Rohana Overwater Ensemble
A true musical dialogue between cultures requires a thorough understanding of their cultural language. Genuine interest, curiosity and research into the smallest detail, the nuances and the rhetoric of each other's musical language is needed to create something new - something that enhances the qualities of both worlds instead of getting bogged down in platitudes and stereotypes.
The Rohana Overwater Ensemble is the fruit of the musical friendship between the Palestinian ud player Nizar Rohana and Dutch bassist Tony Overwater. Together they selected three prominent musicians from the Arab world and the Netherlands: clarinet player Maarten Ornstein; Tunisian violinist and viola d'amore player Jasser Haj Youssef and the Jordanian percussionist Nasser Salameh; Led by Tony and Nizar, each member of the ensemble contributes some of his compositions and jointly strive for the creation of new music with a authentic sound.
Some years ago the paths crossed of the Palestinian oud player Nizar Rohana and bassist Tony Overwater and they developed a close musical friendship. What they share is a genuine curiosity for each other's musical world; the classical Arabic music and the world of improvisation and Western early music. Rohana's academic background, he does research at the University of Leiden about the phrasing of the Arab taqsim styles, and Overwaters broad musical interests led to a detailed examination of the nuances and rhetoric of each other's styles. In this they differ from many so-called crossover projects which only glue together the stereotypical characteristics of the chosen music. Rohana and Overwater pursue a deeper fusion in which the details of the maqam oriented musical styles, with all its dialects, and the harmony driven music from the West, with all its subtleties and complexities, are not shunned.
Jasser Haj Youssef - violin, viola d’amore
Maarten Ornstein - clarinet
Nizar Rohana - ud
Tony Overwater - bass
Nasser Salameh - percussion
Video links:
Nizar Rohana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oKo0FKSSf8
Jasser Haj Youssef
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBXhGvWlYOI
Tony Overwater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbpZdzeHVik
Maarten Ornstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHiE_RkXfCI
Nasser Salameh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpIZfUaYHDE
18:00 Lecture (interview with Tony Overwater)
19:00 Syrian buffet
20:30 Concert
Korzo Theater
Prinsestraat 42
2513 CE Den Haag
070-3637540
www.korzo.nl
In collaboration with the Amsterdam Andalusisch Orkest, Salon Joussour invites Omar Metioui. This aoud player is one of the leading Andalusian players that studies and revives the Andalusian Classical Music. He plays different kinds of aouds from the early Andalusian times that are almost forgotten. With his Ensemble he revives the Andalusian musical culture. With the musicians from Salon Joussour they will perform a program which combines the different influences from and on the Andsalusian Culture. Music from the medieval times, Flamenco, Sufi music and popular Moroccan music.
Omar Metioui - aoud ramal, aoud sharqi et aoud turc
Ahmed El-Maai - Rbab, alto, qanun
Noureddin Acha - nay
Said Ben Guerch - percussion
Maarten Ornstein - clarinet
Tony Overwater - violone
Grounds, Rotterdam
12 May 2017
17:00: interview musicians
18:00: diner
19:00: concert
http://www.grounds.nu/agenda/moriscos-underground-presenteert-fuente/
Onlangs kwam het album 'Om de Oude Wereldzee' uit van het Tony Overwater Ensemble.
Deze cd is verkrijgbaar bij diverse digitale winkels als iTunes en Amazon.
Een cd versie is verkrijgbaar via Jazz in Motion Records.
Bestel de cd Om de Oude Wereldzee door 12,50 euro over te maken op:
Stichting Tonality, Amsterdam
IBAN: NL58 INGB 0001 9204 49
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