Amir El-Saffar - Two Rivers

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Amir El-Saffar
Two Rivers

Album US 2007 on Pi Recordings label
Jazz (Free Jazz, Contemporary Jazz)

Recorded at Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, New York, April 17 and 21, 2007. Mastered at Turtletone Studio. Acknowledgements: The world premiere in March, 2006 of Two Rivers was made possible by a commission from the Painted Bride in Philadelphia. Additional compositions were added in September, 2006 after a second commission from the Festival of New Trumpet Music in New York.

Musicians

	Amir El-Saffar tr, voc, *1977 US composed by, producer, trumpet, santoor, vocals, album by
	Rudresh Mahanthappa as, *1971 US alto saxophone
	Carlo DeRosa b, *1970 US bass
	Nasheet Waits dr, *1971 US drums
	Tareq Abboushi fl, bvoc, *1978 US percussion, buzuq, frame drum
	Nicole Lecorgne photography by, band
	Zafer Tawil violin, oud, goblet drum, dumbek

Producers

Whirlwind Creative design

Michael Marciano engineer

Seth Rosner executive-producer

Yulun Wang executive-producer, producer

Michael Fossenkemper mastered by

Jürgen Forster photography by

Composers

Amir El-Saffar

Album Tracks

No	Title	Artist	Duration
1	Menba' (Maqam Bayat) / Jourjina	Amir El-Saffar	11:59
2	Hemayoun	Amir El-Saffar	8:46
3	Shatt Al-Arab (Maqam Hadidi)	Amir El-Saffar	6:50
4	Flood (Maqam Hijaz Kar)	Amir El-Saffar	7:33
5	Awj Intro	Amir El-Saffar	2:11
6	Khosh Reng (Maqam Awj)	Amir El-Saffar	7:49
7	Lami Intro	Amir El-Saffar	3:26
8	Diaspora (Maqam Lami)	Amir El-Saffar	5:26
9	Blood And Ink (Maqam Awshar) / Aneen (Maqam Mukhalif)	Amir El-Saffar	11:54
10	The Blues In E Half-Flat	Amir El-Saffar	5:29

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Acknowledgements

To all the music fans that are contributing on Discogs, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia. Thanks to Franz Flückiger for providing Storygram used to visualize band membership.

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