Album lore

Don’t Replace Me by a Machine, issued by Molpé Music in 2018, assembles eight tracks from Trio Abozekrys that cross French jazz with African rhythms and the oud's distinctive timbre. The album’s featured track, "Takasim," spotlights the improvisatory dialogue between string and percussion, underscoring the trio’s deft melding of Mediterranean and African musical dialects. Recorded with a keen ear for rhythmic interplay and melodic nuance, the record resists mechanized replication, as its title warns.Notable pieces such as "My Cairo" and the title track unfold with a measured pacing that honors traditional forms while embracing contemporary jazz phrasing. The album’s modest but devoted listenership, evident in its scrobble count, marks it as a subtle artifact within the lineage of global jazz fusion, one that rewards patient and attentive engagement.

Album lore

Don’t Replace Me by a Machine, issued by Molpé Music in 2018, assembles eight tracks from Trio Abozekrys that cross French jazz with African rhythms and the oud's distinctive timbre. The album’s featured track, "Takasim," spotlights the improvisatory dialogue between string and percussion, underscoring the trio’s deft melding of Mediterranean and African musical dialects. Recorded with a keen ear for rhythmic interplay and melodic nuance, the record resists mechanized replication, as its title warns.Notable pieces such as "My Cairo" and the title track unfold with a measured pacing that honors traditional forms while embracing contemporary jazz phrasing. The album’s modest but devoted listenership, evident in its scrobble count, marks it as a subtle artifact within the lineage of global jazz fusion, one that rewards patient and attentive engagement.