Alaa Zouiten Trio - AFICIONADO - Flamenco Moro - Magic Carpet Sessions

Alaa Zouiten Trio ★ AFICIONADO - Flamenco Moro MAGIC CARPET SESSIONS | Adventurous, intimate & crossing borders with music from around the world! Thursday 19.11.2026 @ Mezrab ★ AFICIONADO - Flamenco Moro brings together two traditions that are closer to one another than they first appear: flamenco and the Moorish-Andalusian music of Morocco. Alaa Zouiten discovered flamenco through Paco de Lucía and from 2015 travelled repeatedly to Andalusia to learn it, and in the process found his way back to the music of his own country. Flamenco palos supply the form, while the material moves freely between the two shores: a fandango opens onto an old Andalusian nuba, a tango turns North African in its rhythm, an Arabic samai leads into a soleá flamenca. The oud carries all of it. The album of the same name was released in April 2025 and awarded four stars by Songlines. In the trio format, oud, guitar and percussion, the music draws closer together, more chamber-like and more open to the moment. The boundaries fall and clear the horizon, for the beauty of music "Alaa's music bridges Maghreb and flamenco convincingly and at a high level." , Songlines (UK), ★★★★ Alaa Zouiten , oud, composition...