Anouar Brahem Quartet

A few years ago, a documentary was shown on ZDF about an emergency chaplain. In response to the question of how he would get rid of all the bad impressions of his working day, he put on a record: Anouar Brahem's "Astrakan café", released exactly 25 years ago. A masterpiece of healing music. One critic describes it more soberly, but no less aptly, as follows: The Tunisian oud virtuoso wanders freely between musical worlds - between those he inhabits and those that dwell within him. Born in Tunis, Brahem soon traveled halfway around the world, and his medium for getting to know the world and inviting it to join him was music. "I wanted to play with musicians from the most diverse traditions," he says. Which he has been doing for over 40 years now, with greats such as Jan Garbarek, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. He recently recorded the album "After the Last Sky" with an all-star line-up for his house label ECM. An album that takes the situation in the Middle East with love and great concern. His unquestionably moving performance marks the official closing of Enjoy Jazz 2025.