Christine Sehnaoui & Magda Mayas
Christine Sehnaoui & Magda Mayas
Genres: free improvisation, piano, improvisation, saxophone, eai
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About Christine Sehnaoui & Magda Mayas
The electro-acoustic improv duo of saxophonist Christine Abdelnour (formerly also known as Christine Sehnaoui or Christine Abdelnour Sehnaoui) and pianist Magda Mayas. They have released two albums together so far: "Teeming" (2010 Olof Bright) and "Myriad" (2012 Unsounds). NOTE: As this is an ongoing duo, and Christine Abdelnour has dropped the last name of her ex-husband Sharif Sehnaoui, suggest converting your tags to Christine Abdelnour & Magda Mayas. Christine Sehnaoui (1978), saxophonist of Lebanese descent living in France, is one of the constituent links in what evolved into the contemporary community of improvisers gathered around the rouba3i collective, the Irtijal Festival, and the publishing house Al Maslakh (Slaughterhouse), who form bonds with an international diaspora of outstanding improvisers amidst a quasi-war atmosphere. Christine is an autodidact, which purifies her saxophone of any historical sound admixtures and imbues it with an inquisitive spirit, oriented towards weaving a convincing and unique musical language, which subsequently comes to be even more fruitful through her cooperation with other musicians, including Mazen Kerbaj, Sharif Sehnaoui, Mats Gustafsson, Michael Waisvisz, Michael Zerang, and Tony Buck. Pianist Magda Mayas (1979) was taught the pianist trade by the masterly improvisers Misha Mengelberg and George Graewe, and has become renowned in recent years within the international improvisatory sphere. Mayas works predominantly in Berlin, which has witnessed a heterogeneous evolution of electro-acoustic improvisation, giving birth to sound-pruned aesthetics named ‘the Berlin reductionism’ in the past decade. Mayas is a member of the Phono Phono trio, the Mayas/ Nutters/ Olsen/ Galvez quartet and the larger N-Collective ensemble. She is also performs duets with the Australian percussionist Tony Buck (The Necks), the Australian sound artist Anthea Caddy, as well as saxophone player Christine Abdelnour.
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