Munir Bashir - Maqam Nahawand

For The Last Noble woman, She Shall Become.

Agora - The Skies Do Not Fall - هيباتيا

0:01 - I. Largo
0:30 - II. Allegro Molto
6:35  - III .Allegretto
10:23 - Iv. Largo
13:54 - V. Largo

D. Shostakovich - Kammersinfonie Op. 110A

Mental Dialectic Comes To Expression, 1877.

The Diary Of A Tortured Soul, 1922.

الورد جميل - مقام هزام

Rahat Al Arwah

Somewhere Else - Ziad El Ahmadie

A Short Film About Love

The name Furud derives from the Arabic ألفرود al-furūd "the solitary ones". This was an appellation early Arab poets used for a number of anonymous stars.

Madar (literally an ‘Orbit’) is a group of five musicians from the Netherlands, Palestine, Jordan and Tunisia. With genuine curiosity for and understanding of each other’s musical language, they have come together with the purpose of creating something new, built on a deeply shared respect for the qualities of their various musical worlds.

Acamar, from the Arabic Ākhir an-nahr meaning "the end of the river", is a star located in the constellation Eridanus, variously associated by ancient astronomers with rivers across the Mediterranean and Middle East, including the Nile, Po and Euphrates. The music in this album is inspired by the classical civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean which relied in daily life on an understanding of the cosmos.

Jasser Haj Youssef - viola d’amore 
Maarten Ornstein - clarinet 
Nizar Rohana - ud 
Tony Overwater - upright bass, violone 
Nasser Salameh - percussion

1. Madar Bayati (Nizar Rohana) 4:26
2. Sofia (Maarten Ornstein) 3:06
3. Acamar (Nizar Rohana) 4:58
4. Silence (Jasser Haj Youssef) 5:11
5. Abakua (Tony Overwater) 2:26
6. Furud (Rohana, Overwater, Haj Youssef, Ornstein) 4:59
7. Not the rain (Maarten Ornstein) 5:03
8. Gemini (Tony Overwater) 3:19
9. Doulab (Jasser Haj Youssef) 6:10
10. Hills of Delphi (Tony Overwater) 4:57

Recorded at Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum; 26 and 27 september 2018
Recorded and mixed by Fieke van den Hurk
Mastering: Frans de Rond

Pictures: Floris Scheplitz
Design: Ruud Overwater

Produced by Kepera Records

This album was supported by The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)

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