FRANCE MUSIQUE: Jazz Trotter: Amir Elsaffar - Rivers of Sound, Not Two

FRANCE MUSIQUE: Jazz Trotter: Amir Elsaffar - Rivers of Sound, Not Two

BY ALEX DUTILH

"Using resonance as its guiding principle, music incorporates elements of modal maqam music from the Middle East with jazz and other contemporary practices to create a unique microtonic environment that surpasses the notions of style and tradition in a field Of uninhibited musical communication."

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