Sarāb
Sarāb – mirage in Arabic – is a musical edifice that combines rock, modern jazz and traditional Arab music, playing with borders and genres. It is the result of a meeting between the Franco-Syrian singer Climène Zarkan and the guitarist Baptiste Ferrandis.
It’s a chimerical adventure that brings together the fury of contemporary jazz and the infinite richness of traditional Middle Eastern music and texts. Dreaming with the harmonies of jazz, exulting with the energy of rock, dancing with the rhythms of the world, the six musicians sublimate the depths of tradition to deliver to mankind the enchanting poetry of these eternal melodies.
Sarāb
The duo soon became a six-headed creature, where each∙e became∙e indispensable to the musical creation. Robinson Khoury’s trombone links up with the voice, and navigates between oriental and European scales, between ornamentation and a personal technique. It is with the trombone and the voice that we find the horizontality of Arab music, turned upside down […]
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