Biography
Masaa combines Arabic poetry with contemporary Jazz, East and West enter a lyrical liason unheard of before in its conclusiveness. This groundbreaking concept can be heard on several records: Freedom Dance (2012), Afkar (2014) and Outspoken (2017).
Masaa has been awarded the Bremer Jazzpreis in 2012 as well as the audience award of Creole in 2013 and the Förder-RUTH of the Rudolstadt-Festival in 2015.
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Right from the start the ensemble has made an effort to carry their work out into the world: Masaa performed successfuly in Eastern Africa and Lahoud's homeland Lebanon. In 2015 the quartet teamed up with Israeli singer Yael Deckelbaum and sent out a sign to support the peace process between Jewish and Arabic culture.
Since 2019 Masaa reinvented their sound and personnel. Instead of the pianist Clemens Christian Poetzsch Masaa has the extraordinarily versatile player of the double-neck acoustic guitar Reentko Dirks on board.
Constantly exploring new sounds of the acoustic guitar and his unique style Reentko is moving freely between Classical, Pop and World Music and shapes the new sound of Masaa. Together they released their first album in this new formation "Irade" in February 2022, which was nominated for the German record label award. In March they won the cultural price "Kulturpreis Nord-West".
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.