The place: Upper Albaycin, in a sheltered street around Plaza Larga, a restaurant called “El Higo”.
The time: the sun has just set behind the wide horizon, and the eastern Solemn mountain have grown cold. It’s 8:30 pm.
Yunaman is a musical band of four members. This time only the couple were there: Anna and Yazan. Anna Kalo a Greek musician living in Granada on the vocals and percussion, and Yazan Ibrahim a Syrian-Palestinian musician who has been living in Cordoba and studying Flamenco plays percussion and guitar. The name of the band comes from Yonan and Aman. Yonan means Greece in Arabic and Aman refers to the improvisational singing of Asia Menor and Greece.
The band features traditional Greek music and some modern pieces too.
How it went:
we sat in the first row, huddled by warmth and thirst for good music. No one spoke Greek, but that wasn’t the point, the point was to speak to your soul. Anna has a such a beautiful voice that penetrates the soul, nudges it to dance, to cry and to laugh.
She sang the following song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibLBlpFXKgI and it enchanted the audience. The forks stopped clanking, and the cups rested on the tables, while the eyes focused here and not here.
AICHA BINT YUSIF 