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'''Dhafar Youssef''', born ], ] (1967) is a ] ] ] and an ] ] of outstanding ability.


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Growing up in the Tunisian port town of Teboulba, Youssef absorbed the sounds he heard on the radio, 'without a filter' as he himself recalls. He always had a special penchant for ] and he soon realised that Tunisia would never give him the freedom to explore that particular path. So he left for ], without a dinar to his name. His peripatetic life then took him to ], ], ], ] and back again to ], meeting, playing and collaboratinwith other world musicians. A debut release 'Malak' on the Enja label in 1999 sowed the seeds of an international reputation and Youssef moved to the ] district of ].
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Youssef developed some perennial musical partnerships, notably with the Sardinian trumpeter ] and the Norwegian guitarist ]. Youssef has a special bond with Scandinavian musicians, which is fortunate, since Norway and Sweden are now widely regarded to have the most fascinating and dynamic avant-garde jazz scenes in the world. Youssef has also performed with Uri Caine, ], Markus Stockhausen, Nguyên Lê and the cuban pianist ] to name but a few. In 2001 he recorded the 'Electric Sufi' CD with the ex-Sugar Hill Gang and Tackhead rhythm section of Will Calhoun and Doug Wimbush and followed it up recently with 'Digital Prophecy', another multi-layered marvel.
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With walls, boundaries, barriers, labels and frontiers becoming ever more rigid and impregnable, Dhafer Youssef reminds us that any composer or musician of worth must be free to roam, with his body, his mind and his spirit regardless of national boundaries in the world of music.

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