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Majid Bekkas (Morocco) – the oud and guembri virtuoso playing the Desert blues!!

Musician pick up by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Majid Bekkas, oud and guembri or sintir virtuoso, guitar professor and singer, has long been a star in his home country Morocco. Over the last few years, he has found his way into the European jazz scene through his collaborations with Archie Shepp, Louis Sclavis, Flavio Boltro, Joachim Kuhn or Klaus Doldinger.

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Linebreak: Poetics of Iran in Brooklyn, New York.


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Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Let me introduce a new Iranian-Turkish music and poetry project from Brooklyn, New York: Linebreak. 

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