Armand Amar, “Phalene” from the album “La Traversée”, 1998
Armand Amar was born in Jerusalem, to an Israeli mother and a Jewish-Moroccan father with a French passport. As a child, he immigrated to Morocco with his father. In 1968, he began playing the congas, practicing the tabla and the zarb in the following years.
In 1976 he met South African choreographer Peter Goss, who introduced him to dance. In the subsequent years, he worked with a number of choreographers in contemporary dance.
Amar’s works are focused particularly on Eastern music. He is the author of several ballets and soundtracks films such as “Get Up and Walk”, “The Trail”, “Indigenous” , “The First Cry”, “Earth from Heaven”, and “Bab Aziz”. He founded the label Long Distance in 1994 with his partners Alain Weber and Peter Gabriel.
Excerpts taken from the film “October12, 2013 Morning by the River” and “November Views at Sunset Hours November 13, 2013” by Tbfxtcxzo