Joseph Tawadros - Hope in an Empty City (2021)
BAND/ARTIST: Joseph Tawadros
- Title: Hope in an Empty City
- Year Of Release: 2021
- Label: Joseph Tawadros
- Genre: World, Folk, Jazz
- Quality: FLAC (track)
- Total Time: 1:18:02
- Total Size: 419 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
“The album is very eclectic, with fast-paced numbers, blues and jazz grooves, slow and meditative pieces and some of my more contemplative solo oud improvisation. It has been a real journey of emotions and genres as I wrote then played these new pieces with the band and I’m delighted with the result. It’s an adventurous recording for me and I hope it will add a little something to the musical landscape.” Joseph Tawadros
This is a new band for Joseph, with four well-established players coming together for the first time. The music was written specifically for this ensemble and each player has brought his own experience and nuance to the pieces.
Jordanian violinist Layth Sidiq, like Joseph, was brought up immersed in Arabic music yet is also comfortable in any genre, bringing flavours of jazz, classical, folk and world music to the tunes. Joseph and Layth together are a real highlight of the sound, bringing an authentic Middle Eastern strength to Hope in An Empty City, emphasising Joseph’s deep sense of melody drawn from those eastern traditions.
Layth is an award-winning violinist, composer and educator and is director of both the Arab Music Ensemble at Tufts University and the Center for Arabic Culture’s Youth Orchestra Program in Boston.
With the solid rhythm section of Scott Colley, double bass and Dan Weiss, drums, this is a novel direction for Joseph – with a drum kit rather than traditional Arabic percussion. It adds a different dimension to his music resulting in an organic, spacious jazz-inflected sound. Dan Weiss is an adventurous player with deep skills in world music rhythms, whose innovative drumming consistently pushes musical limits.
Scott Colley – a jazz player and four times Grammy nominee, has been described as, “One of the leading bassists of our post-bop era, and a composer-bandleader of quietly serious resolve,” by The New York Times.
David ‘Fuze’ Fiuczynski is an “iconoclastic innovator and a rebel with a guitar”. Fluent in funk, rock, fusion, he plays a unique fretless guitar, with which he can match Joseph’s more glissando phrases. In fact, all the stringed instruments on this album are fretless.
There’s a distinctive individual energy from each player as they come together creating a new sound for Joseph’s compositions with a cinematic breadth that will take listeners on an evocative and emotional musical adventure.
Joseph Tawadros • Oud Layth Sidiq • Violin Dan Weiss • Drums Scott Colley • Double Bass David Fiuczynski • Fretted and Fretless Electric Guitar
1.01 - Joseph Tawadros - Smoke and Mirrors (5:57)
1.02 - Joseph Tawadros - The Longer Road (5:18)
1.03 - Joseph Tawadros - Everything Is You (4:43)
1.04 - Joseph Tawadros - Abou Cromb (2:33)
1.05 - Joseph Tawadros - Devil's Advocate (4:41)
1.06 - Joseph Tawadros - Tit for Tat (1:59)
1.07 - Joseph Tawadros - Von Brandy (3:26)
1.08 - Joseph Tawadros - The Light of Your Being (4:31)
1.09 - Joseph Tawadros - Your Memory Still Lingers (4:08)
1.10 - Joseph Tawadros - An End Without Chance (5:36)
1.11 - Joseph Tawadros - The Empty City (6:48)
1.12 - Joseph Tawadros - Man Plans, God Laughs (4:47)
1.13 - Joseph Tawadros - Happier Times (5:56)
1.14 - Joseph Tawadros - My Wish For You (5:19)
1.15 - Joseph Tawadros - Dance of the Quarter Tones (3:59)
1.16 - Joseph Tawadros - Heart to Heart (4:00)
1.17 - Joseph Tawadros - Ya Lel (The Night) (4:21)
This is a new band for Joseph, with four well-established players coming together for the first time. The music was written specifically for this ensemble and each player has brought his own experience and nuance to the pieces.
Jordanian violinist Layth Sidiq, like Joseph, was brought up immersed in Arabic music yet is also comfortable in any genre, bringing flavours of jazz, classical, folk and world music to the tunes. Joseph and Layth together are a real highlight of the sound, bringing an authentic Middle Eastern strength to Hope in An Empty City, emphasising Joseph’s deep sense of melody drawn from those eastern traditions.
Layth is an award-winning violinist, composer and educator and is director of both the Arab Music Ensemble at Tufts University and the Center for Arabic Culture’s Youth Orchestra Program in Boston.
With the solid rhythm section of Scott Colley, double bass and Dan Weiss, drums, this is a novel direction for Joseph – with a drum kit rather than traditional Arabic percussion. It adds a different dimension to his music resulting in an organic, spacious jazz-inflected sound. Dan Weiss is an adventurous player with deep skills in world music rhythms, whose innovative drumming consistently pushes musical limits.
Scott Colley – a jazz player and four times Grammy nominee, has been described as, “One of the leading bassists of our post-bop era, and a composer-bandleader of quietly serious resolve,” by The New York Times.
David ‘Fuze’ Fiuczynski is an “iconoclastic innovator and a rebel with a guitar”. Fluent in funk, rock, fusion, he plays a unique fretless guitar, with which he can match Joseph’s more glissando phrases. In fact, all the stringed instruments on this album are fretless.
There’s a distinctive individual energy from each player as they come together creating a new sound for Joseph’s compositions with a cinematic breadth that will take listeners on an evocative and emotional musical adventure.
Joseph Tawadros • Oud Layth Sidiq • Violin Dan Weiss • Drums Scott Colley • Double Bass David Fiuczynski • Fretted and Fretless Electric Guitar
1.01 - Joseph Tawadros - Smoke and Mirrors (5:57)
1.02 - Joseph Tawadros - The Longer Road (5:18)
1.03 - Joseph Tawadros - Everything Is You (4:43)
1.04 - Joseph Tawadros - Abou Cromb (2:33)
1.05 - Joseph Tawadros - Devil's Advocate (4:41)
1.06 - Joseph Tawadros - Tit for Tat (1:59)
1.07 - Joseph Tawadros - Von Brandy (3:26)
1.08 - Joseph Tawadros - The Light of Your Being (4:31)
1.09 - Joseph Tawadros - Your Memory Still Lingers (4:08)
1.10 - Joseph Tawadros - An End Without Chance (5:36)
1.11 - Joseph Tawadros - The Empty City (6:48)
1.12 - Joseph Tawadros - Man Plans, God Laughs (4:47)
1.13 - Joseph Tawadros - Happier Times (5:56)
1.14 - Joseph Tawadros - My Wish For You (5:19)
1.15 - Joseph Tawadros - Dance of the Quarter Tones (3:59)
1.16 - Joseph Tawadros - Heart to Heart (4:00)
1.17 - Joseph Tawadros - Ya Lel (The Night) (4:21)
Year 2021 | Jazz | Classical | World | Folk | FLAC / APE
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