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Tarek Yamani & Yacine Boulares WAIYK at Habibi Festival 2023 with Sam Minaie on bass and Jong Kuk Kim on drums
Tarek Yamani & Yacine Boulares WAIYK at Habibi Festival 2023 with Sam Minaie on bass and Jong Kuk Kim on drums
Yacine Boularès presenting his latest project, Suite for Abu Sadiya in this 360 video of his David Rubenstein Atrium performance. featuring Vincent Segal & Nasheet Waits. April 19th 2018
US Release tour of ABU SADIYA - April 18-21st 2018
Live recording of the song Bahriyya on Mayssa Issa's Music hour.
JANUARY 2017
My new album Abu Sadiya is out in the world!
...and the press talks about it:
"...une scintillante suite instrumentale, toute en fluidité et couleurs mordorées." Patrick Labesse
"Jazz ALBUM OF THE WEEK": ce trio atypique de virtuose tisse avec finesse le lien entre les cultures musicales d'afrique du Nord et subsaharienne, entre le jazz et la transe du stambeli"
DECEMBER 2016
PROUD TO BE A RECIPIENT OF THE ARAB FUND FOR ART AND CULTURE FOR MY NEW TRIO PROJECT WITH CELLIST VINCENT SEGAL & DRUMMER NASHEET WAITS.
ALBUM release january 25 2017 at l'alhambra (Paris)
OCTOBER 2015
HOnored to be the recipient of the French American jazz Exchange Grant for my new trio project with cellist vincent segal & drummer Nasheet waits
Our trio will compose and record original music re-appropriating the forgotten Stambeli repertoire. Stambeli is a healing trance music created by the descendants of Sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia. Our compositions will form a series of variations on the legend of the hunter Abu Sadiya. In his wandering search for his enslaved daughter, Abu Sadiya danced and sang his sorrow in the streets of Tunis thus becoming the first musician of Stambeli and personifying the memory of Sub-Saharan slaves in Tunisia.
Recording for Placido Domingo's Encanto del Mar- Sony Classical 2014
When I was a student at the New School for Jazz in NY, I had the chance to study with Robert Sadin. He was then teaching a wonderful class called Special Topics. Every semester was dedicated to a different classical piece: Debussy's Pelleas & Mellisandre and Bach's Cantata bwv 82 Ich Habe Genug. We were studying the pieces in depth, analyzing, discussing the progressions, the emotional quality of each change, playing excerpts and finally writing songs inspired by these masterpieces. I remember being transformed by Robert's perspective on music and by the albums he had produced ( some of my longtime favorites such as Wayne Shorter's Alegria ).
Robert and I kept in touch but it's only three years after graduation that I got a phone call: "Yacine! Are you available second 1/2 of february?"...It's only after a few months that I discovered he had invited me to join his musician's family along with Vincent Segal, Chico Pinheiro, Mark Feldman, Patrick Messina, Bridget Kibbey, Rhani Khrija and Ira Coleman to be part of a very small ensemble for Placido Domingo's newest album. Working with these musicians has been the most stimulating experience of my young career and I will always remember the feeling of playing a unison with both Mark Feldman and Placido Domingo: "Samvadi" as classical Indian musicians say. "God is in the note"
