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A small seaside town in Tunisia in the 1970s. A boy walks along a deserted shoreline picking up the odds and ends he finds lying around: A broken fishing net; a few discarded sardine cans; spokes from an old bicycle. His heart and mind are full of music and he wants to play. It’s as much as his father can do to put food on the table for Dhafer and his seven brothers and sisters. There certainly isn’t spare money for music lessons, let alone for an instrument. So Dhafer makes his own oud, the traditional middle-Eastern lute, using whatever he can find.
You’ve only got to listen to the achingly beautiful first minute or so of Dhafer Youssef’s last album Digital Prophecy to hear how the passion for music, born in that small Tunisian town, still lives on.
The young Dhafer did what was expected of him and sang, having learnt at the traditional Quran school, but at the same time, he was hearing music on the radio - the only source of entertainment in this small town. “It was just music. That’s all I knew” says Dhafer “I didn’t know what was classical what was jazz and so on. Just music…” And so, on his homemade oud, Dhafer taught himself to play by ear.
One day a friend came back from his travels with an electric guitar and a small toy one for his young nephew. Dhafer borrowed the toy for a week, at the same time secretly yearning to get his hands on the proper instrument. Eventually his friend began to lend it to him for a few days at a time: “days when I didn’t sleep, the time was too precious. I just played.”
You’ve only got to listen to the achingly beautiful first minute or so of Dhafer Youssef’s last album Digital Prophecy to hear how the passion for music, born in that small Tunisian town, still lives on.
The young Dhafer did what was expected of him and sang, having learnt at the traditional Quran school, but at the same time, he was hearing music on the radio - the only source of entertainment in this small town. “It was just music. That’s all I knew” says Dhafer “I didn’t know what was classical what was jazz and so on. Just music…” And so, on his homemade oud, Dhafer taught himself to play by ear.
One day a friend came back from his travels with an electric guitar and a small toy one for his young nephew. Dhafer borrowed the toy for a week, at the same time secretly yearning to get his hands on the proper instrument. Eventually his friend began to lend it to him for a few days at a time: “days when I didn’t sleep, the time was too precious. I just played.”
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Fheelip wrote:
Thank You
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Documento1 wrote:
One of the best voices ive ever heard
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ohh1972 wrote:
___\/___
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furio78 wrote:
Great music, I love it.
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yous1987 wrote:
This dude is amazing... Electronica and Jazz alongside oriental touches with his amazing voice and great oud playing skills.. He must be given more world wide recognition than that.
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lutetiavitch wrote:
amazingly gifted musician
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RustyBlood wrote:
Divine Shadows عمل فنى بديع
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dharma17 wrote:
I"ve met this musician last week he's a very nice and interesting man!
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dharma17 wrote:
I"ve met this musician last week he's a very nice and interesting man!
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ordinaryusacma wrote:
not so bad not so great
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gazaeast wrote:
gift
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hanihihi wrote:
great!
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yvesleigler wrote:
En concert le 7 Avril à l'Institut du monde arabe, Paris !
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Kor_nelia wrote:
muzyka latającej ryby.....przejmująca ...doskonała !
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mistertime wrote:
I' ve the c.d. one of my favourite!
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henrebotha wrote:
Oh. Oh wow. Wow. I need to get my hands on an album. There truly are times when last.fm kicks ass. This is one of them.
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Dominguss wrote:
A present from the gods...
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avivagabriel wrote:
Dhafer's devotional (spiritual) chants and oud playing are unforgettable; I come back to this music again and again. Or am I lured? Does it have an "animus" that can call to those of us who're often struck with longing and awe at the strangeness of being alive?
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suisita wrote:
my long time favourite...happy to see you soon for the second time :) natural mystic... i will never forget the first concert,
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ezzaquark wrote:
enlightened
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Dhafer Youssef
Howard Assembly Room at Opera North, Leeds, United Kingdom
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