FARAJ SULEIMAN - As Much As It Takes

• Release Date: 29.09.2023
• Catalog No: TWOGTL 106
• Genre: jazz

This product is currently on pre-order and will be dispatched in line with the advertised release date.

Faraj Suleiman’s path has been fraught with obstacles: when you’re born in 1984 in a Palestinian village, a career as a pianist is not a straightforward journey. And even if his name’s now known to European music lovers, he struggled during the pandemic—stuck in Paris even though he lives in Haifa—to get his new album out there. That’s the meaning of its title, As Much As It Takes. Whatever it takes, Suleiman composes and records to add to his already copious discography, because music overwhelms him. It’s the expression of his joys and sorrows, his anger too. It’s instrumental and narrative: it’s intimate, universal and political. Any work produced by a Palestinian is, according to the pianist, intrinsically political.

1. Single Mother
2. Akka-Safad
3. Dal’ouna in the Galilean Wedding
4. Oriental Melody
5. On Your Toes
6. Table for Two
7. Have You Eaten?
8. Rama Village
9. Midnight Delivery
10. Unsolved Cube
11. Return

• Release Date: 29.09.2023
• Catalog No: TWOGTL 106
• Genre: jazz

This product is currently on pre-order and will be dispatched in line with the advertised release date.

Faraj Suleiman’s path has been fraught with obstacles: when you’re born in 1984 in a Palestinian village, a career as a pianist is not a straightforward journey. And even if his name’s now known to European music lovers, he struggled during the pandemic—stuck in Paris even though he lives in Haifa—to get his new album out there. That’s the meaning of its title, As Much As It Takes. Whatever it takes, Suleiman composes and records to add to his already copious discography, because music overwhelms him. It’s the expression of his joys and sorrows, his anger too. It’s instrumental and narrative: it’s intimate, universal and political. Any work produced by a Palestinian is, according to the pianist, intrinsically political.

1. Single Mother
2. Akka-Safad
3. Dal’ouna in the Galilean Wedding
4. Oriental Melody
5. On Your Toes
6. Table for Two
7. Have You Eaten?
8. Rama Village
9. Midnight Delivery
10. Unsolved Cube
11. Return