Nizar Rohana is a Palestinian ud player and composer based in The Netherlands, distinguished for combining virtuosity within fresh contemporary compositions while maintaining the ud’s authentic language. In his podcast for Gaudeamus, he unravels the relationship between improvisation and composition in taqsim (Arabic improvised music), focusing on temporal aspects of taqsim and on the historical inventions by ud pioneers like Munir Bashir.

Full list of musical fragments played in the podcast:

1. Riyad al-Sunbaṭi, taqsim hijaz
2. Simon Shaheen, Taqasim on the Beat 
3. Nizar Rohana, taqsim nahawand
4. Salih Abd al-Hai, mawwal: adhak men al-fum 
5. Muhammad al-Qasabji, taqsim nahawand
6. Muhammad al-Qasabji, taqsim bayati
7. Riyad al-Sunbati, taqsim nahawand
8. Munir Bashir, taqasim nahawand kabir
9. Nizar Rohana, Mufradat Nahawand

Production: Soundtreks / Michiel van de Weerthof
Curator: Jonás Bisquert

www.gaudeamus.nl

Taqsim journey: appreciating temporal aspects in ‘Ud improvisation

Ghulam Jailani 01

Peppe Frana: medieval lute
Pere Olivé: tamburello

Live performance from Trença Ensemble concert in Bruges

Trença Ensemble is: Anna Danilevskaia, Atsushi Moriya, Pere Olivé, Peppe Frana

Sound recording: Tomas Bernaus Lopez

Chominciamento Di Gioia

A tune I wrote years ago as a wedding gift for two very special friends, conceived on a wide empty beach by the ocean in Brittany. Featuring another very special friend on guitar.

Krishna Nagaraja, violin and viola
Paolo Dal Broi, guitar

Lines in the sand

Con las flores y los bichos

Siah Chashman

Meccanismi di volo
Francesco Massaro & Bestiario

Francesco Massaro: sax baritono, clarinetto basso
Mariasole De Pascali: piccolo, flauto, flauto contralto
Gianni Lenoci: pianoforte, pianoforte preparato
Michele Ciccimarra: batteria, cupa cupa, percussioni
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Adolfo La Volpe: chitarra elettrica, live electronics
Valerio Daniele: chitarra elettrica baritona, live electronics

registrato nel maggio 2017
tutte le composizioni di Francesco Massaro & Bestiario

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Meccanismi di volo

Sa zenti arrubia

Fall

Poi dice che uno è anticlericale... Provavo ad esercitarmi sul makam ussak, ma le chiese scampanano a tutte le ore, disturbando impunemente la quiete pubblica e il lavoro altrui.

Campane di merda

"The Mothra Effect" by Italian master improvisors Mothra from their new self-titled LP. Made in collaboration with Vintage Vinyl HK and Platinum Metres.

                              

The Mothra Effect

An exorcism to avoid hail from Abruzzo combined with the evocative Kanushi Kanada raga.
Tradition changes direction and meets psychedelia.
Elena D'Ascenzo: vocals
Renata Frana: dilruba, synth.

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