Peter Brötzmann, Majid Bekkas, Hamid Drake – Catching Ghosts (Live) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Peter Brötzmann, Majid Bekkas, Hamid Drake – Catching Ghosts (Live) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:54 minutes | 850 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ACT Music

The 2022 Jazzfest Berlin performance by revered, iconoclastic reedist Peter Brötzmann, Moroccan Gnaoua adept Majid Bekkas playing the two-stringed, camelskin-backed guembre, and Chicago-bred drummer Hamid Drake, documented as Catching Ghosts, is historic.
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NES, Black String, Majid Bekkas, Nguyên Lê – Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic X: East – West (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

NES, Black String, Majid Bekkas, Nguyên Lê – Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic X: East – West (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:28 minutes | 574 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music

‘East meets West’ was the central theme in the life of Nesuhi Ertegün (1917-1989). He grew up as the son of the Turkish Ambassador in Washington, and Nesuhi himself was to become an ambassador too: one of the most important producers and advocates that jazz has ever had. On the 30th anniversary of his death, Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic curator Siggi Loch dedicated an evening to commemorating this friend and mentor who had been like a father to him. For Nesuhi, jazz had no borders; this concert was a posthumous validation of the far-sightedness of that vision.

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Majid Bekkas – Magic Spirit Quartet (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Majid Bekkas – Magic Spirit Quartet (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:18 minutes | 589 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music

Trance, ritual, mysticism, psychedelia, magic…however one chooses to describe the way that gnawa music affects people, there can be no denying the fascination for it which reaches right across the world. And Majid Bekkas, one of the most dazzling exponents of modern gnawa is also probably the musician who has managed to find the most varied and interesting ways to make this music interact with other genres. Now, with Magic Spirit Quartet, he has had taken the boldly imaginative step of building a bridge to connect North Africa and Scandinavia, to align the ancestral with the ambient. It is an inspired move which seems to catch the very spirit of 21st century jazz.

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