Jan Wouter Oostenrijk-guitars,vocals,E-bow,composer/ arranger,bandleader
Mohammed Bouhanna-Arabic percussion,Sala Abdikader Nor-Arabic percussion & 2nd voice, Sebastiaan Kaptein/Rachid Khelif-drums,Marco van den Akker-bass, Joost Swart - keys
Who we would like to meet:
......People who feel connected with our music! ......fans, listeners, musicians,labels,distributers,magazines,reporters,journalists, dj's, concert & festival programmers and so on......
People who like to contribute & develop with us, to make Maghreb Jazz (guitar) in all it's appearances a global joyable music movement!
Influences
too much to mention....please judge yourself, I am inspired by all great musicians who's music touched me
Sounds Like
.......world jazz maghreb rock fusion crossover arab.....
CD's available on
Maghreb Jazz Live @ Purejazz festival The Hague 2008
Virtuoso Dutch guitar player Jan Wouter Oostenrijk completed his professional Jazz guitar studies at the conservatory of Amsterdam as student of Wim Overgaauw in 1995. He got a degree for classical guitar as well and took lessons in Flamenco music and Arabic melody. At the open university he also studied Arabic language which enables him to express himself and sing in the Northafrican dialect.
JWO was part of succesful Moroccan formations like Raïland (winner “Gouden Notenkraker “ award in 1996 ). Nowadays he plays with his own formation and combines his experiences with the Northafrican music-culture with his own European roots. JWO’s guitar playing is melting excellent with Arabic Sharki, Raï and Chaâby, his improvisatitions move from jazzy bebob lines to blues to oriental makam like playing . Together with his band they developed an impressive, innovating crossover between music cultures wich you could call Maghreb jazz.
The band released 2 albums- Open up your eyes (2000) and ‘Maghreb Jazz Guitar’(2007)
JWO is not only successful in Holland, he played at big international festivals in Morocco like Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech. Beside that he performed in Sudan and Egypt and got a radioindy "Golden artist" award for his album Maghreb Jazz guitar in the USA.
Nowadays his Maghreb Jazz is world wide available and source of inspiration for new music movements !!
Check our latest video L blaed l musiqya (the Land of my music) from the album Maghreb Jazz guitar, shot from a cab in the Rif mountains near Ketama and in Holland
Find out more? www.jwo.nu www.maghrebjazz.nl
Support your local deejay! "March Of The Sultans" is doing great at iTunes. If YOU like it, buy it and play it loud!
As heard on Studio Brussel and BBC radio one!
Buy here:
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Thanks for your support!
MARCH OF THE SULTANS TOUR with gigs at Belgium's biggest festivals! Pukkelpop, Dour, Sfinks, Cactus, Tomorrowland, 10daysoff and more!
Aprés -rap2bled-Souss records enchaine avec une nouvelle compilation qui rend homage aux enciens artistes locaux et les sonoritées bérbéres. Compilation «son d'Aga »son d'Agadir,est le fruit d'un travail qui réuni« Elmarek1»,« Style Souss »,« Rass Derb » et « itrane o'gadir »,une fusion parfaite entre le hip hop et l'art des RWAISS Le projet seras dans les bacs la fin du mois Mai 2009,en attendant,vous pouvez ecouter et telecharger le premeier extrait qui porte le nom de la compilation « Son d'AGA » ici ; http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5YI404RA ausi sur www.myspace.com/stylesouss www.myspace.com/soussrecords
