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| Maya Youssef |
Maya Youssef - qanun
Date - 22nd November 2017
Venue - A World In London, Resonance FM, London, UK
Album - Syrian Dreams (Harmonia Mundi, 2017)
Future performance
January 18th, 2018 - Celtic Connections 25th Anniversary Concert, Glasgow, UK.
Mesmerising conjurer
of qanun, Maya Youssef on this A World in London!
Click to listen:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-world-in-london-22nd-november-2017/
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| Maya Youssef |
You can almost imagine the original advert on a
dating app: ‘Qanun, ancient Persian zither seeks 21st century Queen
of the heart'. A young girl living in Damascus saw this advert and
replied, ‘I will be your heart, your queen, your life-partner, and
together we will make beautiful music that will touch the hearts of
everyone else’. That girl was Maya Youssef, and thus began a
soul-filled romance with her Qanun that has taken the love-struck
pair concerting around the world, via seas filled with Syrian Dreams.
We first interviewed Maya Youssef in 2012, after she had just moved
to London. She was on the brink of new discovery, and her homeland
was on the brink of disaster - a lot has happened in the five years
since then. Listen to this AWIL to hear one of our most poignant &
moving interviews, plus Maya’s emotive & spellbinding
compositions from her critically acclaimed debut album ‘Syrian
Dreams’.
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| Patrick Bernard - Resonance FM Sound Engineer |
22/11/17 – AWIL at Res 145 Online:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-world-in-london-22nd-november-2017/
Production & pics by Sofia Gaetani-Morris, Norman Druker, Sophie
Darling & sketches by artist Alban Low. Also this week Latchepen
at SOAS Radio:
https://soasradio.org/music/episodes/a-world-in-london-242-latchepen
Next week global music at SOAS. #AWorldinLondon – IN ITS
ELEVENTH YEAR! Live on Wednesdays 6.30pm Resonance
104.4 www.resonancefm.com & 4pm SOAS
Radio mixlr.com/soasradio
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