The Three Cultures Foundation will participate in the Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla
The Three Cultures Foundation is taking part in the Seville Flamenco Biennial with two shows by two well-known artists: De Anatolia a Andalucía, by the Turkish guitarist Berk Gürman (on 14 September) and Aficionado, by the Moroccan lute player Alaa Zouiten, who will be accompanied by the Algerian singer Mona Boutchebak (on 21 September).
The shows will take place at the Three Cultures Foundation and represent the love for flamenco of artists who have crossed geographical and musical borders to embrace this art in their own music and offer a beautiful mix of sounds with the beat and duende that each brings from their own land.
Berk Gürman. Musician and artist, he offers a flamenco-folklore oriental style. Besides being a singer, he is an instrumentalist and arranger, creator of his own musical style, communicates and transmits like an old guru and accompanies himself with the guitar, making a journey from the folklore of the oldest east (Anatolia) to the flamenco of the purest west (Andalusia). Raised in Turkey, Istanbul, he plays guitar since he was a child and completed his studies at the Pera Güzel Sanatlar High School and sound engineering at the Bilgi University. He released his first album KISMET at the age of 25.
Alaa Zouiten is a renowned lute player born in Casablanca, Morocco. His musical career as a master of the oud, the Arabic lute, began at a very early age. He was trained at the National Conservatory of Marrakech and joined the fusion band 'Jbara'. He has played with them in many Moroccan festivals, such as the Essaouira Gnaoua Festival, the Great Festival of Casablanca and the Mawazine in Rabat. He continued his training at the University of Erfurt, Germany, deepening his knowledge of music theory while studying Music Education and Philosophy. During this time, he collaborated with many jazz musicians and began to play with the free spaces between the traditional sounds of the Maghreb, Andalusia and Jazz.
The result is a fascinating mix of Arabian jazz, Andalusian music and rock. This potential is the basis for the collaboration between Alaa Zouiten and top-class musicians in a wide variety of fusion projects in musically cosmopolitan Berlin.
Mona Boutchebak, a singer born in Algeria, studied classical music at the Algiers Conservatory (piano, violin) and Andalusian Arabic music at three prestigious schools: El Mossilia, El Sendousia and El inchirah. Mona studied the complex forms of Andalusian Arabic music, the clouds, the poems. The public and the press describe Mona's voice as bewitching. She recorded Le diwan de Mona, where she mixes the Andalusian Arabic tradition with modernity, using drums and electric guitar. Discography Le diwan de Mona Les Orientales, Hommage au Music-Hall D'algerie (MK2 / Night and Day).
