Palestinian jazz pianist Faraj Suleiman is performing at De Roma, in Borgerhout/Antwerp (Belgium) on 22 November 2024.
Faraj Suleiman's journey is not without obstacles: when you were born in Palestine in 1984, it is not easy to build an international career as a pianist. Even though his career was launched at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival and his name is known among many European music lovers. For 3 years he was stuck in Paris due to pandemics and wars and could not return home to Haifa.
The title of Suleiman's latest album, As Much As It Takes, is therefore entirely appropriate. No matter what happens in his life, Suleiman continues to compose and record new songs. The music by which he is overwhelmed is the expression of his joy, but also of his worries and his anger. His music is both instrumental and narrative, intimate and personal as well as universal and political. Any work by a Palestinian artist is, according to the pianist, intrinsically political.
https://www.deroma.be/en/event/faraj-suleiman
