--- product_id: 9764863 title: "Abu Nawas Rhapsody Audio CD – CD, March 1, 2010" brand: "dhafer youssef" price: "€ 39.71" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.it/products/9764863-abu-nawas-rhapsody-audio-cd-cd-march-1-2010 store_origin: IT region: Italy --- # Abu Nawas Rhapsody Audio CD – CD, March 1, 2010 **Brand:** dhafer youssef **Price:** € 39.71 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Abu Nawas Rhapsody Audio CD – CD, March 1, 2010 by dhafer youssef - **How much does it cost?** € 39.71 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.it](https://www.desertcart.it/products/9764863-abu-nawas-rhapsody-audio-cd-cd-march-1-2010) ## Best For - dhafer youssef enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted dhafer youssef brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Abu Nawas Rhapsody Audio CD – CD, March 1, 2010 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71FjmS59iqL.jpg) ![Abu Nawas Rhapsody Audio CD – CD, March 1, 2010 - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71bfIl0hFSL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A listening experience that is difficult to describe *by S***E on Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2021* Listening to Abu Nawas Rhapsody is an experience that is difficult to describe. This can be said of some truly remarkable artistic achievements, yet we often try to do so. What is most important to say is that this album is something special.Jazz may be America's art form, but it is also America's gift to the world, and many artists from around the world have taken it to unique places. Dhafer Youssef is among them. The Tunisian singer and oud player is rooted in jazz, but not exclusively so, and like Anouar Brahem, he combines his influences, through jazz, into something that is beyond words. While perhaps not the most virtuosic oud master in history, he is quite skilled. He is endlessly creative, though, and his voice is otherworldly, capable of such a range of tones that you must hear it to understand it. What makes Abu Nawas Rhapsody so special is that his talents are combined with the best possible accompanists. Most importantly here, that means pianist, Tigran Hamasyan, and percussionist Mark Giuliana. Hamasyan is a shining beacon on the jazz scene for his mastery of time and rhythm, along with his ability to bounce between jazz and other styles, and Giuliana... well. Dhafer Youssef is an extraordinarily talented musician, but to produce a work like this, he needs the best. He has the best. Everything needs to come together for something like Abu Nawas Rhapsody.Little can prepare you for the first experience of hearing it. The dynamic range, Hamasyan's concepts of time and rhythm, Giuliana's fills... and then there is Dhafer. His oud work is interesting, but to repeat, there are more virtuosic players. His voice, though. His voice. The average music fan is accustomed to singing as conveyor of lyrics. This obscures the concept of voice as instrument. Within jazz, there are a variety of singing techniques that emphasize voice as instrument, to say nothing of opera. Youssef's voice moves from the entrancing whisper to a kind of power that sounds inhuman, as in, you have to do a double-take to remind yourself that, yes, that is a person, singing. I love his voice. I neither know nor care what he is singing. It is irrelevant. The experience of hearing is voice, as it plays against Hamasyan's piano, against an oud... this is otherworldy music. And whatever world this is, is something special.Jazz can reach this kind of power, rooted in gospel or blues, and most jazz fans understand the feeling of listening to Mingus channeling gospel-blues to a kind of ecstatic joy, but Youssef accomplishes the task from his own Tunisian musical traditions. And it is somehow something deeper. This is stunning music. As in, you will be stunned, and unable to speak or act upon hearing it, until you have time to think and understand what you have heard. This is genius. That's it. It's just genius.Anouar Brahem is awesome. I love listening to oud players touch on jazz. Driss El Maloumi... hey, Sandy Bull was doing it in the '60s. Dhafer Youssef, though, did something beyond words. How much praise is required here before a reader just gets the album? ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sublimely Meditative Eastern Beauty *by J***T on Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2010* Many of us have been in musical anthropology courses where we were introduced to the instruments and music of non-western cultures. We suffered through the yowling, the plinking and plunking, atonal and the arhythmic. And with a bit of luck, we were excused from the exercise in 13 weeks or less. Flush all of that out of your head. If you're at all inclined to the sort of music that invites you to a simultaneously intensely personal and all embracing communal meditative experience, buy this CD immediately. Ten or twenty years ago, I surrendered to the Middle Eastern magic of a group called Night Ark. This seems to be the next chapter, the next semester in the course. At its core, it is a small jazz ensemble: percussion, bass, guitar (in this case, 'oud) and vocalist. But here is a group that is deft at the long-time tradition of middle eastern music, predating the development of American jazz by centuries, if not millenia. And it is highly skilled, highly virtuosic improvisation that is focused away from the ego and toward the adoration of The Beloved, Love personified, if you will. I have only to add a comment on the liner notes. In the spirit of the music, in the spirit of the inspiration of the ensemble, the notes for each song are presented as a spectacular, one-page painting by a contemporary watercolorist. When I first opened the booklet, I thought, "What the ... ?" But now that I've heard the CD several times, I cannot think of anything more appropriate, more just. Everything about this project is done for you, to invite you to the table, to welcome you as a member of the congregation of the servants of The Beloved. Surrender. Buy the CD. And then surrender again. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Soulful and sensual *by E***C on Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2013* An amazing musician and singer with an incredible gift for turning his nasal-head sound into a soaring instrument! I really like his musical interpretation - fresh and yet somehow with ancient roots. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.it/products/9764863-abu-nawas-rhapsody-audio-cd-cd-march-1-2010](https://www.desertcart.it/products/9764863-abu-nawas-rhapsody-audio-cd-cd-march-1-2010) --- *Product available on Desertcart Italy* *Store origin: IT* *Last updated: 2026-05-09*