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20u30 - DORIAN DUMONT PLAYS APHEX TWIN (fr)

Richard D. James – Aphex Twin to the friends – is sometimes referred to as the prodigy of electronic music. His music is without a doubt groundbreaking, incredibly influential, and more exciting than the entire EDM scene that is marinated in one and the same wok. AFX (or one of his 100 aliases, including Polygon Window or Bradley Strider) actually celebrates his 50th birthday on the eve of the Feeërieën. Reason enough for AB to crown the work of this 'MDMA Mozart'.

Enter: the classically trained pianist Dorian Dumont (see too: the futuristic jazz of ECHT!) who landed in Brussels about ten years ago from Montpellier, where he studied jazz and free improvisation. He has coupled his unconditional love of Aphex Twin with his grand piano and that recently resulted in the album ‘APHEXionS’. De Morgen on that: "Dumont forces Aphex-fans to the edge of their chair by radically breaking open the music". Aphex Twin actually meets modern classical and the free structure of jazz.

Picture: Sébastien Desprez

21u30 - A TRIBUTE TO OUM KALTHOUM - KARIMA EL FILLALI & AMSTERDAMS ANDALUSISCH ORKEST (nl)

Opera star Maria Callas called her "the incomparable voice". Bob Dylan sniffed: "She’s great. Really great". And Bono (U2) and Ibrahim Maalouf humbly kneel before her. It was not without reason that Egypt’s Oum Kalthoum was known as the "Star of the Orient" and "The Grand Dame of Arab Singing". She even managed to sell more albums than The Beatles. Oum Kalthoum surrounded herself with the best composers and poets of her time. Her glory days (1923-1973) lasted almost a half century and her music is still extremely popular even now.

Enter: Karima el Fillali, a Dutch-Moroccan singer with a great love of "tarab": music that enraptures the listener. Her love of Oum Kalthoum seems unconditional. The manner in which she interprets her heroine can even be called ethereal. The Correspondent summed it up nicely: "Als ik Karima hoor zingen, lijkt het alsof ik gehypnotiseerd word, in trance raak, ontaard, houvast verlies". Those who see the AB recordings (together with the Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra) from earlier this year will be instantly hooked. Don’t be fooled: this is exactly why the endless repeat button was invented.

Picture: Meesterwerk