Furat Qaddouri 

Born in Baghdad, to a prominent family of musicians whose father Hussein Qaddouri was a musicologist that specialized in children’s’ folk songs & rhymes.
 Furat Is one of the world’s prominent Qanoun player and composer He has taught music since graduating from the Baghdad School of Music & Ballet and in the Institute of Musical School & Academy of Fine Arts in. Furat extended the usage of Qanoun into being an instrument that can be played solo and has succeeded in bringing out the unique and expressive tunes. He participated in several international events which enabled him to mix and incorporate the rhythm of various cultures specifically with Jazz and Latin Tunes.

During 1998 in Jordan, Furat released his First album ‘Mesopotamian Qanoun’. His album successfully proved his ability to solely play the Qanoun as a stand-alone instrument. His innovativeness leads him to blend other tunes to his music such as the Caribbean and Latin tunes then he released his second album “The Spirit Calls”. His relocation to Belgium, Germany & United Arab Emirates increased his cultural awareness and expanded his musical capabilities. His 3rd album, yet another more mature achievement was “Hanging Gardens” which is a tale about two people vowing eternal love to each other. Furat uses the Qanoun as the central key-instrument and links it in a fun-dialogical approach with other instruments incorporating traditional Iraqi music and other Middle Eastern rhythms.
Furat Qaddouri he is the founder of Furat Qaddouri Music Center the first Music & Ballet Academy in Sharjah. And founder of Sharjah World Music Festival.


English below.
هشام عريش هو عازف عود ليبي من مواليد ليبيا عام 1980 حاصل على بكالوريوس من المعهد العالي لتكنولوجيا الفنون.

ألف العديد من القطع الموسيقية التي يظهر فيها ارثه الثقافي المستوحى من بلده ومن أصوله الشمال إفريقية، ومن ثقافات البلدان الأخرى.  

عضو مؤسس في الدار الليبية لدراسات العود.

Hisham Errish is a Libyan musician and an Oud soloist born in 1980. He has a BA in Music.
Influenced by his father, he started playing Oud at the age of 12.

His Musical compositions are influenced by his cultural heritage of his North African roots, and the surrounding cultures of other nations.

He is currently a co-founding member of the Libyan House for Oud Studies.

Seyir Muzik label was born thanks to the encounter of musicians, musicologists, sound engineers and instrument makers, gathered by the drive to share their passion for music.

Travel, path, route… The word seyir evokes theses ideas, whereas calling a feeling of magic. In music, seyir is the itinerary followed by the melody inside a given scale. The layout of the notes, its seyir, defines the makam one is part of. To free ourselves from the codes, we interest ourselves in the melody windings.

Seyir Muzik is a research center on Turkish and Mediterranean music based in Brussels. It already proposes many activities, among which the music academy : weekly music lessons, listening moments, seminars, conferences are being held the whole year in premises at Rue du Bailli.

The musical agitation raised by these events leads us to go further in the knowledge of musics we love. During many projects we realized, we collaborated with great classical, popular and traditional musicians. We think it is essential to make them easier to reach for the audience. Therefore we gave birth to a musical label, that will allow us to broadcast excellent quality recordings that resulted from these encounters.

Seyir Muzik invites the audience to improve their quality of listening by proposing projects whose selection will be based on musical value.

A hearing committee whose members are sensitized by their profession and the experiences they have gathered each in their field. The quality of the artists we want to gather, our care in the selection of the repertoire presented and our conscientious work of the sound in the recordings are the thread of our label.

Resolutely oriented towards the East, on the outskirts of the Mediterranean sea, our label will also open to other traditions by the collaborations that have been created over time, while remaining in an acoustic spirit, respect for ancestral heritages still alive today. The albums we produce will be broadcast both physically and digitally throughout the world, in order to optimize their reception.

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Nawa Band is a band that is concerned with reviving and propagating muwashahat and Qudud of all forms, religious and non-religious, and documenting FUSOOL of inherited DHIKR in Syria after having compared the anciently written scripts with the orally passed down identified ones. Nawa Band performs this heritage worldwide in the most integral and sincere form, preserving its purity and spirituality to the highest level.
The band was formed in Aleppo in 2009 by the musician Ibrahim Muslimani. It gathered an elite group of musicians and performers spurred by passion to perform compositions and FUSOOL from the first half of the 20th century that were either forgotten or misrepresented through time. Nawa selects compositions according to both artistic and historical value, not merely according to ancient relevance, apart from touristic folklore.
The old Syrian composers, both acknowledged and unacknowledged, played a significant role in enriching the musical reminiscence. Our endeavour today is to document and bring their masterpieces back to life and to heartily put them in the hands of the noble audience and musicians. This comes out of a hope to contribute to the rising of a new musical renaissance with genuine and strong roots, a renaissance connecting the present with our glorious past and leading them both to a luminous future.
The name “Nawa” is in line with our musical vision. Nawa is a Maqam name and it is the fifth note in the musical scale. As in the linguistic meaning, (Nawa) stands for the (Core), the distance and destination and the voyage in between. Therefore, by Nawa, we mean a fine art in which the human travels, body and soul, from one status to another and from one level to a higher one, abandoning ghosts and valuing souls. “Every person will harvest what they intended” – this is what Nawa is about.

نــــــــوا فِرْقـــــةٌ تهتــمُّ بإحيـاء ونشْـر المُوَشّحـات والقـدود بنوعَيْهـا: الـدينيّ والـغزَليّ، وتوثيـقِ فُصولٍ من الـذّكر المـتَوارَث في سوريا، وذلك بعد مقارنة الوثائق المدونة قديمــــاً بالمتواتِر الشفهيِّ، لِتـقْديـمها بأقصى أمانةٍ مُمْكِنة، مع المحافظةِ على الرُّوح والفـِطْرة في أداءها.
تأسّست فرقـة "نـــوا" في مدينة حلب عام 2009 بقيادة الفنان إبراهيم مُسلماني، وضمّت ثلّـــةً من الموسيقيين والمنشدين تجمعهم الرغبة في تقديم ألحانٍ وفُصولٍ يعودُ تاريخُها إلى ما قبل النصف الأوّل من القرن العشرين كانت قد نُسِيَت أو حُرِّفتْ عبـــرَ السنين. تخـتار فرقة نوا الألحــانَ حسبَ جمـالهـا الفنّـي وقـيـمتهــا التـاريخيــةِ معــاً، بعيــداً عن الفلكلـــــور السياحي والمستهلك.
كان للملحِّنين السوريين القُدامى، المعروفين منهم والمغمورين، أثــرٌ جليلٌ في إغنـــــاء الـذاكـرة الموسيقيـة. وإن اهتمامَنـا اليومَ بتوثيق أعمالهـم وإخــراجَها إلى النـور، ووضعِهـا بين أيــدي نُخْبــةِ المستمِعين والموسيقيين، يدفعهُ الأملُ بنهضةٍ موسيقيةٍ جديدةٍ قائمةٍ على أُسُسٍ فنيّةٍ أصيــلة، تنطلق إلى المستقبل بأجنحةٍ من الحاضر والماضي…
ويــأتي الاسـم "نـــــوا"منسجمـاً مـع رؤيتنـا المـوسيقيـة، فـكمـا أن "النَّــوى" اســمٌ لمقـــــــامٍ موسيقـي، واسـمٌ للدرجـةِ الخامسةِ في السُّلَّم المـوسيقي، وكمـا أن "النَّـوى" في اللغـة هــــو اللــبُّ، القصـدُ والرّحيـل، وطـرحُ الفضول، فكـذلك نقصـد في "نـــــوا" فنّــاً يَرْحــلُ فيــه الإنسـان بِلبِّـــه وقلبِــه مـن حـــالٍ إلى حـــالٍ، ومـن مقـــامٍ إلى مقـــامٍ أسْمـى، طـارحــاً غبـــارَ الأشبــاحِ، قاصــداً صفـــاءَ الأرواحِ. هـذا، ولـكل امـرئٍ مـا نـوى.

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