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Yacine Boulares And Vincent Segal at Rizzoli Bookstore
Courtesy of Ludovico Granvassu | Posted on October 13, 2018
When
Sun, October 21, 2018
5:00 pm
At Door
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Musicians
Yacine Boulares
saxophoneVincent Ségal
celloAbout
In a special duo show, Yacine Boulares and Vincent Segal will present music from "Suites for Abu Sadiya" along with readings of poems and songs from the Tunisian Stambeli tradition.
In 2014 Brooklyn based French-Tunisian saxophonist Yacine Boulares met French cellist Vincent Segal on the recording of Placido Domingo's intimate album "Encanto del Mar" and they decided to work together on a new project reimagining the forgotten Stambeli repertoire. Stambeli is a healing trance music created by the descendants of Sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia. Boulares and Segal's original compositions form a series of variations on the legend of the hunter Abu Sadiya. In his wandering search for his enslaved daughter, Abu Sadiya danced and sang his sorrow in the streets of Tunis thus becoming the first musician of Stambeli and personifying the memory of Sub-Saharan slaves in Tunisia....