‘Amada’ is now available.

Filmed live at Festival Park Yenikapı during the ‘Ecstasy: Between Two Seas’ concert, this composition by Sami Yusuf explores the soul’s surrender into the Divine. Rooted in the mystical poetry of San Juan de la Cruz, the performance captures a journey from symphonic richness to a visceral acoustic meditation.

Listen/Watch: https://sy.lnk.to/Amada-Live


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Both concerts at Bab Makina — sold out, and unforgettable.
To everyone who came, from Morocco and beyond: thank you. Truly.
Fez always gives more than it takes 💛🙏🇲🇦

This piece was born in Baku — premiered at Timeless Presence, in partnership with UNESCO — and carried something of that city’s ancient soul into every performance since. Istanbul, 2025, marked only its second time performed live. Before 25,000 people, sold out, in one of the most musically alive cities in the world.

On this night, it was brought to life by musicians of rare sensitivity and skill:

Yakup Selim Şenel — Tanbur

Elvin Novruzov — Kamancha

Mehmet Ömer Aşçıoğlu — Classical Kemenche

Yunus Emre — Ney

Magsad Azizov — Balaban & Mijwiz

Zaki Valiyev — Tar

Together with the rest of the Fons Sophiae Collective, they gave everything.

To the audience that night — and to the Turkish audience more broadly — I want to say something I mean with complete sincerity: you are among the most discerning, most musically sophisticated audiences in the world. To be heard by you, truly heard, is an honour I do not take lightly.

September. Together again 🙏
SY

Listen/Watch: https://sy.lnk.to/PalaceoftheShirvanshahs

The tar, a palace, and a melody centuries old.

‘Palace of the Shirvanshahs’ Now streaming.

Listen/Watch: https://sy.lnk.to/PalaceoftheShirvanshahs

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Delighted to share the video release of ‘Eterna (Between Two Seas)’ — filmed live at Yenikapı, Istanbul, before 25,000 souls, with over eighty musicians as well as members of the Fons Sophia Collective.

This performance holds a special place for me. We brought many of the pieces from ‘Ecstasy’ to a live audience for the very first time — a full year before the album’s release. ‘Eterna’ was one of those pieces. And as always, the live version carries something the studio cannot fully contain: a rawness, a presence, a life entirely its own.

The words belong to two poets separated by centuries yet moved by the same fire — San Juan de la Cruz and Yunus Emre. That these voices found each other on a stage in Istanbul felt, to me, quietly inevitable.

And a particular word of gratitude to Isra Moro, for
his beautiful vocals.

Watch now https://sy.lnk.to/Eterna

With love,
SY

Twenty years on, and Hasbi Rabbi continues to move people in ways I could never have anticipated.

Its secret, perhaps, is that it was never mine alone — it belongs to a tradition far older and deeper than any single composition. What is truly rooted does not age.

It is one of those pieces I never tire of performing — and I cannot wait to bring it to Türkiye this September💛

📍 Ankara — 23 & 24 September, 9:00 PM — ATO Congresium

📍 Istanbul — 27 & 28 September, 9:00 PM — Istanbul Congress Center (ICC), Harbiye Auditorium

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#samiyusuf #rooted #hasbirabbi #worldmusictraditions

‘Ecstasy’ in Dolby Atmos — available now 🎧

This album was conceived for exactly this: sound that surrounds, breathes, and moves. After many months of work, it is finally ready to be heard the way it was always meant to be. Don’t just listen. Be inside it 💛

🔗 https://sy.lnk.to/Ecstasy-DolbyAtmos

Few musical traditions move me the way Turkish traditional music does. There is a sophistication and a soulfulness to it that I have admired my entire life.

This September, I’ll be performing a special rendition of *Zâhid Bizi Ta’n Eyleme* — a piece that means a great deal to me. I cannot wait to share it with you in Türkiye. 💛🙏

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Türk geleneksel müziği beni derinden etkileyen nadir müzik geleneklerinden biridir. Tüm hayatım boyunca hayranlık duyduğum bir incelik ve ruh derinliği taşır.

Bu Eylül, *Zâhid Bizi Ta’n Eyleme*’nin özel bir yorumunu seslendireceğim — benim için çok anlamlı bir eser. Türkiye’de sizinle paylaşmak için sabırsızlanıyorum. 💛🙏

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Dün gece muhteşem bir katılım ve hatırlanacak unutulmaz bir geceydi!

Bu akşam görüşürüz! 🫶🇹🇷

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Last night was an incredible turnout and an unforgettable night to remember!

See you all tonight! 🫶🇹🇷

#rooted #samiyusuf

Teşekkür ederiz, Ankara, yürekten.

Şimdi sizi İstanbul’da görmek için sabırsızlanıyoruz! 🇹🇷🌹

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Thank you, Ankara, from the bottom of our hearts.

Now we can’t wait to see you all in Istanbul! 🇹🇷🌹

#samiyusuf #rooted

İstanbul, buradayız 💛🇹🇷

Bu akşam görüşürüz!

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Istanbul, we are here 💛🇹🇷

See you all tonight!

#samiyusuf #fonssophiaecollective #rooted

Beautiful memories 🇹🇷🙏

#samiyusuf #rooted #türkiye

Between performances on my sold-out tour in Türkiye, I stepped out for a quiet walk through Istanbul.

A moment of stillness, between the music

The concerts have now come to an end, and my heart is full. Thank you, Türkiye, for four unforgettable nights that I will carry with me for a long time to come 💛🇹🇷

I hope to see you all very soon 🫶

#samiyusuf #Istanbul #Türkiye #rooted

I first composed ‘Lifting the Veil’ back in 2017, while working on the album ‘Ecstasy’ in Meknes, Morocco. To see it finally come to life on the album this past March was quite something — and now, to hear it as a live rendition, is almost indescribable.

I opened my concert at the 29th Fes Festival of World Sacred Music with this piece — now shared as its first live release, recorded within the ancient walls of Bab Makina with the outstanding @fonssophiaecollective 💛

🎧 Listen/Watch: https://sy.lnk.to/LiftingtheVeil

🎥 https://sy.lnk.to/Liftingtheveil-YT

#samiyusuf #liftingtheveil #fonssophiaecollective