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| Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel has played tributes to Tunisian oud player Dhafer Youssef on live shows, but this set foregrounding the two of them - with a live duo version in London tomorrow at LSO St Luke's - is the first revisit to a special partnership forged on Youssef's Electric Sufi in 2001. Muthspiel's guitar is the perfect spur and support for the Tunisian's extraordinary vocal forays, which span deep preoccupied murmurings, choir-pure long sounds and soaring violin-like high notes. The mood is mostly pensive, though the driving Sand Dance, with its tabla clatter, Scofield-like guitar chords and trumpet counterpoint from Tom Harrell, is irresistibly funky. There are racing hooks with late-arriving lilting melodies on top, like Middle-Eastern Pat Metheny, a scattering of softly sparing reveries gently accelerating over tabla rhythms and clipped guitar fills, and the ballads Maya and Rhapsodie have a jazzy flavour. The emphasis is Youssef's more than Muthspiel's - who adopts more of an enabling role - but Glow certainly sounds like a set uplifted by a shared muse. |
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Wolfgang Muthspiel (guitars, violin, programming, fender rhodes guitar); Dhafer Youssef (voice, oud); Tom Harrell (trumpet, flugelhorn); Alegre Correa (drums, percussion); Matthias Pichler (bass); Rebekka Bakken (voice) |
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