Anouar Brahem Trio - Astrakan Cafe

Tunisian oud virtuoso Anouar Brahem counts as one of ECM's most important discoveries of the last decade. After his highly successful trans-cultural recording Thimar, he returns to a more purely Middle Eastern music on Astrakan Caf�, with the trio that has been his first priority for several years. The improvisational exchanges between Brahem, clarinettist Barbaros Erk�se and percussionist Lassad Hosni are exceptionally fluid, and the atmospheres that they create by turns mysterious, hypnotic, dramatic...