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Reviews (4)
Pitchfork
d. 9. Dec. 2016
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Kevin Lozano
d. 9. Dec. 2016
"Damon Albarn and Africa Express organized this concert with 50 musicians from the Syrian National Orchestra. Featuring Julia Holter, Albarn, and others, it reaffirms that art at its best is a gesture of empathy".
The guardian
d. 22. Dec. 2016
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Robin Denselow
d. 22. Dec. 2016
"While their country collapsed into bloodshed and chaos, members of the Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music were reunited for one of the most emotional tours of the summer ... This live album starts and ends with fine performances from the orchestra, with their sturdy vocal work matched against flutes, strings and percussion. But on many of the tracks here they act as a classy, sensitive backing band for Damon Albarn, Paul Weller, Rachid Taha, or the Mauritanian star Noura Mint Seymali. It's an entertaining, impressively varied set ... But the Syrian orchestra surely deserved a full album of their own material".
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d. 9. Dec. 2016
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Emil Eggert Scherrebeck
d. 9. Dec. 2016
"Det syriske nationalorkester, der nu slet og ret går under navnet The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians (...) havde (...) hjemme i operahuset i Damaskus, men med krigen er medlemmerne blevet spredt ud over hele kloden. I sommer lykkedes det (...) at samle musikerne til en række koncerter, blandt andet på engelske Glastonbury og på Roskilde Festival. Koncerterne blev optaget, og optagelserne er nu samlet på dette livealbum ... Hvor jeg måske kan blive en smule overrasket over, at pladen ikke i højere grad får den undtagelsestilstand, som musikerne lever under (...) til at træde frem for mig som lytter, er der alligevel noget monumentalt vigtigt over denne plade. Den er et sonisk mindesmærke for diasporaen, der med mellemøstlige musikalske krummelurer blander smerten og den trodsige livsglæde i den vedvarende katastrofes virvar og bringer hele dette sammensurium ind i de vestlige såvel som de østlige stuer. Ganske enkelt en smuk præstation".
Mojo
2017 January
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David Hutcheon
2017 January
"If the idea of an album of orchestral Middle Eastern music doesn't appeal, the majesty of Old Damascus may involve a conversion of sorts; the debate should be ended with the intense rhythm of "Al Ajahleh". Guests Seckou Keita and Bassekou Kouyaté emphasise that this is an African Express project. Yet it's the adaptations of Western tracks that are the key to the album: Paul McCartney's Blackbird has a terrific choral addition; Julia Holter's "Feel You" benefits from massed strings and subtler percussion; the Arabic flavours of Blur's "Out Of Time" are heightened. Definitely one of 2016's better achievements".