Samir, Wissam and Adnan Joubran come from a family of oud makers and players in its fourth generation. The brothers from Nazareth combine the maqam tradition with jazz, blues and rock. At Echoes of Peace in 2024, they set poems by Mahmoud Darwish to music for a charity concert.
With jazzhane
- 15.06.2024 Echoes of Peace, Volkshaus Zurich
About
Three brothers descending from a family of «Oud» makers and players for four generations: the great-grand-father, the grand-father, the father, and now, Samir, Wissam, and Adnan from Nazareth have transformed the instrument into a passion, a skill, a life story.
Gifted with extraordinary talents and a love for their music, the brothers profoundly understand how to blend the traditional maqams - the melodic, modal traditions of Arabic classical music - with contemporary jazz, blues, and rock.
The Oud progressions in their songs take their audiences on a captivating journey: the melodies are accompanied by additional percussion techniques we usually know from flamenco virtuosos, gradually increasing their audiences’ heartbeat, the result is as hypnotic as it is transformative.