France Inter:
« Is there a place where men and music resound together ? Surely ! In Ihab Radwan’s music. It opens up the world, it links together human beings and the physics of sound. The notes hit you in the plexus, the quarter notes tear at your feelings, the silences move you. His music leads you deep within, it opens up new landscapes, other worlds, other interrogation marks. It flatters your ear, touches your heart, titillates your hearing and gnaws away at your spirituality. His music is loaded with the message of humanity and brotherhood. Sounds bring equality.
This passionate globe trotter produces just the right notes to serve his world vision, that of his native culture and of his travels. You are transported by Ihab Radwan’s music.
Ihab Radwan, the ever-curious traveler, is inspired by life, simple, violent or gentle, by his journeys and the various cultures he encountered. His music brings you sand and heat from Egypt, energy and wide open spaces from America and France, culture, history and flavours from the Balkans.
Ihab Radwan is a citizen of the world, with a profound and straightforward message, he chose music as a megaphone to humbly broadcast touches of humanity.
A definite Must ! »
France Inter – Lilian Alleaume

citizenjazz.com:
The last time we heard Michel Godard’s serpent on record, it was already on the Italian label Dodicilune, whose catalog highlights cross-disciplinary projects, often venturing onto rocky and seldom-traveled paths. With Roberto Ottaviano, the theme was the astrolabe, which calculates the position of the stars. A few months earlier, he was wandering through the corridors of time in a chapel. Between the centuries and the stars lies eternity. And when it comes to eternity, love is never far away. This is ideal since it is the central theme of Doux Désirs, a duo album featuring the tubist alongside the master of the Egyptian oud, Ihab Radwan. Courtly love and noble desire, naturally—because while the compositions bear the signatures of the musicians, the unmistakable influence of early music and the dialogues between civilizations that animate them is evident. The tenderness that envelops Tenderness, the pivotal piece of this album recorded in Italy, bears witness to this.
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jazzhalo.be
I discovered Michel Godard at the very beginning of his career, within Tubapack, the tuba quartet led by Marc Steckar (Claude Nougaro’s tubist): Godard was the youngest in the group but already the most prominent due to his virtuosity. I later saw him again in Arles, as part of the quintet led by Gérard Pansanel (g) and Antonello Salis (p-acc), with Enrico Rava on trumpet. Then, on several occasions in Oupeye, during the Jazz au Château festival, for projects such as Le Chant du Serpent with vocalist Linda Bsiri, Untouchable Factor by drummer Sunny Murray, and L’Impossible Trio with Philippe Deschepper on guitar and Youval Micenmacher on percussion—great opportunities for insightful interviews for the magazine Jazz in Time.
As for Ihab Radwan, the Egyptian oud player trained at the Cairo Conservatory and author of the album Egyptian Project, I had the chance to see him twice at L’An Vert in Liège, invited by Toine Thys (ts, bcl)—first with Michel Massot, and the second time with Pascal Rousseau on tuba. It was a true discovery, a pure joy of live performance. Ihab on stage is a sight to behold, his radiant smile and face illuminated by the beauty of the music—a sheer pleasure of playing that also shines through in this album, Doux Désirs.

allaboutjazz.com
Twelve pieces, composed individually or jointly by the two performers, make up this refined duo album featuring French musician Michel Godard, who here gives clear preference— as he often does in recent times— to the ancient serpent, and Ihab Radwan, the Egyptian specialist of the oud. The project is described by the artists themselves as “an original endeavor that merges French, Italian, and Egyptian influences, offering a gaze into the distant past and the near future, seen and interpreted through the prism and the countless facets of jazz.”
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Tess Magazine
What does a first glance look like? Love at first sight? A hand gently brushing against another? It feels like the warm vibrations of Doux Désirs, the magnificent album by Ihab Radwan and Michel Godard, from which they unveiled a few pieces for the very first time yesterday at the Odéon de Tremblay.
On stage, the connection between these two virtuosos is a joy to witness. Armed with an oud (Radwan), a serpent, a tuba, and an electric bass (Godard), the Egyptian and the Frenchman tell a tale of love from both sides of the Mediterranean. Spellbinding…