Thimar is an album by Tunisian oud player Anouar Brahem

Anouar Brahem

Anouar Brahem is an oud player and composer. He is widely acclaimed as an innovator in his field...

 recorded in 1997 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Raymond McKinney awarded the album 4 stars stating it "superbly fuses the traditions of jazz with those of Arab classical music, pushing the parameters of both while succumbing to the clichés of neither".

Track listing

All compositions by Anouar Brahem except as indicated

1. "Badhra" - 8:30
2. "Kashf" - 5:23
3. "Houdouth" - 5:36
4. "Talwin" - 4:18
5. "Waqt" - 2:32
6. "Uns" - 4:48
7. "Al Hizam Al Dhahbi" - 5:40
8. "Qurb" - 5:16
9. "Mazad" (Dave Holland) - 5:05
10. "Kernow" (John Surman) - 5:10
11. "Hulmu Rabia" - 2:14
    • Recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway on March 13 -15, 1997

Personnel

• Anouar Brahem
  Anouar Brahem
  Anouar Brahem is an oud player and composer. He is widely acclaimed as an innovator in his field...
  
   - oud
  Oud
  The oud is a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in North African and Middle Eastern music. The modern oud and the European lute both descend from a common ancestor via diverging paths...
  
  
• John Surman
  John Surman
  John Douglas Surman is an English jazz saxophone, bass clarinet and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music as a basis...
  
   - soprano saxophone
  Soprano saxophone
  The soprano saxophone is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in 1840. The soprano is the third smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists of the soprillo, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass and tubax.A transposing instrument pitched in...
  
  , bass clarinet
  Bass clarinet
  The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet...
  
  
• Dave Holland
  Dave Holland
  Dave Holland is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for 40 years....
  
   - double bass
  Double bass
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