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Abed Azrié
Syrian Abed Azrié is the voice of the great mythical poets of the Arab world and
the Middle East. Abed Azrié uses a base of traditional Arabic music to which he
adds contemporary sounds based on electronic instruments. In 1977, Abed Azrié
set to music theEpic of Gilgamesh, the great Sumerian saga. The poems of Omar
Khayyam were also set to music in 1999, before Abed Azrié turned his attention
to Sufi poems with Mystic in 2008. Evangile Selon Saint Jean in 2009 is a daring
oratorio sung in Arabic, while Satie en Orient is no less ambitious in 2011. In
2012, Abed Azrié Chante Adoni...
