‘Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life,’ wrote German novelist, Berthold Auerbach in the 19th century. There is plenty of dust in the lives of the Joubran Trio; the particles are made up of the range of emotions that come with being Palestinian and Arab-Israeli. But rather than washing away these feelings, Samir Joubran, the trio’s founder, has discovered a way to make use of them by pouring them into music and exuding them on stage with kinetic energy. Besides being extraordinarily gifted oud musicians, the Joubran Trio make the intensity of their emotions become so palpable that they almost hover in the air above them.
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