Dauw

You can hear the water gently dripping from the plants. A cricket chirping in the distance. The blue hour. A magical time between day and night. Everyone is still asleep but also almost awake. The moon sailed off, the sun is not up yet. What happens in the blue hour? Who is secretly awake?

The Amsterdam’s Andalusian Orchestra tells a story with ancient instruments: the ud, the ney, the rabab ... It performs a rich oeuvre from Granada to Baghdad. Theatrical elements, humor and playfulness bring this visual listening experience to a broad public. The compositions refer on the one hand to “dew”, in the sense of early morning, sunrise. On the other hand, ‘dew’ refers to the Moroccan “daw”, which means light.

The repertoire includes traditional, ancient and modern music, such as Morena me llaman (a Sephardic folk song), Crescent Moon by Omar Faruk and Tahmilla Bayati by Ahmed El Hefnawy.

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directed by Marlies Bosmans with Marianne Noordink (musical direction, ney, flute and hurdy gurdy), Dwight Breinburg (percussion, vocals and violin), Hamza Amrani (ud, rabab and percussion) and Rémy Dielemans (double bass, bouzouki and ud) photo Bart Grietens