Katalógové číslo:
PTC5187031
Autori:
Benjamin Britten, Claudio Monteverdi, Fairuz, Giulio Caccini, John Dowland, Jonathan Harvey, Layale Chaker, Sayyed Darwish, Toru Takemitsu
Interpreti:
Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe
1 John Dowland: Time Stands Still
2 Jonathan Harvey: Sufi Dance
3 Giulio Caccini: Dalla porta d’oriente
Claudio Monteverdi
4 Sì dolce è’l tormento
5 La mia turca
6 La prima vez (Traditional Sephardic; arr. Sean Shibe & Karim Sulayman)
7 Lamma bada yatathanna (Arab-Andalusian muwashshah; arr. Sean Shibe)
8 Sayed Darwish: El helwa di (arr. Sean Shibe & Karim Sulayman upon Ronnie Malley’s arrangement)
9 Fairuz (b. 1934), after Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999): Li Beirut (arr. Sean Shibe & Karim Sulayman)
10 Layale Chaker: A Butterfly in New York
Toru Takemitsu: In the Woods
11 I. Wainscot Pond
Benjamin Britten: Songs from the Chinese
12 No. 1 The Big Chariot
13 No. 2 The Old Lute
14 No. 3 The Autumn Wind
15 No. 4 The Herd-Boy
16 No. 5 Depression
17 No. 6 Dance Song
Tenor Karim Sulayman and guitarist Sean Shibe present Broken Branches, a conceptual album with music ranging from Dowland, Monteverdi, Britten, Rodrigo, Takemitsu, Harvey, and Chaker to traditional songs from the Middle East, scrutinizing the close cultural and musical ties between East and West. This musical exploration ties in with the artists’ personal experience of a dynamic, in-between identity, as they grew up in the West having ethnic roots in the East (Lebanon and Japan respectively). Broken Branches explores the wood of the guitar and its relatives, as well as the splintering of history known as diaspora.