al Akhar » (one of their tunes that their audience mostly liked) after having played it so many times . This route necessitated an up grade of their tools as well as their ways of using them ; and their continuous work slowly grew to be their new repertoire that they based on classical Arabic music, modern classical music of the 20th century, jazz and electronic music. An outcome that once again deserves a definition that goes far beyond a shallow or simplistic « exotic oriental -European fusion» one.

Parallel to the musical evolution, and following their wish to have a natural coherent growth of their project, K&W have revisited the same poets they collaborated with in 2003 for Wameedd , namely Fadhil Al Azzawi, Aïcha Arnaout, Sawsan Darwaza, and have chosen texts that were written by those poets since then/after 2003. K&W have revised the same book ‘Hommes de l’autre rive’ of Dimitri Analis- the only poet they do not know in person, and of it, they selected an other part that links up with/recalls « Al Shaattee Al Akhar ». They as well combined some texts of the poet Hassan Najmi - with whom Kamilya has collaborated, for her last solo project Makan. Consequently, the storyline of Wanabni embodies some recent reflections of those contemporary poets.

MAKAN - 2009 ZZT090102 - Collection Pure - Philippe Teissier du Cros About MAKAN : An extraordinarily innovative musician, she displayed a dazzling melodic sensibility on the oud, employing at times equal parts American soul, funk and avante-garde music as well as classical Levantine motifs, with hypnotic tinges possibly evocative of Moroccan gnawa. Playing original settings of contemporary Palestinian poems, she sang with a high, youthful delivery, clear and direct, minutely jeweled with the subtlest shades of angst, regret and longing. Concert Review: Parissa and Kamilya Jubran at the Asia Society, NYC 6/11/09 Lucid Culture

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Lancement le 7 avril 2010 Studio de l’ermitage

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