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About
Passionate, fiery, tormented. This is the relationship that Hussam Aliwat has had with his Oud since childhood. Hussam Aliwat merges styles and borders in modern and powerful music, driven with passion by an oud that bridges East and West: a thrilling revolution that shakes up jazz, film music and rock. He is one of the proteges of Trio Joubran and Marcel Khalifé. Nevertheless it embodies a new generation, current, cinematic, powerful, accompanied by 2 cellos and a battery.
Self-taught gifted, he transgresses the standards of the oud as other geniuses have broken the codes of their instruments: Piazzolla’s bandoneon, Jimi Hendrix’s guitar and brings together Oud lovers, jazz fans, and fans of alternative rock.
Through his soberly titled first album “BORN NOW” Hussam Aliwat presents emotional, cinematic and dense music, between oriental heritage, polyrhythms, dreamlike pads, intensely rock spirit and jazz modulations.
Press
“Hussam Aliwat has created a magnificent work without weak tracks and with an incredible appeal. Very little music can move so violently. It is full of contrast, but never disjointed. […] Born Now, […] is one of the year’s great experiences in modern jazz and contemporary world music.”
– POV. International, DK
“The sound of his Oud is powerful, almost disturbing, loaded with tension, anger and passion. A sort of breathless chase […] begins as if death were on the heels. The flavors of the Orient are present but distorted like often worrying shadows that stretch on the sand at sunset. An Orient of today, confronted with chaos, danger, exile and hope. […] It’s an explosion of universes, emotions, energy and creativity.”
– La Gazette Blue, FR
“There is magic of his own in his playing, that of great artists, and I certainly wouldn’t risk comparing him to such and such a musician, because Hussam Aliwat is self-sufficient.”
– Paris Move, FR
“He transgresses the norms of the oud as other geniuses have brokes the codes of their instruments: Piazzolla’s bandoneon, Jimi Hendrix’s guitar.”
– CDZ Music, FR