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"A wonderful album! One can only remain silent and say: listen for yourself. A touch of music that fully claims to be art and that with its essence will touch the most delicate strings of sensibility."
To read the full review: click on Jazz Fun or on the pdf document to the right.(German)
"The combination of these three instruments and the music they bring to Sea of Stories - a cross-pollination of jazz and sounds from the Balkans, the Middle East and the Méditerranée - immediately sent me on a musical rediscovery journey."
To read the full review: click on Stereotype or on the pdf document to the right (Dutch).
"With this redemptive "Sea of Stories", dancers will lament the sounds of a desolate tango and sway to sad waltzes."
To read the full article: click on Jazz Mania or on the pdf document on the right (French).
"A new "message in a bottle" sent out into the wide world from Ostend," says the artist."
"A mostly melancholic soundtrack with impressive cinematic accents. As if sounding out the desolation of existence in an intoxication of dreamy visions."
To read the full review: click on Jazz'Halo or on the pdf document to the right (Deutch).
"Yamen blends western and eastern sounds with his trumpet, just as Otto provides the necessary depth on his self-assembled double bass. Maris then creates a gipsy-esque atmosphere with his accordion."
To read the full review: click on Keys and Chords or on the pdf document to the right (Deutch).
"Through seven new compositions, 3'Ain continue their jazz-rooted journey through the scenic musical imagery of Byzantine Syria and the Levant, using their acoustic instrumental configuration to take listeners with them on their journey"
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"Jazz of the highest order. With "Sea of stories", the band 3'Ain has released a very good first album. Musicians Yamen Martini (trumpet), Piet Maris (accordion) and Otto Kint (double bass) offer an intense and captivating journey with intelligent and infectious music that was not recorded in Ostend by chance ."
To read the full review: click on Cutting Edge Magazine of the pdf document to the right.
“Together they make irresistible world fusion, multicultural music that shows that where worlds come together, the world immediately becomes a little richer and more beautiful. Music to put you in a particularly good mood.”
To read the full review: click on Moors Magazine or on the pdf document to the right (Deutch).
"An encounter of Eastern melancholy, Western sea shanties and universal jazz sounds."
To read the full review: click on Da Music Magazine of on the pdf document to the right
"A trumpet, an accordion, a bass et voilà: stories in full sea"
Jean-Claude Vantroyen gives 4 stars to the album Sea of Stories by 3'Ain in Le Soir:
To read the full review: click on the pdf document to the right.