Kinan Azmeh, clarinet – NDR Bigband 2021
1 Clarinet Concerto
2 The Canteen / featuring Fiete Felsch (alto saxophone) & Bodek Janke (tabla)
3 The Little Red Riding Hood / featuring Dan Gottshall (trombone) & Luigi Grasso (bass clarinet)
4 And We Are All Optimistic / featuring Florian Weber (piano)
5 Daraa (based on a folk tune) / featuring Stefan Lottermann (trombone)
6 Jisreen / featuring Frank Delle (tenor saxophone) &Ingolf Burkhardt (flugelhorn)
7 Rituals / featuring Roland Cabezas-Voigt (guitar)
8 Love on 139th Street in D / Kinan Azmeh, clarinet | NDR Bigband
All compositions by Kinan Azmeh | Arranged and conducted by Wolf Kerschek
I was the Damascene in New York and the New Yorker in Damascus.
I am now more interested in being the New Yorker in New York and the Damascene in Damascus…
Both cities with all their contrasting qualities are intellectually stimulating to me. Places, people, nature, tragedies and celebrations, all of these elements have found their way into the music I create.
Being in a constant state of FLOW is now my new zone of comfort.”
Kinan Azmeh
