Abed Azrie

Abed Azrie

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Name = Abed Azrie


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Born = 1945
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Genre = Arabic music
Occupation = Musician
Years_active = 1990s–present
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Abed Azrie (born 1945), also written as Abed Azrié, is a Syrian singer who performs Arab classical music, [cite web |url=http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/artist/content.artist/abed_azrie_38405
title=Abed Azrie profile |accessdate=2008-01-23 |work=Nat Geo Music |publisher=National Geographic
] although he claims to belong to no particular music tradition.cite book |title=Surviving Lamentations: Catastrophe, Lament, and Protest in the Afterlife |last=Linafelt |first=Tod |year=2000 |publisher=University of ChicagoPress |isbn=0226481905 |pages=p.31] In his work he sets ancient and modern Arabic texts to traditional instruments (such as the ney, kanun, darbuka, violin, flute and lute), and synthesizers. [cite news |first=Stephen |last=Holden |title= The Pop Life |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7D8133BF933A15750C0A967958260 |work=The New York Times |publisher=The New York Times Company |date=1991-03-20 |accessdate=2008-01-23 ]

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. [cite book |title=World Music: The Basics |last=Nidel |first=Richard |year=2005 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0415968003 |pages=p. 204] 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." [cite news |url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/492/cu2.htm |title=The francophone predicament |accessdate=2008-01-23 |first=Youssef |last=Rakha |date=2000-07-27 |work=Al-Ahram Weekly]

His music has been featured in the films "Al Leja", directed by Ryad Chaia, [cite news |first=Lawrence |last=van Gelder |title=An Unforgiving Landscape |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02EFDE1E3AF932A35757C0A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print |work=The New York Times |publisher=The New York Times Company |date=1997-04-01 |accessdate=2008-01-23 ] and Elia Suleiman's "Chronicle of a Disappearance". [cite news |first=Maslin |last=Janet |title=In a Holy Land of Kitsch, Politics and Terrorism |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E0DD143BF931A15750C0A961958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FF%2FFestivals |work=The New York Times |publisher=The New York Times Company |date=1997-03-22 |accessdate=2008-01-23 ]

Singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley was a fan of Azrie's music, and two once had dinner. [cite journal |last=Farrar |first=Josh |date=1996-02-29 |title=Kingdom for a Kiss |journal=DoubleTake |url=http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/words/interviews/doubletake.html |accessdate= 2008-04-24 ]

Discography

* 1990: "Aromates"
* 1994: "Epopée de Gilgamesh"
* 1996: "Lapis Lazuli"
* 1999: "Pour enfants seulement"
* 1999: "Omar Khayyam"
* 2001: "Venessia"
* 2006: "Suerte Live"
* 2007: "Chants d'amour et d'ivresse"

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