Squidco: Al Ani, Sabah / Lucio Tasca / Wojtek Kurek: Reductions

Al Ani, Sabah / Lucio Tasca / Wojtek Kurek

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Al Ani, Sabah / Lucio Tasca / Wojtek Kurek: Reductions (Creative Sources)

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Personnel:

Sabah Al Ani-alto saxophone

Lucio Tasca-guitar

Wojtek Kurek-drums, percussions

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UPC: 5609063404371

Label: Creative Sources
Catalog ID: cs437
Squidco Product Code: 24259

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2017
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded in Warsaw, Poland, on January 26th, 2017, by Wojtek Kurek.

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Artist Biographies

• Show Bio for Sabah Al Ani

"Sabah Al Ani is a French-Iraqi alto saxophonist, improviser, composer, engineer. His music gathers different idiomatic influences of contemporary jazz, classical, maqam, noise."

-Sabah Al Ani 11/20/2024

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• Show Bio for Lucio Tasca

"Lucio Tasca is a composer, guitarist and improviser born in Palermo (Sicily), based in UK.

His practice attempts to create immersive listening experiences, exploring the objectivity of formal repetitive processes and the use of fragile and unstable material to foster a subtle dialectical layer of nuances and little imperfections."

-Lucio Tasca Website (http://www.luciotasca.org/about/)
11/20/2024

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Track Listing:

1. 1.6 5:16

2. 2.5 4:43

3. 3.4 6:54

4. 4.3 7:34

5. 5.2 9:46

6. 6.1 4:00

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