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Moroccan vocalist Ismail Boujia delivers a powerful and otherworldly performance in ‘Mawal Nahawand’. From Sami Yusuf’s album ‘Live at the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music’.


PERFORMERS (From right to left):

Seyyed Mohammad Jaberi: daf, bendir & vocals
Ömer Avci: bendir, tef, kudum & vocals
Onur Cicin: qanun
Sezgin Yaman: oud
Emre Kayacan: kemanche
Hasan Kirkisoglu: ney
Mahyar Toreihi: santoor
Hüseyin Can Pala: bağlama

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Sami Yusuf


Special thanks to Ismail Boujia & his group for joining as guest vocalists (From right to left):

Mostafa El Lachkar
Ismail Boujia
Elouafi Mohammed
Hamza Idrissi
Mohammed El Alami
Abderrazak Idrissi


Translation:

They said, ‘Have you forgotten the One Whom you love?’
So I told them ‘O People, He Who is my Spirit, how could I ever forget Him?

And how could I forget Him, by Whom all things are beautified.
It would be a strange thing indeed for a servant to forget his Lord.

He is never hidden from me yet I see Him not,
Except that I say openly ‘Say He is God.’
What say the accusers? Their efforts are in vain.
What the enemies say makes it all the more meaningful.

Indeed I do love Him. What they say is indeed true.
Yes, O Yes! I love Him! Indeed do I love Him!
I ask forgiveness from God for all but His love,
For it is all the good deeds I have on the day that I meet Him.

And if they should say that love is a transgression,
Then love is the best thing with which one can meet God.

– Shaykh Ahmad al-Rifa’i
(12th c founder of Rifa’I Sufi Order)

Translated by Nicholas Boylston


ABOUT THE ALBUM

Sami Yusuf’s latest album ‘Live at the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music’ was born of his desire to translate for a global audience the rich musical language of cultures stretching from Andalusia, North Africa, and Arabia to Turkey and beyond. His desire is realised here: the music is refined, and whether meditative or ecstatic, it is all connected by remarkable emotional depth of expression. In its melodic Arabic love songs, its rhythmic chants of North African Sufi lodges, its trance-like Turkish ilahis of the whirling dervishes – this is the visionary work of a composer and performer at the top of his game. Directing an international ensemble of master instrumentalists on traditional acoustic instruments – Bağlama, santur, qanun, kemanche, ney and more – and joined by a renowned Moroccan vocal group, in this 16-track album Sami Yusuf delivers all the magic of the live performance that held his Fes audience spellbound.

2019 was Sami’s second time headlining this prestigious festival, the first time was 2009, joining the ranks of earlier headliners such as Ravi Shankar, Paco de Lucia, Youssou N’Dour, Joan Baez, Björk and Ben Harper.

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CREDITS

FOH & Recording Engineer: Sachin Savio
Monitor Engineer: Diego Biagioni

Mixed & Mastered by Vishnu Rajan @ Andante Studios
Video Editing & Postproduction by Omar Al-Balushi @ Andante Studios

Published by Andante Records & Administered by Fairwood Music (UK) Ltd for the World

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