Anouar Brahem is the oud’s conjuror, an authentic master at bringing out the acoustic magic which this age-old traditional Oriental lute carries inside its calabash: the musical heritage of the Arab ...

Tunisian musician Anouar Brahem and his International Quartet perform music from his latest album After the Last Sky and more at the National Concert Hall, Dublin on 2 November. We asked him the BIG ...

The oud, a kind of fretless guitar with an egg-shaped body, has been played throughout the Middle East and North Africa for centuries. In Anouar Brahem's home country of Tunisia, the oud in current ...

Many of ECM's standout albums are a result of rich confluences of jazz, classical and world music sensibilities. The authors of those albums have a thorough, deep knowledge and understanding of each ...

Listening to Brahem's new CD, Le Pas Du Chat Noir, it's easy to hear what the 45-year-old composer is talking about. As in much of the famed American pianist's work, Brahem's beautiful melodies, ...

Tunisian oud virtuoso Anouar Brahem has long been regarded as an innovator of his instrument - fusing jazz influences with the music of his homeland, and his latest album is yet another continuation ...

Anouar Brahem is one of Tunisia's best-known composers and musicians. He's released numerous solo albums and collaborated with a renowned French choreographer and an esteemed Greek filmmaker. Yet ...

A subtle musical provocateur, Tunisia's Anouar Brahem approaches the oud with guitar flourishes and Western accents, blurring the instrument's ancestry sonically in the name of a new globally ...

Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem marries the resonant stringed instrument of that name skilfully and intuitively in a glorious collaboration with the work of bassist Dave Holland, drummer Jack ...

If it were English, our featured album would be called "The black cat's footsteps". Tunisian lutenist ANOUAR BRAHEM(PRON: AN-wah BRAH -hem) leads a truly unique trio, with two French friends on piano ...