ZARANI (cycle)
60′ – 2002
cycle for contralto, oud, piano and percussion
Zàrani (cycle)
Zàrani is exactly between the spell and the poetic collection. Fadia Tomb El-Hage, offers her rare, dark and feline stamp to these Arab-Andalusian mouwashahs, some very old, written or rethought by Zad Moultaka, chiseled with lute and percussion, prolonged by the presence of the piano. Commissioned by the Beiteddine Festival (Lebanon 2002), this work, which will be re-enacted in France in 2004, marks a turning point in the musician’s writing, a subtle synthesis between Western writing, melodic linearity and the scales of the Oriental modes. The art of detail is that of these intricate embroidery. Hence these feelings of drunkenness, at the edge of the sensual and the spiritual, hence this feeling of spell.
Zàrani (Mouwashahs el Haramlek)
sung in Arabic
Premiere July 7, 2002 at the Beiteddine Festival, Lebanon
by Fadia Tomb el Hage singer, Jihad el Chemaly oud, Pierre Rigopoulos percussion and Zad Moultaka piano.
Zad Moultaka composition.
October 5, 2002, Cahors, France, by Fadia Tomb el Hage, singer, Jihad el-Chemaly, oud, Pierre Rigopoulos, percussions and Zad Moultaka, piano.
June 24, 2003 Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy by Jahida Wehbe, singer, Jihad el-Chemaly, oud, Pierre Rigopoulos, percussions et Zad Moultaka, piano
July 7, 2003 Festival Jerasch, Jordanie par Jahida Wehbe, chant, Jihad el-Chemaly, oud, Pierre Rigopoulos, percussions and Zad Moultaka, piano
November 18, 2003 Café de la Danse, Les Belles Nuits du Ramadan, Paris, France by Fadia Tomb el Hage, singing, Jihad el-Chemaly, oud, Pierre Rigopoulos, percussions and Zad Moultaka, piano.
March 24, 2004 Unesco, Paris, France by Fadia Tomb el Hage, singing, Jihad el-Chemaly, oud, Pierre Rigopoulos, percussions and Zad Moultaka, piano
April 27, 2004 Assembly Hall, Beirut, Lebanon by Fadia Tomb el Hage, singing, Jihad el-Chemaly, oud, Pierre Rigopoulos, percussions and Zad Moultaka, piano
July 9, 2004 Festival d’Assier, France by Jahida Wehbe, singing, Jihad el-Chemaly, oud, Pierre Rigopoulos, percussions and Zad Moultaka, piano
November 12, 2004 Bordeaux Jazz Festival, Bordeaux, France by Fadia Tomb el Hage, singing, Florentino Calvo, oud and mandoles, Françoise Rivalland, percussions and Zad Moultaka, piano
December 3, 2004 MC2, Festival 38e Rugissants, Grenoble, France by Fadia Tomb el Hage, singing, Florentino Calvo, oud and mandoles, Françoise Rivalland, percussions and Zad Moultaka, piano
December 11, 2004 Centre Flagey, Bruxelles, Belgium by Fadia Tomb el Hage, chant, Florentino Calvo, oud and mandoles, Pierre Rigopoulos, percussions and Zad Moultaka, piano
July 20, 2005 Festival de Saintes, France by Fadia Tomb el Hage, singing, Florentino Calvo, oud and mandoles, Pierre Rigopoulos, percussions and Zad Moultaka, piano
September 29, 2005 Nijmegen, Hollandepar Fadia Tomb el Hage, singing, Florentino Calvo, oud and mandoles, Pierre Rigopoulos, percussions and Zad Moultaka, piano
October 9, 2005 Fondation Royaumont, Paris by Fadia Tomb el Hage, singing, Florentino Calvo, oud and mandoles, Pierre Rigopoulos, percussions and Zad Moultaka, piano
October 14, 2005 Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France by Fadia Tomb el Hage, singing, Florentino Calvo, oud and mandoles, Pierre Rigopoulos, percussions and Zad Moultaka, piano
November 28, 2005 AUB, Beirut, Lebanon by Fadia Tomb el Hage, singing, Florentino Calvo, oud and mandoles, Pierre Rigopoulos, percussions and Zad Moultaka, piano
March 28, 2006 Théâtre de la Coupe d’or, Rochefort, France by Fadia Tomb el Hage, Florentino Calvo, Frédéric Daumas and Zad Moultaka
March 30, 2006 Théâtre de La Blaiserie, Poitiers, France by Fadia Tomb el Hage, Florentino Calvo, Frédéric Daumas et Zad Moultaka
Commissioned the Beiteddine Festival
© ŠamaŠ éditions musicales 2004
l’empreinte digitale ED13163 – 2003 / Socadisc
