Among other artists GlobalArt is supporting the composer and singer Abed Azrié with his musical and spiritual concept of crossing the lines:
In all his compositions he combines- albeit in very different ways - Orient and Occident, poetry and music, tradition and modernity as well as different languages. But also in his passionate commitment for freedom of the spirit, he often goes beyond entrenched ways of thinking. In his admiration for poetry and mystic thinking, he understands himself as a spiritual man, renouncing, however, all religious dogmas. "I am neither a Muslim nor a Christian nor a Jew, but I am a worldly, a secular man who loves to ponder about all those ideas in a free and sympathetic way." The poetic language of all times means to him an "aesthetic memory of mankind", which he puts into music in a distinctive personal style, in which musical elements and instruments of East and West interconnect and merge.
Artist's Homepage: www.abed-azrie.com
News about Abed Azrie on www.overgrownpath.com
Das Gilgamesch Epos
Das Johannesevangelium
Die göttliche Liebe der Sufis
Andalusien: zwischen Freude, Tanz und Besinnlichkeit
Omar Khayyam: Oden an die Liebe und den Wein
Die Arabische Poesie der Klassik und der Gegenwart
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Media:
www.euronews.de (text & video, German)
www.dailymotion.com (video interview, French)
www.mondomix.com (text and video interview, French)
france24.com (interview and video feature, French)
A bilingual audiovisual concert for a western and oriental ensemble and chorus. Libretto, music and singing: Abed Azrié
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poems from the Divan of Hafisand the West-Eastern Divan set into music by Abed Azrié
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