“The war started in my homeland in 2011. From that point on making music was no longer a choice, it was a crucial means to express and come to terms with intense feelings of loss and sadness from seeing my people suffer and my land destroyed. On a hot summer’s afternoon in London in 2012 I was watching the news. At the time I felt overwhelmed, as if I was going to explode, so I held my qānūn and ‘Syrian dreams’ came out of me. That was the very first piece of music I wrote.”
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Awards
Artists
Maya Youssef
Kanun
Barney Morse-Brown
Cello
Sebastian Flaig
Percussion
Attab Haddad
Oud
Composers
Maya Youssef
Contents
MAYA YOUSSEF · Horizon (2'14) · Bombs turn into roses (3'55) · Hi-Jazz (3'59) · Touta (Syrian traditional arr. by Maya Youssef) (6'02) · Queen of the night (6'37) · Syrian Dreams (3'20) · The Seven gates of Damascus (10'53) · Breakthrough (5'26) · The Sea (4'23)
Medias
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