July 26, 2021
Al-Bustan is pleased to announce the relaunch of Words Adorned, a multimedia project from 2015. This musical composition by Kareem Roustom and Kinan Abou-afach was in collaboration with The Crossing, Al-Bustan Takht, Donald Nally, and Dalal Abu Amneh. Words Adorned is being relaunched in collaboration with Navona Records and has received support from Pew Center of Arts & Heritage, Arab Fund for Arts & Culture, and the William Penn Foundation.
The record is available for purchase here and for streaming on Apple Music and Spotify.
Notes, text, and translation can be found here.
Recorded December 4, 2015 at Goodhart Hall, Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr PA
Live Sound Assistant, Jonathan Orose
Recording Assistant, James Clark Conner
Recorded, Mixed, Edited & Mastered by Joe Hannigan at Weston Sound
Al-Bustan Takht Ensemble
Hanna Khoury, violin and music director
Wassim Odeh, oud
Hicham Chami, qanun
Kinan Abou-Afach, cello
Hafez Kotain, percussion
