Artist.......: SMADJ
Album........: Selin
Label........: MVS Records
Genre........: Ethnic
Catnr........: MVSBF09058
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Nov.-23-2009
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: myspace.com/jeanpierresmadj
track title time
01. Toi Et Moi 04:03
02. Sel Que J'aime 05:35
03. Geriye 05:21
04. PassionnΘe 05:15
05. Selen 04:19
06. Je T'aprendrai L'amour 03:23
07. Anarouz 04:16
08. ▄c Gⁿn 04:30
09. Tendre 05:24
10. Fougueuse (Live) 09:47
Runtime 51:53 min
Size 73,6 MB
Release Notes:
Jean-Pierre Smadja (Smadj) Tunisian born, Parisian
musician ,Jean-Pierre Smadja (Smadj) grew up
listening to Oriental, Brazilian, funk, soul, and
folk music. Entering a jazz school at age 15 due to
his intense interest in the guitar, Smadjs musical
development came to be characterized by
transforming traditional jazz styles into eclectic
sounds. This interest in the mechanics of making
music led Smadj to pursue a degree in sound
engineering, which led to a fruitful career as a
recording & sound engineer for famous classical and
folk musicians. Releasing his first album in 1994,
it wasnt until 2000 that Smadj became recognized on
an international scale for his signature blending
of acoustic and electronic sounds on Equilibriste,
which would ascend on the European World Music
Charts to the number 4 position. In 2002, Smadj
joined fellow ud magician, French musician Mehdi
Haddab, for a special project that would transport
the oud to the 21st century in DuOuD. Supporting
their triumph of an album with a 2 year world tour,
the album also received 2nd place in the Best Album
category at the prestigious BBC World Music Awards.
In 2003, Smadj joined master percussionist Burhan
╓τal for Burhan ╓τal & The Trakya All Stars
featuring Smadj and in 2005 he stepped behind the
scenes to serve as artistic director for Burhan
╓τals New Dream.He recorded his last album S.O.S
released in december in turkey with 2 turkish
virtuosos Savas Zurnaci and Orhan Osman. Finally
also the album of DuOuD with abdulatif Yagoub
recorded in Yemen was released after a tremendous
work and too much problems with Label Bleu who
didn't support really this production, but we are
proud of this album which represents a true meeting
of culture and a source of many changes in our
life.All the travelling in Yemen to work with these
extraordianry musicians will stay for ever in our
minds.The new album of Trakya all stars(Onyamya
Geldik) proved the interest of Smadj for Gypsies
music and confirmed his habilities to work with
turkish traditional music bringing sounds of west
After all the DuOuds decided to do a new album
concentrating on their new oud sounds and new
electronic universe, rcently released(02/2009), the
album is receiving the aprobation of the critics
and the duet is always on the road Finally Smadj
realized his dream of recording his last album
(Selin) with Erik Truffaz and Talvin Singh for a
repertoire dedicated to his love, the most acoustic
and melodic album of Smadj(out in a few days) Smadj
met also Cem Yildiz and recorded the soundtrack of
the film Muro with him at the end of 2008 and
realized the idea to built a band (Hⁿ) focused on
Alevi traditional music revisited, they just
finished the album Smadj continues making music in
the city where east meets west, Istanbul.