• Yazz Ahmed – She Stands On The Shore
    • Yazz Ahmed – A Paradise In The Hold
    • Yazz Ahmed – Into The Night
    • 1. She Stands On The Shore
    • 2. A Paradise In The Hold
    • 3. Mermaids' Tears
    • 4. Her Light
    • 5. Al Naddaha
    • 6. Dancing Barefoot
    • 7. Into The Night
    • 8. Though My Eyes Go To Sleep, My Heart Does Not Forget You
    • 9. To The Lonely Sea
    • 10. Waiting For The Dawn

    Yazz Ahmed, hailed as one of the most influential trumpet players of her generation. An Ivor Novello award winning composer who makes sweeping epics that are rich with storytelling, depicting evocative ancient worlds and mythological muses. With her fourth studio album, A Paradise in the Hold, the British-Bahrani musician dives even deeper into her dual heritage and has come up with a treasure trove that draws on traditional music and stories from her childhood home. Ahmed writes for the voice for the first time, with lyrics inspired by Bahraini wedding poems and the yearning songs of the pearl divers. Deeply textural, expansive and full of potent performances, the album charts the heroic voyages of the jewel-hunters of yore, who sailed home through rough seas with precious cargo, and Ahmed’s own voyage of self-discovery over the past decade.

    “A thread in my work has been searching for, establishing and, now, finally embracing and celebrating my cultural identity,” she says. Whereas she explored Arabian music more generally with her earlier material, this release is more explicitly linked to her homeland. “If my first album, 2011’s Finding My Way Home, represents the first steps on this path then with A Paradise In The Hold, I’ve arrived at a deeper understanding of how my British and Bahraini heritage can co-exist, in personal as well as musical terms.”

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