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Dhafer Youssef: Birds Requiem

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Simon Sweetman
Jan 26, 2014
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Dhafer Yousef

Dhafer Youssef

Birds Requiem

Sony Music

Youssef is known as one of the world’s great oud players - the oud being a relative of the lute, an 11-stringed fretless relative of the lute - and here with this song-cycle of stirring-the-soul music, hints of jazz, touches of world-music flavours, Dhafer Youssef has released his finest work. The music soars - and t…

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