Finally, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center is pleased to invite you to «Wa» album release concert by Kamilya Jubran and Werner Hasler. There will be two concerts on Friday 31/1 and Saturday 1/2 at 7p.m, part of their tour around the arab countries.
**Tickets price: 80 nis** to support cover their tour costs
* *We will soon announce the date of selling the tickets on our Facebook page, keep in touch
*Please buy your tickets beforehand, due to the limited number of tickets. We apologize for there will be no ticket sale at the door on the day of the event.
The album unravels a musical universe of possibilities; “a unison of timbres, cultures complementing, the complicity of verses, and modes and languages confronting each other” in the duo’s own way of communicating respective origins and contemporaneity. Lyrical, within a sound full of contrast and ornamentation, they pursue an expansion of their repertoire with imaginative interpretation and improvisation.
Organized by Simsara Music Almoharek Live Musici with support from Pro Helvetia Cairo - Swiss Arts Council
Kamilya Jubran (singer, oud) and Werner Hasler (trumpet, electronics) have been collaborating since 2002. Their first collaboration Mahattaat was their earliest experiment into bringing together disparate cultural and artistic roots. Their next collaboration, Wameedd, released in 2004, combined Jubran’s vocal skill and limitless imagination with Hasler’s melodies and his original aesthetics in electronic music. The duo then released Wanabni in 2010 followed by Wasl in 2016, featuring French double bass player Sarah Murcia.
Kamilya Jubran:
After her long career as the lead singer and qanoun player with the monumental Palestinian group Sabreen, Kamilya Jubran moved to Europe in 2002 and continued her search for an original musical expression on vocals and oud, whilst exploring new spaces and horizons for her compositions and texts through the various projects she instigates and is part of.
Werner Hasler:
A Swiss/Liechtenstein composer, trumpet player and electronic musician. Hasler also lectures on Electronics & Music at Hochschule der Künste in Bern. Besides his long standing collaboration with Jubran, he runs The Outer String, a loose formation of cello, trumpet, electronics and drums. In the past years he has been working in various collaborations (with Hugo Ryser, Carlo Niederhauser, Vincent Courtois and many more) on hybrids of exhibition/installation and live performance.