Tarab is an ensemble that aims at creating an imaginary link between aesthetic elements of Mediterranean music and the Irish instrumental and vocal tradition.

10 MP3 Songs in this album (46:23) !
Related styles: World: Mediterranean, World: Celtic, Type: Acoustic

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Tarab * * * *

Turin-born Dubliner and musical alchemist Francesco Turrisi leads a new multi- cultural supergroup that fairly covers the waterfront with traditional flautist Emer Maycock and bodhrán player Robbie Harris, jazz saxophonist Nick Roth and contemporary classical cellist Kate Ellis. But it would be facile to call the resulting music âfusionâ. Tarab (an Arabic word denoting a kind of musical ecstasy) is a collective exploration of the deep currents, real and imagined, that flow between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Not perhaps since Andy Irvineâs celebrated East Wind in 1992 has there been such a convincing reorientation of the Irish tradition. Ecstasy may be a little over-ambitious for their debut â the mood is sedate rather than exuberant â but there is undoubtedly transcendence here and, if they stay together, ecstasy may ensue.
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