Abed Azrie
He describes his works as not belonging to any particular music tradition. In his work he sets ancient and modern Arabic, Sumerian, and other West Asian texts to traditional instruments (such as the ney, kanun, darbuka, violin, flute and lute), and synthesizers. He was born in Aleppo, and after living for a time in Beirut moved to Paris at the age of 22 where he studied Western classical music.
Abed Azrie
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- Name
- Abed Azrie
- Born
- 1945
- Birthplace
- Aleppo, Syria
- Occupation
- Musician
- Nationality
- France.
- Languages
- Arabic.
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He describes his works as not belonging to any particular music tradition. In his work he sets ancient and modern Arabic, Sumerian, and other West Asian texts to traditional instruments (such as the ney, kanun, darbuka, violin, flute and lute), and synthesizers. He was born in Aleppo, and after living for a time in Beirut moved to Paris at the age of 22 where he studied Western classical music.
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While there he translated classical poetry, such as the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, into French. He has stated that he prefers to live in the West, saying in a 2000 interview that he has an "inability to work in the Arab countries, in which the way people live is still conditioned by halal and haram. Here I can produce contemporary art, I can work in freedom, and there is 'motion' around what I produce: journalism, concerts, programme..Nobody tells me to write a song for a specific political occasion." His music has been featured in the films Al Leja, directed by Ryad Chaia, Elia Suleiman's Chronicle of a Disappearance. And Florence Strauss's "Between Two Notes" 2006, as well as in Jan Visser's 1975 TV documentary De Droom (The Dream), based on drawings by and interviews with Palestinian refugee children and Palestinian resistance poetry.
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• Background — person • Name — Abed Azrie • Native Name — عابد عازرية • Born — 1945 • Birthplace — Aleppo, Syria • Genre — Arabic music • Occupation — Musician • Years Active — 1990s–present
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Abed Azrie is recorded with the occupation translator. Recorded as songwriter, singer, composer, translator and musician.
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Life and career
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1945
Abed Azrie was born on 1 January 1945.
Discography
• 1990: Aromates • 1994: Epopée de Gilgamesh • 1996: Lapis Lazuli • 1999: Pour enfants seulement • 1999: Omar Khayyam • 2001: Venessia - sung in Venetian dialect. • 2006: Suerte Live • 2007: Chants d'amour et d'ivresse (Live A Radio France) • 2008: Mystique - Sufi poems • 2009: Évangile selon Jean oratorio in Arabic, 2CD • 2010: Satie En Orient with Ensemble Sarband • 2011: Epopée De Gilgamesh (New Recording 2011)
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- 1.Abed Azrié Biographie.
- 2.Linafelt, Tod. Surviving Lamentations: Catastrophe, Lament, and Protest in the Afterlife. University of Chicago Press. 31. 2000. 0-226-48190-5.
- 3.Holden, Stephen. The Pop Life. The New York Times. 20 March 1991.
- 4.Nidel, Richard. World Music: The Basics. Routledge. 204. 2005. 0-415-96800-3.
- 5.Rakha, Youssef. The francophone predicament. Al-Ahram Weekly. 27 July 2000.
- 6.van Gelder, Lawrence. An Unforgiving Landscape. The New York Times. 1 April 1997.
- 7.Janet, Maslin. In a Holy Land of Kitsch, Politics and Terrorism. The New York Times. 22 March 1997.
- 8.Peucker, P. M. Inventaris van de archieven van IKOR, CVK en IKON en gedeponeerd archief. Historisch Documentatiecentrum voor het Nederlands Protestantisme (1800-heden), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. December 1995.
- 9.Doumtak / Nocturne NTCD1810. Booklet includes Arabic sung texts and English and French translations.
- 10.Doumtak / Nocturne NTCD802. Booklet includes Arabic sung texts and English and French translations.
- 11.Doumtak / Nocturne NTCD803. Booklet includes Arabic sung texts and English and French translations.
- 12.François Bensignor review in French on Mondomix.com Doumtak / Nocturne. Booklet includes Arabic sung texts and English and French translations.
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