Souvenance (Reissue) LimitedStock Martina Topley-Bird

Martina Topley-Bird

You can hear it in their music

Born in Hastings in 1935

the album was recorded four months after the band's debut 'Please Please Me

Souvenance (Reissue) LimitedStock Martina Topley-BirdReissue! The music of 'Souvenance,' by turns graceful, hypnotic, and taut and starkly dramatic, was recorded in 2014 six years after oud master Anouar Brahem's last ECM album, 'The Astounding Eyes of Rita'. "It took a long time to write this music," he acknowledges, noting that his emotional world had been usurped by the unfolding story of political upheaval sweeping first through Tunisia then through the neighbouring countries. Extraordinary waves of