The recording and production of a new album, “Al-Idan” (The Ouds), featuring 10 musical compositions by Moroccan Oud-player Alaa Zouaiten and his band, which includes some of the best jazz musicians in Thuringen, Germany. The album presents Moroccan musical heritage in all its diversity – Arab/Islamic, African, Amazigh – with the Oud at its center, while merging western forms like rock, jazz and flamenco.