Jon Balke – Nahnou Houm, Siwan | ECM Records
Jon Balke
Nahnou Houm
Siwan
Mona Boutchebak: vocals, oud
Jon Balke: piano, keyboards, percussion
Derya Turkan: kamanche
Pedram Khavar Zamini: tombak
Helga Norbakken: percussion
Bjarte Eike: baroque violin
Alison Luthmers: violin
Øivind Nussle: violin
Milos Valent: viola
Per Buhre: viola
Torbjørn Köhl: viola
Judith Maria Blomsterberg: cello
Mime Brinkmann: cello
Johannes Lundberg: bass
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Their ECM debut, released in 2009, won awards including the Jahrespreis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, the album of the year prize of the German record critics. Now Siwan, the international collective led by Norwegian keyboardist-composer-arranger Jon Balke, is back, rallying its powerful instrumental forces behind a new lead singer, Mona Boutchebak from Algeria. Perceived correspondences between Arabic music, Andalusian classical music and European baroque music fired Jon Balke’s imagination when he started this project a decade ago. To bring t