The Other Shore Amir Elsaffar & Rivers of Sound

• 1 Dhuha 12:50
• 2 Transformations 09:54
• 3 Reaching Upward 16:29
• 4 Ashaa 15:24
• 5 Concentric 05:11
• 6 Lightning Flash 08:53
• 7 March 06:00
• 8 Medmi (Epilogue) 04:15
• Total Runtime 01:18:56

Info for The Other Shore

Iraqi-American trumpeter, santur player, vocalist, and composer Amir ElSaffar is a visionary and a pioneer of cross-cultural musical exploration. His six-piece Two Rivers Ensemble, formed in 2006, was among the first projects to combine jazz with Iraqi Māqams. In 2015, ElSaffar expanded the group to form the 17 member Rivers of Sound. The orchestra’s 2017 release Not Two (New Amsterdam) was described by the New York Times as ‘an arresting debut album... full of momentum, but not in the way of a single moving thing. Instead, it seems to flow and spill across bounds’ and Pitchfork Magazine called it ‘... a towering statement of purpose—wise to many traditions, even while it remains accessible to anyone.’ With The Other Shore, Rivers of Sound’s second release, ElSaffar expands the group’s musical palette, exploring new territories, with complex rhythmic cells and microtonal melodies melding together in lush improvised textures created by the unique timbres of instruments and chemistry between the all-star musicians that make up this orchestra.

Amir ElSaffar, trumpet, santur
Carlo DeRosa, acoustic bass
Craig Taborn, piano
Dena ElSaffar, violin, jowza
Fabrizio Cassol, alto saxophone
George Ziadeh, oud, vocals
Jason Adasiewicz, vibraphone
JD Parran, bass saxophone, clarinet
Miles Okazaki, guitar
Mohammed Saleh, oboe, English horn
Naseem AlAtrash, cello
Nasheet Waits, drums
Ole Mathisen, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Rajna Swaminathan, mridangam
Tareq Abboushi, buzuq
Tim Moore, percussion, dumbek, frame drum
Zafer Tawil, percussion, oud

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