Tunisian Music & Jazz Fusion | Yacine Boulares
We discussed Yacine Boulares' label Shams Records, and the Habibi festival he founded in New York. We also talked about his music, his work with countless musical legends, and his band AJOYO, a mystic brew of African tradition, jazz, and soul.
Yacine Boulares is a Tunisian saxophonist, clarinetist and composer based in Brooklyn, NY. A graduate from La Sorbonne in Philosophy and the Conservatoire National de Paris, he is also a Fulbright and New School for Jazz grantee.. Yacine is also involved in many creative projects with schools and community-based organizations in the US. In 2016-17 he was an artist residence at the Baltimore School for the arts where he commissioned to compose a suite of songs blending Jazz with West and North African rhythms. Yacine was selected to be a part of the prestigious Joe’s Pub Working Group to develop his newest project IFRIQIYA, a multimedia performance exploring the Afro Tunisian rhythmic traditions. In 2020, he founded the label Shams Records and the Habibi Festival in New York, a three day festival dedicated to contemporary Arabic culture.
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