A Paradise in the Hold
by Yazz Ahmed
- Type: Album
- Released: 28 Feb 2025
- Label: Night Time Stories
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:09:59
- Community rating: 3.38/5 from 11 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'A Paradise in the Hold', trumpeter and composer Yazz Ahmed delves deeply into her Bahraini heritage, weaving together the sorrowful songs of pearl divers and the celebratory rhythms of traditional women's drumming circles with contemporary jazz. For the first time, Ahmed incorporates lyrics in both Arabic and English, utilizing a range of vocalists as instrumental textures alongside her own evocative trumpet and flugelhorn. The album balances intricate, large-ensemble compositions and modern production with the ancient polyrhythms and scales of the Arabian Peninsula, creating a narrative journey of cultural self-discovery.
Genres
Descriptors: complex
Tracklist
- She Stands On the Shore (05:13)
- A Paradise In The Hold (10:04)
- Mermaids' Tears (07:46)
- Her Light (08:04)
- Al Naddaha (07:57)
- Dancing Barefoot (06:59)
- Into The Night (01:44)
- Though My Eyes Go To Sleep, My Heart Does Not Forget You (08:35)
- To The Lonely Sea (08:16)
- Waiting For The Dawn (05:21)
Credits
- Yazz Ahmed - trumpet, flugelhorn, handclaps, programming & ululations, composed by [music and original lyrics], arranged by, primary artist
- George Crowley - bass clarinet & handclaps
- Ralph Wyld - vibraphone, marimba & handclaps
- Naadia Sheriff - fender rhodes, piano, roland jx-03 & handclaps
- Dudley Phillips - bass & handclaps
- Martin France - drums & handclaps
- Corrina Silvester - percussion & handclaps, composed by, darbuka, riqq, sagat
- Alcyona Mick - fender rhodes
- Samuel H盲llkvist - guitars
- Dave Manington - bass
- Natacha Atlas - voice
- Brigitte Beraha - voice & handclaps
- Randolph Matthews - voice
- Alba Nacinovich - voice
- Jason Singh - voice & additional programming
- Samy Bishai - violin
- Noel Langley - flugelhorn, handclaps & additional programming, composed by
- Engineer Family - chatter & ululations
- Charlie Campion - art direction
- Sophie Bass - artwork
- Darren Jones - recorded at livingston studios by
- Lizzie Arnold - recorded at platoon 7 by
- Matej Zec - recorded at g.i.s. studio, rijeka, croatia by
- Robin Morrison (2) - mastered by
- Tom Jenkins - mixed by