Artist: Dhafer Youssef
Genre(s):
Electronic
Jazz
Discography:
Digital Prophecy
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Electric Sufi
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
Singer, composer, and oud role player Dhafer Youssef was born in 1967 in Teboulba, Tunisia. The oud is an Arabic luting, a string pawn that can reach a beautiful healthy from those wHO know how to passe-partout it.
Youssef began tattle when he was only five-years-old. Since and then he has performed for audiences in Tunisia, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, and other countries. He has appeared with his have ensembles and recorded deuce albums with them, one in 1993 and the other ternary years later. Youssef's music combines Sufi tradition, reality, mystic, and jazz influences with Arabic lyricism. In 1999, Enja Records released Youssef's third record album, Malak, which includes the songs "A Kind of Love," "Tarannoum," and "Eklil." Youssef provided vocals and oud for the record album and was accompanied by such well-known artists as fiddler Zoltan Lantos, bassist Achim Tang, tabla and dolak player Jatinder Thakur, tambourine role player Carlo Rizzo, bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons, and drummer Patrice Héral. In 2002, Youssef released Electrical Sufi on Enja and added electronic elements and funky grooves to his genre-bending effectual.
