Tag Archives: Traditional Middle Eastern Folk

The role from the Arabic, lute-like, stringed instrument, the oud, continues to be revolutionized through the playing of Anouar Brahem. While found in days gone by to accompany vocalists, the oud can be used by Brahem as an imaginative single device. In 1988, Tunisian newspapers Tunis-Hebdo published, “If we’d to …

Omar Bashir was created to be always a musician. The child of late important oud participant Munir Bashir (1930-1997), Bashir offers continuing to explore the mode-based, raga-like Arabic Taqsim that his dad helped to create to the worldwide stage. Taught to try out the oud at age five by his …

b. 1971, Khartoum, Sudan. Descended from an extended type of intellectuals, performers and music artists (most of her 19 siblings get excited about the arts for some reason), Rasha worked well in creation for the theater, tv and radio while performing, composing and learning music in her free time with …

Having constructed her reputation being a singer of Baroque, Renaissance, and early music, Savina Yannatou provides increasingly veered toward avant-garde jazz and improvisational music. Accompanied by her music group, Primavera en Salonico, which she shaped in 1993, Yannatou proceeds to show her mastery of Mediterranean music. Her repertoire contains tracks …

The reception accorded the death of Umm Kulthum showed how powerful and beloved the Egyptian vocalist had become. Using the roads of Cairo lined by many million mourners, Kulthum’s followers required her body in the shoulder blades of of the state pallbearers and handed down her from individual to individual …

The music from the world is combined through the compositions of piano and synthesizer player, composer, and music director, Jamshied Sharifi. While his preliminary concentrate was on American jazz, Sharifi provides incorporated a different range of affects into his music including components of Middle Eastern and African music and jazz. …

Vocalist/instrumentalist/composer al-Abash was notable to get a deep tone of voice with an evocative quality of poignancy, the actual fact that inside the pop field he sang in designs thought to be “authentic” in both Egypt as well as the Levant, and most importantly for his extensive usage of the …

The Kamkars are perhaps one of the most active yet accessible ensembles in Middle Eastern music. They fuse components off their Kurdish folk music traditions with conventions from Persian traditional music, using musical instruments from both. At nine music artists they are huge more than enough to constitute an orchestra, …

Ali Hassan Kuban is really a get better at singer and popularizer of Nubian music, a typically vocal appearance native towards the boundary area of Egypt and Sudan. Within the middle ’50s, Kuban added electrical guitars, tips, a horn section, and percussion to his music, fusing traditional tracks of like …

Pablo Cueco has adapted the Iranian wooden drum, zarb or tombak, to some diverse selection of music genres. An associate of the initial clarinet, cello and zarb group, the Denis Colin Trio, Cueco spent some time working using the Denis Hake Trio as well as the David Rueff Quintet and …