Sarāb

Syria/France

Sarāb

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SARĀB — mirage in Arabic – was born from the meeting between Franco-Syrian singer Climène Zarkan and guitarist Baptiste Ferrandis. The duo quickly transformed into a six-headed creature, where each one became indispensable to the musical creation of the collective that fuses Arabic words and melodies, western rhythms and sounds, and the worlds of jazz and rock. It’s an adventure that brings together the fury of contemporary jazz and the infinite richness of traditional Middle Eastern music and lyrics. SARĀB is one of the leading groups of the Paris music scene and features the dazzling trombone player Robinson Khoury. His trombone links with the voice, and navigates between the Eastern and European scales, between ornamentation and a personal technique. It is with the trombone and the song that we find the horizontality of the Arab music, upset by the rich harmonic verticality of the guitar and the piano. The six musicians of SARĀB sublimate the depth of traditions to deliver to us the

enchanting poetry of these eternal melodies.