Aka Moon & Friends

For more than twenty years, Aka Moon has repeatedly reinvented jazz, for example by way of crossovers to ethnic music, funk and rock. ‘Racial Mixing’ also creates new groups such as Aka Balkan Moon, where the Balkan tradition is kindled by violinist Tcha Limberger and Bulgarian companions, or AlefBa, which opts for the sensual, rich array of Middle Eastern sound textures with voices from Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. These ‘universal souls’ have now united in Alifbata for a concert programme that journeys from the East to the West. Musical figures such as the Sufi singer Zila Khan from Calcutta and the amazing Iraqi-American trumpet player Amir El Saffar accompany Fabrizio Cassol and his Aka Moon followers.