Sufi Books & Musics

British axeman Richard Thompson turns it up a notch

CD and tour.

Drift caught up with the effusive Thompson to talk about Celtic influences, Beyonce, the Queen of England and the real meaning of Islam.

   

Drift: Your past tours have often been themed, Richard. Is there any such plan on the current tour with your Electric Trio?

Richard Thompson: Hopefully we’ll be playing some new material we haven’t done before, some selections off the last album, and then a whole bunch of stuff going back through the years. Back through the decades, actually — help!

   

Drift: You’ve been playing music for nearly 50 years. What first sparked your interest in the guitar?

RT: The guitar was a popular instrument when I was a small kid in the ‘50s, and I wanted one but no one took me seriously. I saw Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly and on TV looking very cool with guitar, and I finally got one when I was 11 years old. I first played in an instrumental band doing The Ventures kind of stuff, then I was in a school band for a few years, and then at 18 I turned professional in the psychedelic clubs around London.

Source: St. Augustine Record

Dhafer Youssef - Electric Sufi

by sue.miod@gmail.com (MiOd)

Dhafer Youssef was born in Teboulba, Tunisia in 1967, composer, singer and oud player Dhafer Youssef has lived and worked in Vienna, Austria since 1990. During this period he had the opportunity to perform his music on stages in Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland and other European countries as well as his native Tunisia (where he started singing in the Islamic tradition at age 5) .Dhafer has worked with Renaud Garcia-Fons, Markus Stockhausen, Carlo Rizzo, Nguyên Lê, Jatinder Thakur, Sainkho Namchylak, Paolo Fresu, Arto Tuncboyacian, Linda Sharrock, Wolfgang Puschnig, Christian Muthspiel, Jamey Haddad, Iva Bittova, Tom Cora and other great improvisers influenced by world music concepts. He also formed his own ensemble with which he has recorded two previous CDs in 1993 and 1996. Dhafer's music is rooted in the Sufi tradition and other mystical music but has always been open to ideas from any level of musical culture as well as the jazz scene....

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