Healing & Lineage -
Album & Book Release

Celebrating the Life and Teaching of Bassam Saba

Sunday, December 12th at 2:30pm

(First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn, 121 Pierrepont Street)
Tickets - $20 at the door

Healing & Lineage is the first instrumental record from The Epichorus, recorded live, ten musicians in a circle at Dreamland, a church turned recording studio outside Woodstock, NY during the summer of 2018. Unexpectedly, our teacher and friend Bassam Saba was in town from Lebanon and joined us to record the album. These performances are some of the last recordings of the unparalleled performer of Arabic music and master of the nay (reed flute), as Bassam passed of Covid, on December 4th, 2020.

Healing & Lineage includes performances by the Epichorus of songs from the Arabic tradition composed by by Riyad Sunbati, Hamza El Din, and Saleh Kuwaiti, set alongside three new compositions from bandleader and composer Zach Fredman.

To accompany the digital album, the Epichorus will release a 70 page book with original artwork, photographs and short essays that tell the story of these songs and the artists of the generations who came before us, whose music became our teaching and our inspiration.

The event will include performances from the album & stories from Bassam's students and family. Please join us to celebrate the publication of this new work, and to honor the life of our beloved mentor, teacher, and friend.

Featuring:

Megan Gould - Violin

Zafer Tawil - Qanun

Zach Fredman - Oud

Marandi Hostetter - Violin

Rich Stein - Percussion

Philip Mayer - Percussion

Daniel Ori - Upright Bass

featuring special guest vocalist: Zahra Zubaidi

Click here to hear the album's title track Refuah (Healing)