Abed Azrie

Abed Azrie
Abed Azrie عابد عازرية
Background information
Born	1945 (age 74–75); Aleppo, Syria
Genres	Arabic music
Occupation(s)	Musician
Years active	1990s–present
Website	http://www.abed-azrie.com

Abed Azrie or Abed Azrié (Arabic: عابد عازرية‎) (born 1945 in Aleppo) is a French-Syrian singer and composer[1] of Syrian descent, who performs Classical music in a variety of languages, including Arabic, English, French, German, Spanish, and other.[1] He describes his works as not belonging to any particular music tradition.[2] In his work he sets ancient and modern Arabic, Sumerian, and other West Asian texts to traditional instruments (such as the ney, kanun, darbuka, violin, flute and lute), and synthesizers.[2][3]

He was born in Aleppo, and after living for a time in Beirut moved to Paris at the age of 22 where he studied Western classical music. While there he translated classical poetry, such as the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, into French.[4] He has stated that he prefers to live in the West, saying in a 2000 interview that he has an "inability to work in the Arab countries, in which the way people live is still conditioned by halal and haram. Here I can produce contemporary art, I can work in freedom, and there is 'motion' around what I produce: journalism, concerts, programme…Nobody tells me to write a song for a specific political occasion."[5]

His music has been featured in the films Al Leja, directed by Ryad Chaia,[6] Elia Suleiman's Chronicle of a Disappearance.[7] and Florence Strauss's "Between Two Notes" 2006, as well as in Jan Visser's 1975 TV documentary De Droom (The Dream),[8] based on drawings by and interviews with Palestinian refugee children and Palestinian resistance poetry.

Discography

1990: Aromates[9]
1994: Epopée de Gilgamesh
1996: Lapis Lazuli[10]
1999: Pour enfants seulement
1999: Omar Khayyam[11]
2001: Venessia - sung in Venetian dialect.
2006: Suerte Live
2007: Chants d'amour et d'ivresse (Live A Radio France)
2008: Mystique - Sufi poems
2009: Évangile selon Jean oratorio in Arabic, 2CD[12]
2010: Satie En Orient with Ensemble Sarband
2011: Epopée De Gilgamesh (New Recording 2011)

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References

"Abed Azrié Biographie". Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2014-06-08.
Linafelt, Tod (2000). Surviving Lamentations: Catastrophe, Lament, and Protest in the Afterlife. University of Chicago Press. p. 31. ISBN 0-226-48190-5.
Holden, Stephen (1991-03-20). "The Pop Life". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2008-01-23.
Nidel, Richard (2005). World Music: The Basics. Routledge. pp. 204. ISBN 0-415-96800-3.
Rakha, Youssef (27 July 2000). "The francophone predicament". Al-Ahram Weekly. Archived from the original on 14 January 2008. Retrieved 23 January 2008.
van Gelder, Lawrence (1997-04-01). "An Unforgiving Landscape". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2008-01-23.
Janet, Maslin (1997-03-22). "In a Holy Land of Kitsch, Politics and Terrorism". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2008-01-23.
Peucker, P. M. (December 1995). "Inventaris van de archieven van IKOR, CVK en IKON en gedeponeerd archief" (PDF). Inventaris van de archieven van IKOR, CVK en IKON en gedeponeerd archief. Historisch Documentatiecentrum voor het Nederlands Protestantisme (1800-heden), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Retrieved August 27, 2016.
Doumtak / Nocturne NTCD1810. Booklet includes Arabic sung texts and English and French translations.
Doumtak / Nocturne NTCD802. Booklet includes Arabic sung texts and English and French translations.
Doumtak / Nocturne NTCD803. Booklet includes Arabic sung texts and English and French translations.
François Bensignor review in French on Mondomix.com Archived January 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Doumtak / Nocturne. Booklet includes Arabic sung texts and English and French translations.

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[Abed_Azrié_Biographie-1] "Abed Azrié Biographie". Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2014-06-08.

[Linafelt-2] Linafelt, Tod (2000). Surviving Lamentations: Catastrophe, Lament, and Protest in the Afterlife. University of Chicago Press. p. 31. ISBN 0-226-48190-5.

[3] Holden, Stephen (1991-03-20). "The Pop Life". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2008-01-23.

[4] Nidel, Richard (2005). World Music: The Basics. Routledge. pp. 204. ISBN 0-415-96800-3.

[5] Rakha, Youssef (27 July 2000). "The francophone predicament". Al-Ahram Weekly. Archived from the original on 14 January 2008. Retrieved 23 January 2008.

[6] van Gelder, Lawrence (1997-04-01). "An Unforgiving Landscape". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2008-01-23.

[7] Janet, Maslin (1997-03-22). "In a Holy Land of Kitsch, Politics and Terrorism". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2008-01-23.

[8] Peucker, P. M. (December 1995). "Inventaris van de archieven van IKOR, CVK en IKON en gedeponeerd archief" (PDF). Inventaris van de archieven van IKOR, CVK en IKON en gedeponeerd archief. Historisch Documentatiecentrum voor het Nederlands Protestantisme (1800-heden), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Retrieved August 27, 2016.

[9] Doumtak / Nocturne NTCD1810. Booklet includes Arabic sung texts and English and French translations.

[10] Doumtak / Nocturne NTCD802. Booklet includes Arabic sung texts and English and French translations.

[11] Doumtak / Nocturne NTCD803. Booklet includes Arabic sung texts and English and French translations.

[12] François Bensignor review in French on Mondomix.com Archived January 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Doumtak / Nocturne. Booklet includes Arabic sung texts and English and French translations.