Basel Zayed / Ayn Trio
| Album: | Ayn Trio | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Basel Zayed | Added: | Feb 2019 | |
| Label: | Basel Zayed | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2019-02-07 | Pull Date: | 2019-04-11 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
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| Week Ending: | Apr 7 | Mar 31 | Mar 24 | Mar 10 | Mar 3 | Feb 17 | Feb 10 |
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| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 06, 2019: | Audio Ambrosia
Samaa'i Nahawand |
4. | Mar 28, 2019: | Cafe Nakhil
Farah |
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| 2. | Apr 06, 2019: | Music Casserole
I've Known Love |
5. | Mar 23, 2019: | the Acupuncture Hour
I've Known Love |
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| 3. | Mar 28, 2019: | audio ambrosia
Farah |
6. | Mar 21, 2019: | Hanging in the Bone Yard
I See In The Heavens |
Album Review
Ramzi Salti
Reviewed 2019-02-02
Reviewed 2019-02-02
Album: Ayn Trio (2018)
Artist: Basel Zayed
Reviewed by Ramzi S.
Composer Basel Zayed creates a modern interpretation of Mediterranean music, fused with elements from Western classical, jazz and contemporary music. The trio on this CD consists of Basel Zayed (vocals, oud & Buzuq), Naseem Al- Altrash (cello) and Layth Sidiq (violin).
Recommended Tracks (#8 for instrumental; #7 with vocals)
FCcs: None
1. Violence (4:10) (oud, buzuq, vocals) is a jagged weave of melody and history, setting the stage for a human drama.
2. Samaa’I Nahawand (7:37) resolves the tensions established in “Violence,” linking one dreamlike flow to another.
3. I see in the Heavens (3:55) Based on poem by Amer Badran. Zayed’s arrangement places a stethoscope over Badran’s symbolic heartbeat and reveals the truth of its song.
4. City (4:36) shifts our point of view from rural to urban, yet without losing the innocence so brilliantly set by the album’s beginnings.
5. Checkpoint (4:03) moves with a buoyant caution than can be taken either as a literal or figurative border crossing.
6. Waiting (6:14) feels like a continuation of the story.
7. I’ve known love (7:30) echoes the sentiments of Sufi poets Raabi’a Al-’Adawiyya and Al-Hallaaj
8. Of Great Importance (4:17) draws a line from without to within from a seemingly bottomless inkwell.
9. Farah (3:14) By using the Maqam Hijaz scale normally associated with sadness, Zayed shows that joy is a very subjective matter.
Artist: Basel Zayed
Reviewed by Ramzi S.
Composer Basel Zayed creates a modern interpretation of Mediterranean music, fused with elements from Western classical, jazz and contemporary music. The trio on this CD consists of Basel Zayed (vocals, oud & Buzuq), Naseem Al- Altrash (cello) and Layth Sidiq (violin).
Recommended Tracks (#8 for instrumental; #7 with vocals)
FCcs: None
1. Violence (4:10) (oud, buzuq, vocals) is a jagged weave of melody and history, setting the stage for a human drama.
2. Samaa’I Nahawand (7:37) resolves the tensions established in “Violence,” linking one dreamlike flow to another.
3. I see in the Heavens (3:55) Based on poem by Amer Badran. Zayed’s arrangement places a stethoscope over Badran’s symbolic heartbeat and reveals the truth of its song.
4. City (4:36) shifts our point of view from rural to urban, yet without losing the innocence so brilliantly set by the album’s beginnings.
5. Checkpoint (4:03) moves with a buoyant caution than can be taken either as a literal or figurative border crossing.
6. Waiting (6:14) feels like a continuation of the story.
7. I’ve known love (7:30) echoes the sentiments of Sufi poets Raabi’a Al-’Adawiyya and Al-Hallaaj
8. Of Great Importance (4:17) draws a line from without to within from a seemingly bottomless inkwell.
9. Farah (3:14) By using the Maqam Hijaz scale normally associated with sadness, Zayed shows that joy is a very subjective matter.
Track Listing
| 1. | Violence | 5. | Checkpoint | |||
| 2. | Samaa'i Nahawand | 6. | Waiting | |||
| 3. | I See In The Heavens | 7. | I've Known Love | |||
| 4. | City | 8. | Of Great Importance | |||
| 9. | Farah | |||||