It was the Neanderthals who imagined a sound making miracle hiding in a cave bear’s leg bone and carved it into the oldest known musical instrument. Ought to any of them occur to drop by 50,000 years later, thanthemic flute-funk of the modern instrument’s current pop renaissance would blow their minds. However a few of their invention’s oldest virtues may nonetheless be reassuringly acquainted – soft-blown tones like sighs or whispers, evocations of birdsong or rainforest chatter. Within the startling flute sound of the Paris-raised, Franco-Syrian improviser and cAssam Naïssam Jalal, its oldest virtues and wildest trendy manifestations be Thee one.
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