Following her outstanding performance with the cross-cultural, century-spanning ensemble of Norwegian keyboardist/composer Jon Balke's Siwan (ECM, 2009), it's no surprise that the German label has ...

Arco Iris (Rainbow). It celebrates many musical styles and musical psyches, conjoining them like few albums do. Part of the reason why Arco Iris is so diverse comes from Arabic-Andalusian history.

On her new album, the singer mines the rich musical pasts of two Mediterranean countries. Amina Alaoui: Swirling Sounds From Spain And Morocco Amina Alaoui: Swirling Sounds From Spain And Morocco ...

A new CD by Norwegian composer Jon Balke draws its inspiration from the mixture of religions and ethnicities found in medieval Spain. But the album, Siwan,, is really about negotiating boundaries in ...

Following her outstanding performance with the cross-cultural, century-spanning ensemble of Norwegian keyboardist/composer Jon Balke's Siwan (ECM, 2009), it's no surprise that the German label has ...

Amina Alaoui is a Moroccan-born singer trained in both Moroccan and Western classical music. She lives in Spain now, and her first recording under her own name, Arco Iris, meditates on the ebb and ...

Such is the case with this sumptuous and extraordinary delight from Moroccan musician, scholar and singer Amina Alaoui. Born in Fez, Alaoui studied Gharnati (Arabic for Granada) style music there ...

The Moroccan-born singer Amina Alaoui’s new album could not be more on trend, with its mix of mediaeval mysticism from multiple traditions (St Teresa and the Al Andalus poets) and a Convivencian sound ...

On her new album, the singer mines the rich musical pasts of two Mediterranean countries. Amina Alaoui is a Moroccan-born singer trained in both Moroccan and Western classical music. She lives in ...

Amina Alaoui's new album is called Arco Iris, Spanish for "Rainbow." Amina Alaoui is a Moroccan-born singer trained in both Moroccan and Western classical music. She lives in Spain now, and her first ...