Waed Bouhassoun News
Syrian singer and oud player
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- contralto
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2017-06-03 19:00:00
These photos have just been uploaded to the Facebook feed of Syrian singer and oud player Waed Bouhassoun with the tag 'Feeling festive in Cardona, Cataluna, Spain. Félicitations #amour #amitiés #bonheur'. Waed has featured frequently On An Overgrown Path and has played many times with Jordi Savall. I have no official information but the groom is obviously Jordi, so my wife and I feel it is in order to add our Félicitations. Also on Facebook and Twitter. Any copyrighted material is included as "fair use" for critical analysis only, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s).
2017-05-09 10:04:00
News of Decca/Universal Music's release of an album by a young Syrian refugee violinist Rami leaves me conflicted. Of course the humanitarian tragedy sparked by the Syrian civil war is a terrible thing and any initiative that draws attention to it is laudable. And some of the proceeds from the project are going to the deserving cause of the British Red Cross. But why does a story like this only receive media coverage when it comes from the Universal Music spin machine? And is Decca's motivation in releasing this album entirely altruistic? Above is a photo taken at the conclusion of a workshop for refugees musicians held this month in Arc-et-Senans, France. The workshop was directed by that tireless advocate of humanitarian causes Jordi Savall who is in the centre of the photo; to his right is the Syrian classical musician Waed Bouhassoun who collaborated with Jordi at the workshop. […]
2017-03-20 11:19:00
Recent compelling rail trip listening included the new CD La Voix de la Passion (Voice of Passion) from the young Syrian singer and oud player Waed Bouhassoun. In 2015 I wrote about her previous album L'Âme du luth (Love of the oud) and on this new disc she juxtaposes settings of Nabataean poetry from southern Syria and Arab poetry from the cultural Indian summer of Al-Andalusia - sample via this link. In his 2011 book The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You Eli Pariser explained the dangers of the little-understood filter bubbles created by the personalisation algorithms used by Facebook, Google and other major Internet players. These algorithms maximise web traffic by personalising - in other words skewing - content to pander to the known likes of individual web users. In very simple terms this means that clicking on or 'liking' Facebook statuses about Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla […]
2015-09-01 13:44:00
Towards a dialogue of souls
[…] Amin Maalouf's assertion that: "If we are to restore some hope to our disoriented humanity, we must go beyond a mere dialogue of cultures and beliefs towards a dialogue of souls. As we stand at the beginning of the 21st century, that is the irreplaceable mission of art". Singing and playing the oud on that homage to Syria, and also on Jordi's acclaimed 'Bal•Kan: Honey and Blood' project was the young Syrian Waed Bouhassoun. She now lives in France and recently released her second solo album titled 'L'Âme du luth' (Love of the oud); all the compositions are her own, two for solo oud are coupled with nine songs with mystical themes. Sufism in Syria has been targeted by the dark forces of fundamentalism, and all Waed Bouhassoun's settings pay homage to this liberal and mystical strand of Islam. Ibn 'Arabi is represented by his famous […]
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