Joseph & James Tawadros - Visions

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Stop Press : Nominated for ARIA - best World album 13/9/2006............... Brand new duo cd from the talented Tawadros brothers. Joseph - Oud, James - Reg. All compositions by Joseph.

From the "Planet" :

Australia is home to one of the most remarkable younger players of one of the older lutes. The oud is the fretless, Arabic ancestor of the European lute. Egyptian-Australian Joseph Tawadros is already a bona fide virtuoso, in his early twenties.

Many Australians regard it as ‘exotic’, but in the early 21st century the oud is (the guitar aside) almost certainly the world’s most widely-played member of the lute family. An exponent of a refined, ‘erudite’/classical tradition, Joseph is also a musical explorer who plays in enormously varied contexts & places, worldwide.

His new duo CD Visions sees Joseph in a favourite one: in empathic {at times, near-telepathic} duet with his younger brother, James Tawadros. That James was sixteen at the time beggars belief. James turned seventeen in January 2006.

In hands like his, the word ‘humble’ is not an appropriate adjective for the req. Prepare to be amazed at what can be done with a small, seemingly ‘basic’ frame drum/tambourine!

You can learn more about Joseph Tawadros & check his concert dates here: www.josephtawadros.com