Chants d'amour et d'ivresse

Description

Abed Azrié, born in Aleppo and adopted by Montmartre, navigates between Western and Arab music: the chamber violins respond to the Arabic violin, the accordion invents its own microtones, while his voice gradually becomes intoxicated with itself, detaching the words from its only true god: the Arabic language. Osmosis, overcoming musical antagonisms, a kind of grand work. While I observed the radiant record slowly engulfed by the circle of shadow. The recorded voice of Abed Azrié filled the silence. It seemed to comment on the flow of a metaphysical thought, and the music offered the key to it. I have rarely felt this sense of fullness. Only in the middle of the desert or in the midst of the ocean. I have always identified it as a revelation of the traveler's path.