Faris Ishaq

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JASAD جَسَد (Arabic for “Body”) is the new album by Palestinian Nay virtuoso and percussionist Faris Ishaq, a breath-driven manifesto reimagining the Nay - a Middle Eastern flute with a 5,000-year history - as a contemporary, self-sustained acoustic landscape. For this special in-the-round performance at the EFG London Jazz Festival, Faris Ishaq premieres the expanded trio incarnation of JASAD , extending the album's intimate sonic world into a dynamic live experience. Performing the Nay alongside a leg-mounted frame drum, the JASAD setup was born from the Nay’s raw intensity. Made of reed cane, with no mouthpiece or mechanics, it responds solely to the player’s breath and intention, a quality celebrated in JASAD as living technology. Faris creates an array of breath-led extended…