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Playlist #37: Shubbak Festival Collaborations

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Click here for the full playlist on YouTube and Spotify. This year Shubbak Festival, the largest biennial festival of contemporary Arab culture in Europe, celebrates its 10 year anniversary since its foundation in 2011. Since then, MARSM has had the pleasure and honour to collaborate with...

Playlist #33: Piano Pleasures

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Click here for the full playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Emerging from the Western classical repertoire, the piano made its first appearance in Arabic music in the early 20th century. The earliest works associated with this instrument are said to be by Sayed Darwish who used...

EP 3: Tarek Yamani

Our guest in our the Music Elevator is Lebanese jazz pianist and award winning composer Tarek Yamani. Described as “having a piano in each hand” Tarek’s work is rich and varied in its inspiration.  From his first album Ashur, released in 2012, Tarek has been reinventing...