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[Sama'a] (Audition)
Artist
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[Ahmed]
ReleaseProduct
[Sama'a] (Audition)
Label
OTOroku
Catalogue Number
ROKU046
Release Date
October 21, 2025

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Many acts operate in tribute to their forebears, but quartet أحمد [Ahmed] (formed by Seymour Wright: saxophone, Pat Thomas: piano, Joel Grip: bass & Antonin Gerbal: drums) take their reverent studiousness to the next level. In their reimagining of bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik’s confluence of cultural musics as a living organism they bridge a unique continuation of his unifying jazz mission. Finally, after almost a decade of releases that rediscover his work, they arrive at his solo debut album Jazz Sahara, morphing it into a double LP of complex arrangements out on the bastion of contemporary jazz and improv, Cafe Oto's own OTOroku imprint. Everything seems quite liquid here as saxophone turns into guttural textures while both bowed double bass thrum and agile pizzicato untangles thorny thickets of drums, met by piano in speeding trains of harmony, exhilarating and stampeding.

سماع [Sam'aa] (Audition) arrives in a gatefold, reverse board sleeve with liners by Fred Moten and designed by Maja Larrson.
Recorded and mixed by Benedic Lamdin on February 28th, 2025 Fish Factory Studios, London.
Mastering and lacquers cut by Andreas LUPO Lubich.
Cover photo ‘Arteries, New York, 1964’ courtesy of the Estate of Evelyn Hofer.
Produced by Seymour Wright/OTOROKU.

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Digital Tracklist

Disc 1

  1. 1 Ya Annas [Oh, People] 18:50 Buy

    Ya Annas [Oh, People]

  2. 2 Isma'a [Listen] 14:24 Buy

    Isma'a [Listen]

Disc 2

  1. 1 El Haris [Anxious] 16:01 Buy

    El Haris [Anxious]

  2. 2 Farah 'Alaiyna [Joy Upon Us] 18:46 Buy

    Farah 'Alaiyna [Joy Upon Us]

[Ahmed]

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