Khyam Allami - Oud
Maurice Louca - Electronics
Lukas Ligeti - Drums

Recorded on 4 April 2013 at Beirut Art Centre, part of Irtijal Festival 2013

Maurice Louca & Khyam Allami w/Lukas Ligeti - Live at Irtijal '13 - Beirut

Individuation - تفرّد

Naghmat Tahrir - نغمة تحرير

Tawazon I:  Balance - توازن

An Alif/An Apex - ألفٌ/أوجٌ

Tawazon II:  or lack of - توازن أقل

The Descent (Maqam Nawa) - (الهبوط (مقام نوى

Reverie - حلم اليقضة

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It’s not often that you stumble on a musician at the start of his career who’s biography is as intriguing as Khyam Allami’s. Since taking up the ‘ūd (or Oud, Middle Eastern Lute) in 2004, he has already generated a “palpable buzz” about him and “left a trail of unforgettable live performances in his wake” according to the UK’s fRoots Magazine who recently put him on their cover.

Whether at small independent venues, Birmingham’s alternat

Resonance/Dissonance album preview

Khyam Allami & Vasilis Sarikis (Frame Drums) performing Reverie from Resonance/Dissonance live at De Centrale, Gent, Belgium, 31 Jan 2014.

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Reverie - Live @ De Centrale, Gent, Belgium 31 Jan 2014

The Exquisite Corpse Game
by VARIOUS ARTISTS

Fold 1: Khyam Allami
Fold 2: Karda Estra
Fold 3: JG Thirlwell
Fold 4: Kavus Torabi
Fold 5: British Theatre
Fold 6: Bob Drake
Fold 7: Weasel Walter
Fold 8: Dominique Leone
Fold 9: Appleblim
Fold 10: Katharine Blake
Fold 11: Max Tundra
Fold 12: Mikrokosmos
Fold 13: Craig Fortnam

Exquisite corpse is a method by which a collection of images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence until finally the whole completed picture is revealed.
This technique invented by the Surrealists is similar to the old parlour game, Consequences, in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the writing, and then pass it to the next player for a further contribution.


The Exquisite Corpse Game is a unique musical collaboration based on these rules, featuring Khyam Allami, Karda Estra, JG Thirlwell (Foetus/ Manorexia/ Steroid Maximus etc) Kavus Torabi (Knifeworld/ Cardiacs/ Guapo), British Theatre (Oceansize/ Biffy Clyro), Bob Drake (Thinking Plague/ 5uu's/ The Science Group etc) Weasel Walter (The Flying Luttenbachers/ Behold The Arctopus) Dominique Leone, Appleblim, Katharine Blake (Mediaeval Baebes/ Miranda Sex Garden) Max Tundra, Mikrokosmos (Levitation/ Dark Star/ Cardiacs) Craig Fortnam (North Sea Radio Orchestra/ Arch Garrison)

Once the first 'fold' was recorded each artist was given only the last 20 seconds of the previous composition and had to continue by recording instrumental music in any way they saw fit.
Whether they chose to develop themes or take an obtuse 90 degree turn was entirely up to them.

Each 'fold' had to be a response to the 20 seconds they were given and be between one and four minutes long.

None of the contributors heard the entire piece until the final 'fold' had been completed

Taken individually, The Exquisite Corpse Game represents thirteen brand new, original compositions by thirteen innovative musical artists but taken as a whole the entire album has a kaleidoscopic, dream-like yet homogenous quality. Themes and ideas seem to repeat and reoccur throughout in a way that could not have been known to the contributors. There is an ebb and flow throughout that sounds both pre-concieved and deliberate.

Fold 1: Khyam Allami

Recorded live in Damascus 2010 for BBC Radio 3

Naghmat Tahrir w/Taoufik Meerkhan from World Routes On the Road

The second track from a free, download only, two-track EP.

Recorded and Mixed by Crawford Blair at Angell Sound Studios, London, 22 July and 13 Aug 2010. 
1- The Sound of Disquiet 
2- What if I asked you what is the question?

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What if I asked you what is the question? w/Andrea Piccioni

The first track from a free, download only, two-track EP. 

Recorded and Mixed by Crawford Blair at Angell Sound Studios, London, 22 July and 13 Aug 2010.
1- The Sound of Disquiet
2- What if I asked you what is the question?

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http://www.andreapiccioni.net


The Sound of Disquiet w/Andrea Piccioni

New arrangements of Cypriot Folk Songs. Session for BBC Radio 3's World Routes broadcast 12th June 2010. Khyam Allami ('Ud), Nicoletta Demetriou (Vocals), Jacob Olley (Nay)

I vrisi ton Peyiotisson (The Well of Peyiotisses) w/Nicoletta Demetriou

Foni Pafitissa (Song from Pafos) w/Nicoletta Demetriou

To yiasemin (The Jasmine) w/Nicoletta Demetriou

To tertin tis kartoullas mou (The Sorrow of My Little Heart) w/Nicoletta Demetriou

Live on BBC R3's In Tune, 22 June 2012 with Vasilis Sarikis on Percussion 

Khyam Allami - Tawazon I: Balance (Live on BBC R3)

Live and studio recordings:

1 - Maqam al-Khanabat - Live at Royal Albert Hall, BBC Prom 33, Aug 2010
2 - Segah -  Live at Royal Albert Hall, BBC Prom 33, Aug 2010
3 - Maqam Dasht - Live at WOMAD UK, BBC Radio 3 Stage, July 2010
4 - Sound of Disquiet - Studio recording
5 - What if I asked you what is the question? - Studio recording


Maqam al-Khanabat w/Andrea Piccioni

Live and studio recordings:

1 - Maqam al-Khanabat - Live at Royal Albert Hall, BBC Prom 33, Aug 2010
2 - Segah -  Live at Royal Albert Hall, BBC Prom 33, Aug 2010
3 - Maqam Dasht - Live at WOMAD UK, BBC Radio 3 Stage, July 2010
4 - Sound of Disquiet - Studio recording
5 - What if I asked you what is the question? - Studio recording


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