Ali Omar

With every passing year, pianist Omar Sosa continues to define what contemporary world music can be. Each effort is quite different than the previous one, while the bright colors, timbres, and elements of his Cuban-based music are elevated higher and higher. In his restlessness to find further truth and beauty, there's a calm serenity and unabashed confidence in his vision and personal musicianship.

Omar Khayyam, un album qui nous conduit dans le patio d’un savant épicurien qui vécut il y a neuf siècles: Omar Khayyam, ce persan penseur des sciences et de la philosophie; Abed Azrié a mis en musique ses célèbres «quatrains», odes profondément joyeuses à l’amour et au vin. Parce qu’ils auraient pu conduire leur auteur au bûcher, ces vers hérétiques ont été gardés secrets… pendant près de 800 ans. La musique les libère de ce poids de la faute et de la transgression.

A movie company is doing the Arabian Nights when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof of Rosevelt's New Deal, he organizes work programs, taxes the rich and abolishes the army.