L’Youm Dima, New Album by Emil Zrihan

03/04/2004 08:30AM

Israel - Israeli musician and renowned vocalist Emil Zrihan has a new recording. Zrihan's new album L' Youm Dima was produced by the highly acclaimed Nabil Khalidi, who used to perform with Emil as an 'ud player. Khalidi composed 7 original pieces for the album and brought together the leading Middle Eastern-pop musicians in the French scene. He also added to the arrangements a top-class Moroccan string section (16 musicians) and together with Zrihan they dedicated their time to recording in France and Morocco.

Emil Zrihan's voice, known as "the voice of the mockingbird," unleashes searing, fantastically ornamented notes that go on and on and on. Today he's one of the finest countertenor's in the world, with the repertoire that spans his ancestors' Spanish roots, the North African secular music of his youth and Jewish liturgical song

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