| Astrakan café | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | the Anouar Brahem Trio |
| Cover: | Astrakan Café.jpg |
| Released: | [1] |
| Studio: | Prostei Sankt Gerold Sankt Gerold, Austria |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 1:17:42 |
| Label: | ECM ECM 1718 |
| Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
| Chronology: | Anouar Brahem |
| Prev Title: | Thimar |
| Prev Year: | 1998 |
| Next Title: | Le pas du chat noir |
| Next Year: | 2002 |
Astrakan café is an album by Tunisian oud player Anouar Brahem, recorded for ECM at the Propstei Sankt Gerold, Austria in June 1999 and released on September 18, 2000. Brahem's trio features clarinetist Barbaros Erköse and percussionist Lassad Hosni.[2]
The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek called it "deeply personal, profound music. It is also highly iconographic, with timelessness woven through every measure.... This would be traditional music if a tradition such as this—which is original, though adapted from many sources on inspiration—actually existed. Highly recommended."[3]