Masaa
| Masaa | |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Jazz , Classical Arabic Music |
| Website | www.masaa-music.de |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Rabih Lahoud |
| Marcus Rust | |
| Reentko Dirks | |
| Demian Kappenstein | |
| former members | |
| Clemens Pötzsch (until 2018) | |
Masaa is a Germany- based band that performs world jazz with Arabic song lyrics.
history
The group has existed as a quartet since 2012 . Markus Stockhausen introduced the singer Rabih Lahoud to an already existing trio around the Dresden trumpeter Marcus Rust. A performance by Masaa at the Jazzfest Berlin in November 2012 was recorded and broadcast on the HR2 channel on March 16, 2013. The group also gave concerts in Africa and Lebanon. In the summer of 2015 the group worked with the Israeli singer Yael Deckelbaum. In 2019 Reentko Dirks switched to the double neck guitar for the pianist Clemens Pötzsch.
style
The lyrics focus on the poems of the singer Rabih Lahouds. The aim of the group is to "break away from the oriental clichés".
Naming
“Masaa” is Arabic for “evening”. The singer Rabih Lahoud considers the evening to be the most magical time of the day. The band's music testifies to “the interplay between day and night”.
Awards
Masaa received the Bremen Jazz Prize in September 2012 as a band that plays “jazz with ethnic claims”. The band won the audience award at the Creole Festival in 2013 . At the TFF Rudolstadt she was awarded the Sponsorship Ruth World Music Prize in 2015.
Discography
- Freedom Dance ( Traumton Records , 2013)
- Afkar (Traumton, 2014)
- Outspoken (Traumton, 2017)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rabih Lahouds Masaa, Jazzfest Berlin 2012, Jazzfest @ A-Trane, November 2012 ( memento from July 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 3, 2015
- ↑ Masaa Band Profile at TTF , accessed on July 3, 2015
- ↑ a b website of "jazzahead!" , accessed May 20, 2013
- ↑ Bremen Jazz Prize endowed with 10,000 euros for Masaa
- ^ Ruth Prize Winner 2015 , accessed on July 3, 2015