Português

Rabih Abou-Khalil - Em Português (2008) {Enja Records ENJ-9520 2}
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© 2008 Enja Records | ENJ-9520 2
Jazz / Oriental Jazz / Fado / Ethnic / Oud

Oud master Rabih Abou-Khalil has been known to mix and match various ethnic strains, but in the case of Em Portugues, he's outdone himself. The music has the obvious Middle Eastern tinge you would expect, but also sounds more like a head-on collision of fado and Hasidic or klezmer music underneath heavily sexual Brazilian sounds. What is most striking is that what Abou-Khalil has concocted sounds nothing like any of these distinct musics individually, but more a brand-new hybrid that only he could provide a definition for.