Broken Branches
Broken Branches
€ 10,99 – € 18,00
John Dowland (1563-1626)
Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012)
Giulio Caccini (1551-1618)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Traditional Sephardic
Arab-Andalusian muwashshah
Sayed Darwish (1892-1923)
Fairuz (b. 1934), after Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999)
Layale Chaker (b. 1990)
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
In the Woods
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Songs from the Chinese
Album information
MUSICAL EXPLORATION OF DYNAMIC, IN-BETWEEN IDENTITIES
Tenor Karim Sulayman and guitarist Sean Shibe present Broken Branches, a conceptual album with music ranging from Dowland, Monteverdi, Britten, Rodrigo, Takemitsu, Harvey, and Chaker to traditional songs from the Middle East, scrutinizing the close cultural and musical ties between East and West. This musical exploration ties in with the artists’ personal experience of a dynamic, in-between identity, as they grew up in the West having ethnic roots in the East (Lebanon and Japan respectively). Broken Branches explores the wood of the guitar and its relatives, as well as the splintering of history known as diaspora.
Karim Sulayman has garnered international attention as a sophisticated and versatile artist, and won a Grammy Award for Classical Solo Vocal in 2019. Multi-award-winning guitarist Sean Shibe brings a fresh and innovative approach to the traditional classical guitar, while also exploring contemporary music and repertoire for electric guitar. He continues his exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE after his well-received Camino(2021) and Lost & Found (2022).
