Pooria Pournazeri’s and Zal Sissokho’s Logs (Conseil des arts de Montréal en tournée)

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Pooria Pournazeri offers a musical journey into the heart of the poetry of the great 12th-century Persian scholar Omar Khayyam.

This concert draws its musical influences from Iran to Kurdistan and features the vocal stylings of Raha Yousefi resonating with Pooria’s tanbur, Reza Abaee’s gheychak, Sheila Hannigan’s cello and Éric Breton’s percussion.

Zal’s Log gives carte blanche to the artist Zal Sissokho to create new works with musicians from different backgrounds.

Alongside flamenco guitarist Caroline Planté, double bassist Mohamed Masmoudi and percussionist Miguel Medina, Zal presents an encounter between his native Mandinka culture and flamenco, thus redefining the boundaries of his traditional instrument, the kora.