• muzycy:
Shireen Abu Khader: vocal
Nadine Shahuan: vocal
Rashwan Sabbagh: vocal
Feras Hattar :viola
Fadi Hattar :cello
Humam Eid: oud
Mohammad Taha: percussion

Singer Shireen Abu-Khader fronts an ensemble of musicians from across the Middle East in a series of songs drawn from both Muslim and Christian traditions: the effect is interestingly unplaceable, and Shireen's voice has irresistible charm. The ensemble's desire to win new audiences for their traditional songs leads them to experiment with new modes, without erasing what makes their music special.
The Independent - by Michael Church

Middle Eastern music can be a tricky thing to approach. Where do you start? There is pop, there is classical, there is folk, there are oud traditionalists getting as tetchy as Fanfare subscribers when newbies arrive and try to change things around too much. Introducing Dozan is conceived as an answer to that problem, an album that gives you a small taste of what’s out there, couching it in soothing, persuasive compositions that seem both familiar and foreign.

Dozan’s seven Jordan-based musicians come from Palestine and Syria, as well as Jordan itself. The group is named for the Dozan wa Awtar Music Establishment. Its founder and lead female singer, Shireen Abu-Khader, is also the director and founder of Dozan wa Awtar. She is the woman holding one hand to the side of her head on the front cover of Introducing Dozan. Abu-Khader also heads the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at King’s Academy in Madaba, directing choirs, composing music, and running workshops. The photograph on her Academy web page makes her seem less mysterious than the one on the front of the album. On the album she appears to be a representative of the sandy, antique building behind her, a thoughtful, prophetic woman. On the website she looks like a chirpy drama teacher.

Dozan, the press release tells me, is engaged with its “Levantine heritage”. “Levantine” here is a useful word. It gives a better idea of the way Introducing sounds than the more general, the more obv.......
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Opis-multikulti.com:
Założony przez charyzmatyczną wokalistkę Shireen Abu-Kader zaspół Dozan bazując na elementach na Bliskim Wschodzie bardzo ważnych w pełen akustycznej magii sposób tworzy porywającą, wielobarwną opowieść.
Nad wszystkim unosi się duch międzykulturowego porozumienia. Dość dodać, iż muzycy pochodzą z Syrii, Jordanii, Libanu i Palestyny.
Trzy elementy odpowiedzialne są za muzyczną wyjątkowość albumu: pierwszy to instrumentarium, z których Lutnia Arabska/Oud i instrument perkusyjny Daff/Tar pojawiają się nieomal zawsze w składach bliskowschodnich zespołów.
Drugi to mistrzostwo wykonawcze członków zespołu, z których część to klasycznie wykształceni muzycy, a Shireen Abu-Kader to najbardziej charyzmatyczna z wokalistek/animatorek współczesnej Jordanii.
Trzeci element to skrząca się bliskowschodnią wielobarwnością kobiercowa muzyka, w pełni akustyczna, z dochowaniem niezbędnej uwagi każdemu brzmieniowemu szczegółowi.


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Singer Shireen Abu-Khader fronts an ensemble of musicians from across the Middle East in a series of songs drawn from both Muslim and Christian traditions: the effect is interestingly unplaceable, and Shireen's voice has irresistible charm. The ensemble's desire to win new audiences for their traditional songs leads them to experiment with new modes, without erasing what makes their music special.
The Independent - by Michael Church

Middle Eastern music can be a tricky thing to approach. Where do you start? There is pop, there is classical, there is folk, there are oud traditionalists getting as tetchy as Fanfare subscribers when newbies arrive and try to change things around too much. Introducing Dozan is conceived as an answer to that problem, an album that gives you a small taste of what’s out there, couching it in soothing, persuasive compositions that seem both familiar and foreign.

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