Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood: Jarak Qaribak

Dudu Tassa

Celebrated singer, musician and producer Dudu Tassa teams up with award-winning composer and guitarist Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead, The Smile) for a new album 'Jarak Qaribak' (arabic for 'Your Friend Is Your Neighbour'), bringing together vocalists and musicians from throughout the Middle East for a very special album of cross-border collaborations. World Circuit Records has made it's reputation by producing some of the finest albums of the past three decades. The label is best known for the Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club album (and associated solo artists Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo and Rubén González), which is the biggest selling world music album of all time and has contributed to the phenomenal rise in popularity of Cuban, as well as Latin American, music. World Circuit is also home to a number of revered African artists including the late Tony Allen (whose Afrobeat-jazz collaboration with Hugh Masekela 'Rejoice' was released to great critical acclaim in March 2020), iconic blues pioneer Ali Farka Touré (whose classic Grammywinning 'Talking Timbuktu' album, recorded with Ry Cooder, brought the label early international acclaim), Malian divas and social activists Oumou Sangaré and Fatoumata Diawara, master kora player Toumani Diabaté, the illustrious Orchestra Baobab and musical iconoclast Cheikh Lô.

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