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Toufic Farroukh

Toufic Farroukh

About Me

The saxophone player and composer Toufic Farroukh has chosen jazz as his favourite idiom - a jazz with the colours of the Orient, to reflect his career as an artist with his roots in two cultures, and one who is open to all the different forms of artistic expression in contemporary society, particularly dance, theatre and the cinema.A saxophonist since an early age, Toufic studied music at the Ecole Normale Supérieur in Paris, and today he collaborates regularly as a composer with the department of modern dance at the Paris Conservatory (CNR). Although resident in Paris, he keeps a watchful eye on everything happening on the cultural scene in the Lebanon. Toufic has also composed the music for several films and documentaries about his homeland, and has appeared as saxophonist on several albums of well -known artists. For his own albums, he leaves all theoretical dogma aside, assuming instead the various influences at work in his life, and from there going on to create in a strikingly tranquil manner his own utterly authentic universe.“Ali on Broadway” (1994) “Little Secrets” (1998) "Drab Zeen" (2002) "Ali on Broadway - The other mix” (2004) "Tootya" (2007)

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Member Since: 4/20/2007
Band Website: touficfarroukh.com
Band Members: Toufic Farroukh & Absolute Orkestra
Record Label: O+ ; Chill Island
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Ali on Broadway - Credits

Paris sessions Florence Melnotte - Acoustic Piano (3, 5, 6 & 8) Mishko - Fretless & 6 string bass guitars. Etienne Brachet - Drums (2, 3, 5, 6, 7 & 8) Yves Abadi - Drums (1 & 4) Nicol...
Posted by Toufic Farroukh on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:33:00 PST

Tootya - Credits

1 Systole, diastole ! 2 Hanina 3 Radio city 4 Ya Nassim Alrouh 5 Destins et désirs 6 The girl from gypsy moon 7 Elhob ?! 8 Cendres 9 Scarecrow and peacock 10 Ya Habibi 11 Long distance call 12 Only lo...
Posted by Toufic Farroukh on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:04:00 PST

Drab Zeen - Credits

  1. Fusic 2. Lili s'en fout 3. The pain in Spain stays mainly in the brain 4. Land of milk and money 5. Callipyge (intro) 6. Callipyge 7. Kaf skoon (intro) 8. Kaf skoon 9. L'homme qui a perdu s...
Posted by Toufic Farroukh on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:06:00 PST

Ali on Broadway, the other Mix 2004

  "Ali on Broadway, the other mix", est un album doublement " sauvé ", doublement sauvé, si l'on peut dire, puisque les bandes analogiques étaient techniquement quasi perdues, et qu'en parvenant ...
Posted by Toufic Farroukh on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:56:00 PST

TOOTYA

  Jazz from unfamiliar angles. If Toufic Farroukh's new album 'Tootya' is anything it is this. A touch of oriental roots, a tinge of electronica combined with lots of intense flavoring the accomp...
Posted by Toufic Farroukh on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:00:00 PST

DRAB ZEEN

DRAB ZEEN 2002 Dans son dernier enregistrement Drab Zeen , Toufic Farroukh rend hommage à son ami, l'artiste Joseph Sacre... Toute musique est plus ou moins pétrie d'horizons divers. Cette évidence, ...
Posted by Toufic Farroukh on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:59:00 PST