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خيام اللامي - ألفٌ أوجٌ

Hungarian Rhapsody No.2, simplified version with original cadenza - Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886)

Pianist: Ryo Fukaura, UCL medical student, playing the piece from memory, in the Peter Samuel Hall at the Royal Free Hospital.

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Ryo Fukaura: Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No.2

Adel Haky - Hekayet Hayah '' Sound Track "

خيام اللامي موسيقي وعازف عود عراقي ولد في دمشق في 1981 ثم انتقل مع عائلته الى العاصمة البريطانية لندن في 1990. ابتدء دراسة آلة العود متاخرا في 2004 مع استاذه الفنان العراقي إحسان الإمام المقيم في لندن. حصل على شهادات البكلوريوس والماجستير من مدرسة الدراسات الشرقية والافريقية (جامعة لندن) اين يدرس فيها آلة العود حاليا. أثناء دراساته سافر إلى القاهرة للبحث والدراسة في بيت العود العربي وإلى إسطنبول للدراسة مع أستاذ محمد بيتم. حصل على عدد من المنح البحثية والدعم من الإذاعة البريطانية بي بي سي راديو ٣ ليكون أول من يتلقى منحة أطلقها برنامج World Routes باسم (World Routes Academy) للعام 2010. في تموز\يونيو 2011 نشر أول البوم عود منفرد له بعنوان "رنين أقل" على CD وDVD عبر شركة نوى للتسجيلات التي أسسها في لندن.

خيام اللامي - توازن

Oud taqsin ni maqam Iraq.

Limited to modulations and stylistic traits of court music from the 15th to 17th century, Timurid, Safavid and Ottoman. As found in the Ali Ufki (1610-1675) and Demetrius Cantemir (1673 -1723) notations and the early oral repertoire.

Iraq Oud Taqsim

Oud taqsim in maqam Saba Qadim (old saba)

Saba Qadim Oud Taqsim

Oud taqsim in maqam Buselik, based on the 16th / 17th century version of the maqam.

Buselik Oud Taqsim

2002

Egyptian Suite

Instrument + Piano
For Cello and Piano on 5 Egyptian folk themes
· Salma Ya Salama
· Ya NAkhlitin fil Alaly
· Atshan Ya Sabaya
· Ayyob
· Kont fen ya Alli
The Winner work of the Egyptian supreme council of culture composition competition 2003 (first Prize between 3 candidates)

Egyptian Suit For Cello And Piano 1st Movement Salma Ya Salama

2005
 
Dancing on dead bodies

Piano Trio
Piano Trio

Program Notes
·      1st. Movement
Adagio
Current Events
Slow scene, usually repeated at every moment and connected with any kind of a massacre in the Middle East or anywhere in the world.
Always we see the same scene of ambulances collects scattered Corpses in various parts. this scene always telling us about a tragedy, telling us about the strength of the human suffering from the war scourge, it always reaffirms and confirm that the war mean's nothing but the life itself.
·      2nd. Movement
Allegro Agitato
Flash Back
As events rapidly with the disasters, second movement tells us the story of the strong warrior, the person who always gives the order, to let the war starts, although it was always a tongue's dance, but it's always like an ugly dance, the dance, which kills a thousand of innocents.
The dance transited from tongue's movement, to be the dance of the death, which has effected to escape the soul from the live human ground objects

Dancing On Dead Bodies Piano Trio For Violin Cello And Piano Berlin Concert

Ballade No. 1, Op.23 - Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)

Pianist: Ryo Fukaura, UCL medical student, playing the piece from memory, in the Peter Samuel Hall at the Royal Free Hospital.

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Ryo Fukaura: Chopin Ballade No. 1, Op.23

Sultan MUSIC  -  Fahir Atakoğlu

Warhawe FT Ahmed Abou El-Yazid (Zizo)

A composition of mine based on the Sirto dance form.
The first two Khanat (verses, sections) and Taslim (chorus, refrain) are in 2/4 and the last Khana in 7/8 (Dawr Turan).
The Sirto is a line dance.
'Syrtos is mentioned as a traditional Greek dance already in ancient Greece and the word derives from the Greek verb "σύρω" (surō), "to draw, to drag". The word syrtos has been borrowed as sirto for a couples dance from the Pirin region in Bulgaria, and is one of the most liked folk dances and music in Cyprus. However, it is easy to also observe the Turkish motives in the ones used in Cyprus. Ottoman sultans enjoyed this Greek music form and composed songs in that form.' (From Wikipedia).
This maqam was created by Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi (1778-1846), a Turkish Ottoman composer known as the 'Beethoven of Ottoman art music'.
The modulations are to Rast and Hijazkar Kurdi.


Nawa Athar Sirto Hall

This track has its beginning at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in 2010. The danish producerteam Lulu Rouge was commissioned to play a mix of electronic music with jazz classics of great Nina Simone.  This is one of their mixes played live that summer evening.
Lulu Rouge returned to the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in 2011 in tribute of Billie Holiday.

Hope you enjoy it..

Nina Simone + Lulu Rouge - Black Is The Colour Of Lulu Rouge (not released/2010)

Ibrahim Maalouf - Album: Diachronism / Disoriental

Naga (Saalouni Ennass)

Ibrahim Maalouf - Diachronism / Disoriental

Trumpet-Saz Improvisation

HASHISH

Oud improvisation

Famous Iraqi piece in maqam Hijaz and another version of il-'Hilwa di.
The taqsim modulates to Saba.
Featuring the amazing percussionists Douglas Brush and Tim Sellers on darabukka and riqq. 


Hijaz Iraqi melody & il-Hilwa di

Give Me Everything

Give Me Everything (feat. Nayer)

Melody: Hamza Namira
Oud: Mamdouh El Gebali
Buzuk: Ali Yilmaz
Arrangement: Odul Erdogan
Mixing: Hamza Namira

Hamza Namira Ibn El Watan - Instrumental

سماعيات عربية - سماعي حجاز كار كورد

موسيقى عود حزين

Keith Jarrett Trio - Autumn Leaves

ضرير البصر بالقلب السليم...
ينفع يشوف فين السبيل...
فين السبيل

يمكن في بنت تصدقو لو قالها بيحبها...
بيحبها

واياك تقولي مين وصفلو شكلها...
وعرف منين طول شعرها..؟

اومين حكالو عن حسنها.؟

العين يا ناس بتشوف ملامح...
لكن الضرير بيشوف ضمير

العين يا ناس بتشوف ملامح...
لكن الضرير بيشوف ضمير

ضرير البصر بي القلب السليم ينفع يشوف فين السبيل

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ضرير البصر "عشرة غربي" (احلي توزيع من وجهه نظري)

Nihavent Oriental-Cafe Anatolia - موسيقى نهاوند شرقي

The Budos Band - Unbroken, Unshaven

Inspired by classic Egyptian music from the 50s/60s, particularly the Raqs Sharqi (Bellydance) music of Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Farid El Atrache

Hijaz Nashaz

Inspired by the music of Moorish Spain, a time of intertwined cultures, with a mix of European and Arab elements.

Brian Prunka: oud, composition
Kenny Warren: muted trumpet 
Nathan Herrera: alto flute/bass clarinet
Apostolos Sideris: bass
George Mel: frame drum, cajon, ride cymbal 

Solos in order: Herrera (alto flute) Prunka (oud) and Warren (muted trumpet) 

Andalus

Inspired by the Afro-Arabic music of Sudan and Morocco, particularly the music of Abdel Gadir Salim and Slah Eddine Manaa.

Brian Prunka, oud, composition
Kenny Warren, trumpet
Nathan Herrera, alto sax
Apostolos Sideris, bass
George Mel: frame drum, brushes, cajon, ride cymbal (Mel)

Solos in order: Sideris (bass) Prunka (oud) and Warren/Herrera (trumpet/sax together) 

Khartoum

Inspired by the music of the great oudist and composer Mohamed el Qassabji, who often incorporated interesting chromatic melodies that sound possibly jazz-inspired.

“I imagined Qassibji having a dream where he time travels to now, hearing this piece of music and being slightly bewildered and horrified by what he inspired”—Brian

Brian Prunka: oud, composition
Kenny Warren: trumpet
Nathan Herrera: alto sax 
Apostolos Sideris: bass
Vin Scialla: riq
George Mel: cajon, ride cymbal ,snare drum 

Solos in order: Sideris (bass), Warren/Herrera (Tpt/Sax together), Prunka (oud) 

Qassabji's Nightmare

From their debut, self-titled album. 

Buy it here: http://bit.ly/1DenP7H

The Budos Band - Up From The South

Hamza el Din - Escalay: The Waterwheel - for String Quartet
Performed by: Berneck Quartet - January 2012 - Switzerland (Charity Concert)
Violin: Lyonel Schmit, Christop Brüggemann
Viola: David Quiggle Cello: Viturin Döring

Water Wheel is a complete description of the experience of the boy who keeps the water wheel going. He rises early, before dawn, and begins, sleepily, to hitch up the oxen, adjusting the tension so that both animals are pulling equal weight. As the wheel slowly begins to move, the huge wooden gears of the wheel creak and groan. Gradually, lulled by the warmth of the morning sun, the movement and the sound of the wheel, the boy tending the oxen begins to hum to himself. As the wheel turns more quickly and strongly, he begins singing more loudly, merging the sound of his own voice with that of the wooden gears. Eventually even his song is lost in the drone of the wheel. One gear, like one note, meshes with the other gears, and increasingly complex overtones develop like the movements of a great fugue. And the fugue grows, like waves from a pebble dropped into the water. The waves move out, touch the shore and return, making new waves until all the water is ruffled and moving. Soon the boy sitting on the water wheel becomes entranced, hypnotized by the insistent song of the wheel and he sits staring vacantly into space, only awakened from his trance by someone calling to him to keep the animals moving. In this work, Hamza El Din demonstrates clearly his mastery of the oud and his innovations in the use of this instrument. Note especially that while he plucks the bass string continually in one rhythm, he hammers with the left hand on two other strings, and uses alternatively the remaining strings to set the pattern of the melody against the other rhythms. This creates a harmonic whole, which describes perfectly in musical terms the hypnotic humming of the water wheel.

Hamza El Din war ein nubischer Oud- und Tar-Spieler und Sänger. Er wuchs im nubischen Teil Ägyptens unter dem Eindruck traditioneller nubischer Musik auf. El Din studierte an der König-Fouad-Universität in Kairo und am Musikinstitut des Ibrahim Shafiq. Am König-Fouad-Institut für mittelöstliche Musik erlernte er das Oud-Spiel, danach studierte er westliche Musik an der Accademia di St. Cecilia in Rom. Anfang der 1960er Jahre unternahm er erste Konzertreisen durch die USA, wohin er 1964, nachdem sein Heimatort in den Fluten des Assuan-Staudamms versunken war, übersiedelte. Hier entstanden Alben wie Escalay: The Water Wheel (Wasserrad), das als Schlüsselwerk der World Music gilt und Einfluss auf Komponisten wie Steve Reich und Terry Riley hatte.

Wasserrad ist eine komplette Beschreibung der Erfahrung des Jungen, der das Wasser Rad in Bewegung haelt. Er steht frühr auf, vor Sonnenaufgang, und beginnt, noch halb schlafend, die Ochsen anzuspannen, die Spannung zu pruefen, damit beide Ochsen mit demselben Gewicht ziehen. Während das Rad langsam beginnt sich zu drehen, das Riesen Getriebe des Holzrades beginnt zu ächzen und zu stöhnen. Sich um die Ochsen kümmernd, geborgen in der aufgehenden Morgensonne, und dem Klang des sich Bewegenden Rades, beginnt der Junge langsam zu summen. Mit steigender Geschwindigkeit des Rades singt der Junge lauter und lauter, seine Stimme mit dem Klang des hölzernen Getriebes zusammenkommend. Manchmal geht seine Stimme im rhythmischen Geräusch des Wasserrades unter.

Die Komposition wurde für die Oud, ein mittelöstliches, langhalsiges Saiteninstrument - Vorgänger der europäischen Laute - geschrieben und aufgenommen. 1992 wurde die Tondichtung für das Kronosquartett adaptiert.

ESCALAY - The Waterwheel - by Hamza El Din - Berneck String Quartet

Bashraf Saba ' Sakil-I Kabir'
(16th Cent, Anon', Persian, Ottoman Period).
Rhythm Sakil - 48/8
Featuring Doug Brush on riqq.

Bashraf Saba

Bashraf in maqam Segah.
Rhythm Duyak -8/8.
Doug Brush on Darabuka and daire.

Buselik Oud Taqsim

Jonathan Gemmill Oud & Nay NZ