{{More citations needed|date=January 2022}}{{Infobox album | name = Souvenance | type = Studio | artist = Anouar Brahem | cover = Souvenance.jpg | border = yes | alt = | released = {{Start date|2014|11|28}} | recorded = {{Start date|2014|05}} | studio = Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI<br>Lugano, Switzerland | genre = Jazz | length = {{Duration|h=1|m=29|s=08}} | label = ECM<br><small>ECM 2423/24</small> | producer = Manfred Eicher | prev_title = The Astounding Eyes of Rita | prev_year = 2009 | next_title = Blue Maqams | next_year = 2017 }}
{{Album ratings | rev1 = ''All About Jazz'' | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite news | title=''Souvenance'' (All About Jazz Review)| url =https://www.allaboutjazz.com/souvenance-anouar-brahem-ecm-records-review-by-mario-calvitti| publisher = All About Jazz | accessdate = July 18, 2017}}</ref> }}
'''''Souvenance''''' is the first double album by Tunisian oud player Anouar Brahem, recorded in May 2014 and released on ECM a few months later on November 28.<ref name="ecmrecords">{{cite news |title=''Souvenance'' |publisher=ECM |url=https://www.ecmrecords.com/catalogue/143038752917/souvenance-anouar-brahem |accessdate=July 18, 2017}}</ref>
==Composition== The album was written during the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Brahem says about this that "I had to wait for the pressure to fall, before I could resume work." and that "I don’t claim a direct link between my compositions and the events that have taken place in Tunisia [...] but I was deeply affected by them."<ref name="ecmrecords"/>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | all_music = Anouar Brahem | headline = Disc one |title1 = Improbable Day |length1 = 12:41 |title2 = Ashen Sky |length2 = 7:36 |title3 = Delivrance |length3 = 5:07 |title4 = Souvenance |length4 = 9:16 |title5 = Tunis at Dawn |length5 = 6:42 |title6 = Youssef's Song |length6 = 10:23 }} {{Track listing | headline = Disc two | total_length = 1:28:58 |title1 = January |length1 = 7:19 |title2 = Like a Dream |length2 = 9:40 |title3 = On the Road |length3 = 7:59 |title4 = Kasserine |length4 = 9:35 |title5 = Nouvelle Vague |length5 = 2:40 }}
==Personnel== * Anouar Brahem – oud * François Couturier – piano * Klaus Gesing – bass clarinet * Björn Meyer – bass * Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana - Pietro Mianiti
==References== {{reflist}} {{Anouar Brahem}} {{Authority control}}
Category:ECM Records albums Category:2015 albums Category:Albums produced by Manfred Eicher