Musicians:

• Dhafer Youssef oud, voice
• Anton Burger violin
• Achim Tang double bass
• Jatinder Thakur tabla
• guest: Otto Lechner accordion

TrackList:

1. Baraca (06:20)
2. El Houb El Hindi (09:22)
3. Am Naschmarkt (05:11)

Duration : 20:53 | Bitarte : 350 kBit/s | Year : 1996 | Size : 42 mb

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Dhafer albums on SurajMusic

Dhafer Youssef – 2010 – Abu Nawas Rhapsody
Dhafer Youssef – 2008 – Live at Cully Jazz Festival 2008
Dhafer Youssef – 2007 – Glow
Dhafer Youssef – 2003 – Digital Prophecy
Dhafer Youssef – 2001 – Electric Sufi

Nguyên Lê & Paolo Fresu & Dhafer Youssef – 2006 – Homescape
Anna Maria Jopek – 2008 – Jo & Co

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Munir Bashir was one of the most famous musicians in the Middle East during the 20th century and was considered to be the supreme master of the Arab maqamat scale system. He created different styles of the Arabian short scaled lute, the oud. He was one of the first middle eastern instrumentalists known to Europe and America. Bashir’s music is distinguished by a novel style of improvisation that reflects his study of Indian and European tonal art in addition to oriental forms. Munir Although he was an ethnic Assyrian Bashir played a big role in Arab culture throughout the 20th century. Born in Iraq, he had to deal with numerous disruptions of violent coup attempts and multiple wars that the country went through. He would eventually exile to Europe and become noticeable first in eastern nations such as Hungary and Bulgaria.

Omar Bashir: An incredible talent, raised in a family of artists – his grandfather Bachri Abdel Aziz, his father Mounir Bashir and his uncle Jamil were musicians – he began his musical training when he was five years old, when his father gave him his first violin. When he was seven years old, he already frequented the Conservatory of Bagdad and when he was nine he gave his first solo concert. Moving to Hungary in 1991, the homeland of his mother, he studied piano, singing and direction of choir at the Liszt University. Since 1990 Omar Bashir has been playing the oud as a professional. Apart from solo tours he has realized a lot of concerts with his father Mounir, who’s great virtuosity represented a constant stimulus for the young artist.

Track List:
1 -  Fôg el-Nakhel (Above the Palm Trees) (12:43) فوق النخل
2 -  Pastâ Baghdadiyya [Popular Iraqi Tune] (08:06) بسطة بغدادية
3 -  Hanân (Tenderness) (12:43) حنان
4 -  Dabka (Iraqi Dance) (10:41) دبكة
5 -  Ishtâr (Assyrian-Babylonian Goddess of Fertility) (13:36) عشتار
6 -  Al-Amira Al-Andaluciyya (The Andalusian Princess) (11:36) الأميرة الأندلسية

Duration : 69:22 | Bitarte : 320 kBit/s | Year : 1998 | Size : 165 mb

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"سرد" هو الألبوم الموسيقي الأول للموسيقي وعازف العود نزار روحانا.

يتميز هذا العمل بانسجام اللهجة الشرقية الخالصة لآلة العود مع تعبير وإيقاعات معاصرة، فإلى جانب العود تشترك في بعض المقطوعات آلات مختلفة مثل الكونتراباص والإيقاع والقانون.

يتضمن الألبوم خمسة الحان من تأليف نزار روحانا هي سرد، أم الزينات، حجاز، عجم وعراق إلى جانب توزيعات لبعض الألحان الموروثة. تم إنتاج هذا العمل بمساعدة منحة من المورد الثقافي (مصر)، كما وساعد في الإنتاج مركز الأرموي لموسيقى المشرق (فلسطين).

Modern compositions for Oud and other instruments such as Double Bass, Qanoun and Percussion,Sard (Narration, in Arabic) is a unique music production from Palestine. In it the authenticity of the oud language is highly maintained, yet refreshing new expressions and rhythms are achieved through the dialogues with other instruments such as the double bass, the qanoun and the percussion.

Nizar Rohana is a prominent Oud player in the Palestinian musical scene. Rohana was born in the village of ‘Esefya on Mount Carmel in 1975. Nizar began his musical journey at an early age by playing the piano. At the age of fifteen, he discovered his father’s old Oud and since then he has been exploring his own Arab and eastern musical heritage. In 1996 he moved to Jerusalem to take up academic studies. Focusing his research on the music of the great Egyptian composer Mohammad el-Qasabji, Rohana completed his Masters degree in Musicology 2006.

Rohana’s experience as a performer is very rich and he has been playing in different groups and in different formats of Arabic classical, experimental and world music.

Together with an intensive activity on the local musical scene, during the last ten years Rohana has been performing in many countries around the world such as Japan, Morocco, Egypt, United States, Spain, England, Italy, France, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Portugal and Switzerland.

Nizar Rohana launched his first music album "Sard" (Narration in Arabic) in May 2008. In it the authenticity of the oud language is highly maintained, yet refreshing new expressions and rhythms are achieved through the dialogues with other instruments such as the double bass, the qanoun and the percussion.

The album includes five pieces composed by Nizar Rohana: Sard, Umm El Zeinat, Iraq, Ajam, and Hijaz. In addition, two familiar tunes were specially arranged for this recording: Sama’i Farahfaza by Jamil Al-Tanbouri (arranged by Khaled Jubran), and Ya rayeh sawb bladi by Ahmad Qaabour.

The participating musicians on the album are :

Nizar Rohana – oud, Hani Assad – percussion, Geoffroi Delori – double bass, Waffa Zaghal – qanoun and Khaled Jubran – musical supervision.

This production was partly financed by Cultural Resource (Egypt) in collaboration with Al-Urmawi Centre (Palestine).

Track List:
1 -  Sard (Narration) (06:14) سرد
2 -  Emm el Zeinat (06:32) أم الزينات
3 -  Ajam (08:02) عجم
4 -  Iraq (04:56) عراق
5 -  Sama’i Farahfaza (06:27) سماعي فرحفزا
6 -  Hijaz (06:22) حجاز
7 -  Ya rayeh sawb bladi (07:03) يارايح صوب بلادي

Duration: 45:32 | Bitrate: 192 kBit/s | Year: 0000 | Size: 65mb

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Although it’s a dual-leader album, in which oud player Dhafer Youssef‘s performance is at least as important as that of guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, one of Glow’s chief causes for celebration is Muthspiel’s on-form presence. After releasing the shimmeringly beautiful Bright Side (Material Records, 2006)—a little-known masterpiece which may yet take its place alongside such jazz guitar iconographs as Johnny Smith’s Moonlight In Vermont (Roulette, 1953, reissued 2004) and Wes Montgomery’s Incredible Jazz Guitar (Riverside, 1960)—Muthspiel’s project with drummer Brian Blade, Friendly Travelers (Material Records, 2007), was a disappointment, interesting in conception but not entirely convincing in execution.

Glow finds Muthspiel back in immaculate form as both guitarist and producer (significantly, the Blade album was a co-production while the Youssef is solely produced by Muthspiel). The disc reunites the Tunisian oud player and Austrian guitarist after a gap of six years following Muthspiel’s playing and composing collaboration on Youssef’s Electric Sufi (Enja, 2001). The album, Youssef’s breakthrough, was a thrilling, perfectly realized collision of traditional Maghrebi music, European jazz and a lively slab of dirty, visceral rock.

Glow inhabits similar territory, but with a broader, and perhaps deeper, emotional range. In large part this is down to Youssef’s singing, which Muthspiel, as producer, has coaxed to new expressive peaks. At times Youssef’s voice achieves the ecstatic intensity of the late Pakistani qawwali master Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, at others it suggests the winsome vulnerability of the late electric troubadour Jeff Buckley. He sounds by turns beatific and scary, caressing and chilling, alternating lustrous tenor passages with tortured, almost weeping, falsetto. It’s an extraordinary performance.

Extraordinary, too, is the instrumental content and, again, comparisons with Electric Sufi are pertinent. The earlier album was recorded by a nine-piece, the new one by a quintet. The smaller line-up retains a trumpeter, with Tom Harrell replacing Markus Stockhausen, but makes more of the interaction between Youssef and Muthspiel. Both have an exquisite gift for melody, and an understanding of the power of silence, and both place every note with precision. It’s a commonplace to say such and such a musician "makes every note count," but Muthspiel, in particular, really does.

Glow uses electronic wizardry with a lighter touch than its predecessor, though textural post-production continues to be a feature of Muthspiel’s work. Alegre Correa replaces drummers Mino Cinelu and Will Calhoun, and works in intimate partnership with the young bassist Matthias Pichler (who debuted so brilliantly on Bright Side).

Some music has the ability to condense time, a smaller proportion stretches it. Glow, its every bar a micro-world of eventful creation, is amongst the latter.

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Musicians:
Dhafer Youssef: voice, oud.
Wolfgang Muthspiel: guitars, violin, programming.
Fender Rhodes piano.
Tom Harrell: trumpet, flugelhorn.
Matthias Pichler: bass.
Alegre Correa: drums, percussion.
Rebekka Bakken: voice (9).

Track List:
1 – Mon Parfum (02:58)
2 – Babylon (06:00)
3 – Sand Dance (04:47)
4 – Mein Versprechen (06:55)
5 – Etude #3 (05:06)
6 – Lamento (03:31)
7 – Maya (05:10)
8 – Emmerich (05:34)
9 – Cosmology (06:01)
10 – Rhapsodie (03:34)

Duration: 49:36 | Bitrate: 320 kBit/s | Year: 2007 | Size: 117 mb

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