Name: Electric Sufi
Brand: Allegro Corporation ***
SKU: 277782
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Performer Notes

Personnel: Dhafer Youssef (vocals, oud, percussion, effects); Markus Stockhausen (trumpet, flugelhorn); Deepak Ram (bansuri); Wolfgang Muthspiel (guitar); Dieter Ilg (acoustic bass); Doug Wimbish (electric bass, electronics); Mino Cinelu (drums, percussion, effects); Will Calhoun (drums, loops); Rodericke Packe (effects).
Recorded at Fifth House Studios, Brooklyn, New York; Loft, Cologne, Germany; and On-The-Fly, Paris, France in November and December 2000.
Personnel: Dhafer Youssef (vocals, oud); Wolfgang Muthspiel (guitar); Deepak Ram (bansuri); Markus Stockhausen (trumpet, piccolo trumpet, flugelhorn); Dieter Ilg (acoustic bass); Doug Wimbish (electric bass, electronics); Mino Cinelu (drums, percussion, sound effects); Will Calhoun (drums, loops).
Audio Mixer: Steve Arguelles.
Recording information: Fifth House Studios, Brooklyn, NY (11/2000-12/2000); Loft, Cologne, Germany (11/2000-12/2000); Paris, France (11/2000-12/2000).
Editor: Steve Arguelles.
Photographers: Caroline Mardok; Hyou Vielz; Ssirus Pakzad.
Unknown Contributor Role: Dhafer Youssef.
Arranger: Dhafer Youssef.
Tunisian-born oud performer/vocalist Dhafer Youssef attains a happy medium while integrating the oud (an Arabic lute instrument) with jazzy grooves and wide-ranging improvisational forums. On this outing, the artist crafts an appealing worldbeat/jazz scenario partly due to his nimble plucking and mood-evoking unison choruses with trumpeter Markus Stockhausen. There's also a drum'n'bass element here, as the leader utilizes the talents of ex-Living Colour rhythmic aces Will Calhoun (drums) and Doug Wimbish (bass). Jazz guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel adds textural patterns to many of these pieces while embarking on a pleasant mainstream jazz-based solo passage on the piece entitled "Farha." Youssef also displays a multi-octave vocal range on several tracks -- as he renders wordless vocals that often conjure up notions of religiously inclined mantras. A good portion of this affair features lightly rumbling percussion vamps intertwined with North African modalities and alternating dialogue among the soloists. A nice effort that ages well upon repeated spins. ~ Glenn Astarita

Album: Electric Sufi
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Mandakini
2)	Yabay
3)	Electric Sufi
4)	Oil on Water
5)	PriŠre de l'Absent, La
6)	Man of Wool
7)	Nuit Sacr‚e, La
8)	Nouba
9)	Farha
10)	Nafha
11)	Al-Hallaj
12)	Suraj
13)	Langue Muette

Album: Electric Sufi
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Mandakini
2)	Yabay
3)	Electric Sufi
4)	Oil on Water
5)	PriŠre de l'Absent, La
6)	Man of Wool
7)	Nuit Sacr‚e, La
8)	Nouba
9)	Farha
10)	Nafha
11)	Al-Hallaj
12)	Suraj
13)	Langue Muette