"Hatim Belyamani is grinning as he and nine other musical artists take their places on the small stage to the applause of a sellout, standing-room-only audience of some 200 people at Public Records, a state-of-the-art music hall in Brooklyn. Shaking off nerves, Belyamani slides behind his digital mixing board, grips the mic and introduces his fellow performers for the musical journey they have prepared and called Tanfis, an Arabic word describing a spiritual release and renewal akin to releasing a long-held breath. All has been made possible by the nonprofit Remix⟷Culture, which he founded to record, film, digitally remix and disseminate the sounds of musicians playing within underrepresented acoustic traditions around the world. ...”
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