Dhafer Youssef

Dhafer Youssef is a Tunisian oud master, vocalist, and composer. Considered a gift to modern jazz by many critics, his restless creativity actively pursues a union of Eastern and Western musical traditions with a complex architectural approach to composition and improvisation. His boundary-blurring music weds modern jazz to the rhythms and modes of North Africa, the classical music of Pakistan and India, electronics, and deep, soulful Mediterranean grooves. 1998's Malak combined Middle Eastern harmony to vanguard jazz. 2001's Electric Sufi and 2003's Digital Prophecy explored ...