Impressive album of Dutch guitarplayer JWO, who embraces the Northafrican Arabic world and developed an innovating crossover between music cultures.

10 MP3 Songs
POP: with Electronic Production, WORLD: African- North

Details:
JWO´s first solo album "Open up your eyes" is released in 2000 and had excellent reviews.

Virtuoso Dutch guitar player Jan Wouter Oostenrijk completed his professional Jazz guitar studies at the conservatory of Amsterdam in 1995. He got a degree for classical guitar and took lessons in Flamenco music and Arabic melody. On stage he developed into a great player and his music shows us all corners of the world. At the open university he also studied Arabic language.

JWO was part of successful Moroccan formations like Raïland (CD album Câest pas ma faute-EMI label, winner of Dutch âGouden Notenkraker â award in 1996 ) en Noujoum Raï.

Nowadays he combines his experiences with the North African music-culture with his own European roots. JWOâs guitar playing is melting excellent with Arabic Sharki, Raï and Chaâby. Together with his band they developed an impressive, innovating crossover between music cultures you could call Maghreb jazz or Jazz Marock.

The band is not only successful in Holland, in the summers of 2004 and 2005 he played at big international festivals in Morocco like Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech. Beside that he performed with famous Sudanese singers Alkably and Amal Anour at the Dutch embassy in Khartoum, with Gnawa player Majid Bekkas from Marocco and at the fashionshows of Salima Abdel Wahab in Switzerland. April 2008 heâs gonna play at the Egyptian center for culture and art in Cairoâ¦.

New album "Maghreb Jazz Guitar" released in 2007.

Please visit our website http://www.jwo.nu for more...

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