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Broken Branches / Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe
PENTATONE

Broken Branches / Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe

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Composer
Various
Artist
Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe
Format
CD
Label
PENTATONE
Released
May 05, 2023
Catalog #
PTC5187031
UPC
8717306260312

About

Nominated for a GRAMMY® Award!

Tenor Karim Sulayman and guitarist Sean Shibe present Broken Branches, a conceptual album with music ranging from Dowland, Monteverdi, Britten, Rodrigo, Takemitsu, Harvey, and Chaker to traditional songs from the Middle East, scrutinizing the close cultural and musical ties between East and West. This musical exploration ties in with the artists’ personal experience of a dynamic, in-between identity, as they grew up in the West having ethnic roots in the East (Lebanon and Japan respectively). Broken Branches explores the wood of the guitar and its relatives, as well as the splintering of history known as diaspora. Karim Sulayman has garnered international attention as a sophisticated and versatile artist, and won a Grammy Award for Classical Solo Vocal in 2019. Multi-award-winning guitarist Sean Shibe brings a fresh and innovative approach to the traditional classical guitar, while also exploring contemporary music and repertoire for electric guitar. He continues his exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE after his well-received Camino (2021) and Lost & Found (2022).

REVIEWS:

It’s a thoughtful and idiosyncratic project, one carried through in several arrangements and realizations by the two musicians that blur the line between song and art song into something broadly ‘folkish’.

-- Gramophone

This is an eclectic album, built on friendship, which explores the performers’ own sense of identity, memory, diaspora, often in their own arrangements. Sulayman, a Lebanese-American singer, light-voiced and flexible, brings intensity to traditional Sephardic song, and new inflections to John Dowland, Claudio Monteverdi and Benjamin Britten (his six songs from the Chinese).

-- The Observer (U.K.)

Tracklist 17 tracks

  1. 1 Book of Songs, Book 3: Time stands still 05:30
    Track
    1
    Title
    Book of Songs, Book 3: Time stands still
    Duration
    05:30
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Performer
    Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe
  2. 2 Sufi Dance 02:18
    Track
    2
    Title
    Sufi Dance
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Jonathan Harvey
    Performer
    Sean Shibe
  3. 3 Dalla porta d'oriente 03:24
    Track
    3
    Title
    Dalla porta d'oriente
    Duration
    03:24
    Composer
    Giulio Caccini
    Performer
    Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe
  4. 4 Si dolce è'l tormento, SV 332 04:27
    Track
    4
    Title
    Si dolce è'l tormento, SV 332
    Duration
    04:27
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe
  5. 5 La mia turca che d'amor, SV 310 02:16
    Track
    5
    Title
    La mia turca che d'amor, SV 310
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Performer
    Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe
  6. 6 La prima vez (arr. K. Sulayman and S. Shibe for voice and guitar) 03:58
    Track
    6
    Title
    La prima vez (arr. K. Sulayman and S. Shibe for voice and guitar)
    Duration
    03:58
    Composer
    Traditional
    Performer
    Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe
  7. 7 Lamma bada yatathanna (arr. S. Shibe for guitar) 02:24
    Track
    7
    Title
    Lamma bada yatathanna (arr. S. Shibe for guitar)
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Traditional
    Performer
    Sean Shibe
  8. 8 El helwa di (arr. R. Malley, K. Sulayman and S. Shibe for voice and guitar) 03:33
    Track
    8
    Title
    El helwa di (arr. R. Malley, K. Sulayman and S. Shibe for voice and guitar)
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    Sayed Darwish
    Performer
    Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe
  9. 9 Li Beirut (arr. K. Sulayman and S. Shibe for voice and guitar) 04:08
    Track
    9
    Title
    Li Beirut (arr. K. Sulayman and S. Shibe for voice and guitar)
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Fairuz
    Performer
    Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe
  10. 10 A Butterfly in New York 04:43
    Track
    10
    Title
    A Butterfly in New York
    Duration
    04:43
    Composer
    Layale Chaker
    Performer
    Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe
  11. 11 Mori no naka de (In the Woods): I. Wainscot Pond (after a painting by Cornelia Foss) 03:29
    Track
    11
    Title
    Mori no naka de (In the Woods): I. Wainscot Pond (after a painting by Cornelia Foss)
    Duration
    03:29
    Composer
    Tōru Takemitsu
    Performer
    Sean Shibe
  12. 12 No. 1. The Big Chariot 02:00
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 1. The Big Chariot
    Duration
    02:00
    Composer
    Benjamin Britten
    Performer
    Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe
  13. 13 No. 2. The Old Lute 02:47
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 2. The Old Lute
    Duration
    02:47
    Composer
    Benjamin Britten
    Performer
    Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe
  14. 14 No. 3. The Autumn Wind 01:25
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 3. The Autumn Wind
    Duration
    01:25
    Composer
    Benjamin Britten
    Performer
    Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe
  15. 15 No. 4. The Herd-Boy 01:30
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 4. The Herd-Boy
    Duration
    01:30
    Composer
    Benjamin Britten
    Performer
    Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe
  16. 16 No. 5. Depression 02:06
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 5. Depression
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    Benjamin Britten
    Performer
    Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe
  17. 17 No. 6. Dance Song 01:16
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 6. Dance Song
    Duration
    01:16
    Composer
    Benjamin Britten
    Performer
    Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe