Crisis
by Amir ElSaffar
- Type: Album
- Released: 24 July 2015
- Label: Pi Recordings
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:06:36
- Community rating: 4.15/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Crisis' was commissioned by the Newport Jazz Festival, where the Two Rivers Ensemble premiered it in August 2013 to a standing ovation for its opening song. ElSaffar leads the sextet on trumpet, vocals and santur, with Ole Mathisen on saxophones, Nasheet Waits on drums, Carlo DeRosa on bass, Tareq Abboushi on buzuq and Zafer Tawil on oud and percussion.
Genres
Descriptors: fusion, complex, virtuosic, improvisational, atmospheric
Tracklist
- Introduction - From the Ashes (4:54)
- The Great Dictator (8:50)
- Taqsim Saba (3:17)
- El Sha'ab (The People) (8:18)
- Love Poem (7:05)
- Flyover Iraq (9:45)
- Tipping Point (13:40)
- Aneed (Weeping), Continued (3:36)
- Love Poem (Complete) (7:08)
Credits
- Samia Halaby - artwork [cover art: cross currents (1999)]
- Tareq Abboushi - lute [buzuq]
- Zafer Tawil - oud, percussion
- Ole Mathisen - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
- Katsuhiko Naito - engineer [engineered], mixed by, mastered by
- Simon Grendene - design [package design]
- Seth Rosner - executive-producer
- Yulun Wang - executive-producer
- Ed Berger - photography by [photo of amir elsaffar by]