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The oud (Arabic: عود‎ ʿūd; Somali: Kaban; Persian: بربط barbat; Turkish: ud or ut; Greek: ούτι; Armenian: ուդ, Azeri: ud; Hebrew: עוד ud) is a pear-shaped, stringed instrument, which is often seen as the predecessor of the western lute, distinguished primarily by being without frets, commonly used in Middle Eastern music.

According to Farabi, the oud was invented by Lamech, the sixth grandson of Adam. The legend tells that the grieving Lamech hung the body of his dead son from a tree. The first oud was inspired by the shape of his son's bleached skeleton.[2] The oldest pictorial record of a lute dates back to the Uruk period in Southern Mesopotamia - Iraq - Nasria city nowadays, over 5000 years ago on a cylinder seal acquired by Dr. Dominique Collon and currently housed at the British Museum. The image depicts a female crouching with her instruments upon a boat, playing right-handed. This instrument appears many times throughout Mesopotamian history and again in ancient Egypt from the 18th dynasty onwards in long and short-neck varieties. One may see such examples at the Metropolitan Museums of New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and the British Museum on clay tablets and papyrus paper. This instrument and its close relatives have been a part of the music of each of the ancient civilizations that have existed in the Mediterranean and the Middle East regions, including the Sumerians, Akkadians, Persians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Armenians, Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans.

The ancient Turkic peoples had a similar instrument called the kopuz. This instrument was thought to have magical powers and was brought to wars and used in military bands. This is noted in the Göktürk monument inscriptions, the military band was later used by other Turkic state's armies and later by Europeans.[3] According to Musicolog Çinuçen Tanrıkorur today's oud was derived from the kopuz by Turks near Central Asia and additional strings were added by them.[4] Today's oud is totally different from the old prototypes and the Turkish oud is different from Arabic oud in playing style and shape. The Turkish is derived from modifying the Arabic oud, whose development has been attributed to Manolis Venios, a well known Greek luthier who lived Constantinople (Istanbul) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[citation needed] In Greece and Armenia musicians especially use the Turkish ouds and tunings.[citation needed]

Aleppo musician with an oud, 1915.The oud has a particularly long tradition in Iraq,[5] where a saying goes that in its music lies the country’s soul.[5] A ninth-century Baghdad jurist praised the healing powers of the instrument, and the 19th century writer Muhammad Shihab al-Din related that it "places the temperament in equilibrium" and "calms and revives hearts."[5] Following the invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of the secular Hussein regime in 2003, however, the increasing fervor of Islamic militants who consider secular music to be haraam (forbidden) forced many Oud players or teachers into hiding or exile

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Omar Bashir
To My Father
Omar Bashir presents a selection of taqasim and melodies composed by his father Munir Bashir.

Artist: Omar Bashir
CD title: To My Father
Release date: 2003
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Ethnic
Time: 00:51:54
Total size: 79,1 MB
Info: Cover-art included

Tracks:
01 Taqassim Maqam Rast (Iraqi Folk) [00:12:04]
02 Taqassim Maqam Nahawand (Turkish Folk) [00:09:07]
03 Taqassim Maqam Ajam - Talaa Min Beit Abouha (Iraqi Folk) [00:04:10]
04 Improvisation - Oum El Rouba (Munir Bashir) [00:12:05]
05 Ichbilia - Nareen (Munir Bashir) [00:14:26]

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Background information:
Omar Bashir: An incredible talent, raised in a family of artists – his grandfather Bachri Abdel Aziz, his father Mounir Bashir and his uncle Jamil were musicians – he began his musical training when he was five years old, when his father gave him his first violin.

When he was seven years old, he already frequented the Conservatory of Bagdad and when he was nine he gave his first solo concert.

Moving to Hungary in 1991, the homeland of his mother, he studied piano, singing and direction of choir at the Liszt University.

Since 1990 Omar Bashir has been playing the oud as a professional. Apart from solo tours he has realized a lot of concerts with his father Mounir, who’s great virtuosity represented a constant stimulus for the young artist (he died in 1997).

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Omar Metioui – Laúd Andalusí

Album: Laúd Andalusí
Artist : Omar Metioui
Release date : 1997
Number of discs : 1
Label : Sony Hyspanica
Genre : Ethnic
Sub-Genre : Arabo-Andalous
Total size : 45,8 MB
Total time: 00:50:01

Individual track details :
Tab' s-Sika
1. Taqsim
Tab' al-Hiyaz al-Kabir
2. Bugya
3. Twisya de la Nuba
4. Taqsim
5. Twisya de la San' a
Tab' al-Istihlal
6. Taqsim
7. San' as Dary
Tab' 'Iraq al-'Ayam
8. Kursi Basit
9. Taqsim
10. Twishya de la Nuba
Tab' s-Sahli
11. Taqsim
Ibn al-Farid (1181-1235)
12. Muwwal (Show them, haughty and alluring)

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Omar Metioui was born in Tangiers, Morocco in 1962. He initially studied pharmacology in Brussels, before returning to Tangiers to study solmization, Andalusi singing and oud at the Conservatory of Music and Dance. Between 1976 and 1980 he sang and played the oud with El Arbi s-Siyyar, the main Andalusi orchestra in Tangiers. He is currently first lute with the Conservatory orchestra, and continues to perform throughout Europe and the Arab world.

Performers:
Omar Metioui (lute), Saad Temsamani (chant), Abdeslam Sefiani (tar).

Recording site and date:
Refectory of the Converted Brethren of the Cistercian Monastery of Santa Maria de Huerta, Soria, Spain [06/1997]

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Hamza El Din
Escalay (The Water Weel)

Album : Escalay (The Water Wheel)
Artist : Hamza El Din
Release date : 1971
Label : Nonesuch
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 95 MB (mp3), 186 MB (FLAC)
Total time : 00:38:06

Tracks:
01-The Water Weel
02-I Remember
03-Song with Tar

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When this set--part of the Nonesuch Explorer Series--was first released, Hamza El Din had already headlined at the Newport Folk Festival and Woodstock and released an album on the Vanguard label. But this was the one that put him on the map, bringing his oud (Arab lute,) tar (an ancient frame drum), and plaintive vocals to a much wider audience. Born in 1929, El Din has dedicated his life to the music of his ancestral homeland of Nubia, much of which now lies underwater in the shadow of the Aswan Dam. The title track, a 21-minute meditation based on the creaking, rhythmic sounds of a wooden water wheel, later became his signature work. Despite the unadorned simplicity of his forces, El Din evokes centuries of laboring agrarian workers. He later re-recorded the piece several times, including a version with the Kronos Quartet, but he has never quite duplicated the tidal ebb-and-flow of the original performance. --Christina Roden

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Naseer Shamma – Maqamat Zíryáb

Album : Maqamat Zíryáb
Artist : Naseer Shamma
Release date : 2003
Number of discs : 1
Label : Pneuma
Catalog # : PN-480
Genre : Ethnic
Sub-Genre : Arabo-Andalous
Total size : 148 MB (mp3), 286 MB (FLAC & CUE)
Total time : 01:04:58

Tracks :
1. "Dau' ar-ruh" (Light of the soul) - Maqám Hiyáz
2. Hilal as-Sabá
3. Dance of the Horse - Maqám Naháwand
4. Awshar - Maqám Awshar
5. Discourse of the soul - Maqám Ajam
6. Maqam Rast
7. "Zada al-Garam" (Love grew) - Maqám Naháwand

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Improvisations, variations and compositions describing Ziryáb's journey from Baghdad to Cordova more than one thousand years ago Ziryab, one of the most important names in Andalusí music, was a great singer at the court of Harun al-Rashidnin Baghdad during the 9th century After a quarrel, he left and settled in Al-Andalus, founding a music school in Córdoba His influence extended to Seville, Granada, Toledo and Valencia, and thence to Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, where it may still be felt todayThe Iraqi lutenist Naseer Shamma here cements this complex web of traditions stemming from Ziryab with a disc of his own improvisations (all informed by his own extensive knowledge as performer, musicologist and teacher) on the maqamat (loosely translatable as modes) brought by Ziryab when he left Baghdad

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Munir Bashir & Omar Bashir – Duo de ‘ûd

Album : Duo de ‘ûd
Artist : Munir Bashir & Omar Bashir
Release date : 1998
Label : Auvidis
Catalog # : B 6874
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 82 MB
Total time : 00:35:50

Tracks :
1 Fôg el-Nakhel (Above the palm trees)
2 Pastâ Baghdadiyya (Popular Iraqi Tune)
3 Hanân (Tenderness)
4 Dabkâ (Iraqi Dance)
5 Ishtâr (Goddess of fertility)
6 Al-Amira al-Andaluciyya (Andalusian Princess)

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This pairing of Munir Bashir with his son Omar features a selection of Arab urban songs (baladi) . The second oud is used within each piece to provide a 'dialogue' and echo of the first.

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Alla (Abdelaziz Abdellah)
Le Foundou de Bechar

Album : Le Foundou de Bechar
Artist : Alla (Abdelaziz Abdellah)
Release date : 1995
Original Release Date : 1994
Label : Al Sur
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 102 MB
Total time : 00:4:28

Tracks :
1. Improvisation
2. Le Foundou
3. Improvisations

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Abdelaziz Abdellah, known by his nickname "Alla", is a self-taught Algerian oud player who developed his own style of improvisation and became known as an unusually creative virtuoso who improvised in a very different style of oud than other masters. He comes from Bechar in the Algerian Sahara and his music is ample and has a spiritual dimension. It is intense and light at the same time and brings that inner silence that takes its roots in the desert. Alla is recognised as the best oud player in all of southern Oran. He has held several concerts in Europe, including the Theatre de la Ville in Paris. Recently he began mixing accents from other Mediterranean regions in his music.

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Hamza El Din
Music of Nubia

Album : Music of Nubia
Artist : Hamza El Din
Release date : 1991
Original release date : 1964
Label : Vanguard Records
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 58,6 MB
Total time : 00:42:35

Tracks :
1. Fegir Nedan :: Call To Worship
2. Desse Barama :: Peace
3. Aiga Denos Ailanga :: Give Back My Heart
4. Hoi to Irkil Fagiu :: The Message Bearer
5. Kuto Fa Pattaroni :: Children's Songs
6. Shahadag Og :: Believe!
7. Nabra :: Raw Gold
8. Nubala :: Nubiana

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Hamza el-Din was born in Nubia, amongst the people of the Upper Nile. While studying engineering in Cairo he took up the oud, and later went on to study the instrument at the Conservatory of Music in Cairo during his spare time. It was at this time, and while undertaking further study in Rome, that he began to develop his unique style, which blends themes from Nubian traditional music with the more structured framework of Arabic classical music.

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Naseer Shamma – Ishraq

Album : Ishraq
Artist : Naseer Shamma
Release date : 1996
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Ethnic
Total size : 100 MB
Total time : 01:12:48

Tracks :
1 Min al-qalb (From the heart)
2 Fawq al-nakhl (Over the palm tree)
3 Ishraq (Dawn)
4 Qussat kurdiya (Kurdish story)
5 Lawha (Suffering)
6 Halam al-hanin (Nostalgia)
7 'Adhuba (Transparent feeling)

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Hamza El Din
Lily of the Nile

Album : Lily of the Nile
Artist : Hamza El Din
Release date : 1995
Original Release Date : 1982
Label : Water Lily Acoustics
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 77,4 MB
Total time : 00:56:19

Tracks :
1. Bint Baladna
2. Annun Sira
3. Shortunga
4. Allah Hu Akbar
5. Hamayala

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The meeting of oud master Hamza El Din and the adventurous audiophile label Waterlily Acoustics was something that simply had to happen. El Din's music, so thoughtful and often lulling, is tailor-made for the sonic sharpness that is the label's trademark. And the result doesn't disappoint. This might not be the classic that Escalay (The Water Wheel) or A Wish are, but it's still a gorgeous record, slow and meditative, with El Din's voice and oud washing over the listener like a large Nubian wave. Pieces like "Shortunga" are ideal for contemplation; the refreshing and far more upbeat "Hamayala" brings things up to speed for the finale. Lily of the Nile is a distinct change from El Din's previous disc, Muwashshah (which teamed him with some of his Japanese students), and a real return to his roots.
--Chris Nickson

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Hamza El Din – Al Oud

Album : Al Oud
Artist : Hamza El Din
Release date : 1994
Original release date : 1965
Label : Vanguard Records
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 68,8 MB
Total time : 00:44:31

Tracks :
1. Assaramessuga (Childhood) - comp. Hamza El Din, lyrics Mohi El Din Sherif
2. Shortunga (The Spirits) - comp. Hamza El Din, lyrics Mohi El Din Sherif
3. Annun Sira' (Grandfathers' Stories) - comp. Hamza El Din
4. Gillina Nura (Did Nura Remember) - comp. Hamza El Din, lyrics Mohi El Din Sherif
5. Hoi To Irkil Fa Giu (The Message Bearer) - comp. Hamza El Din, lyrics Mohi El Din Sherif
6. The Gondola - comp. Hamza El Din, lyrics Mohi El Din Sherif
7. Nuban Uto (Call for Unity) - comp. Hamza El Din, lyrics Mohi El Din Sherif
8. Kogosh (The Fortune Teller) - comp. Hamza El Din, lyrics Mohi El Din Sherif
9. Abdin (Greeting Card) - comp. Hamza El Din, lyrics Mohi El Din Sherif

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Bassem Rizk
Echoes from the Past

Album: Echoes from the Past
Artist: Bassem Rizk
Label: La CD-Theque
Genre: World
Date of recording: 2004
Date of release: 2007

Individual Track Details:
1. To my father الى أبي
2. Hanine حنين
3. Cartoons صور متحركة
4. Hijaz kar حجاز كار
5. Echoes from a past صدى من ماضٍ
6. Organza أورغانزا
7. Hamasat همسات
8. Story of the roses حكاية ورد
9. Virtuose فيرتويوز

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Hamza El Din
Muwashshah

Album : Muwashshah
Artist : Hamza El Din
Release date : 2005
Original Release Date : 1996
Label : Alula
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 77,8 MB
Total time : 00:48:27

Tracks :
1. Gala (Letter of Apology to the Earth) - Hamza el Din, Gharib, Sulaiman
2. Muwashshah (Veil) - Hamza el Din, Traditional
3. Assaramessuga (Childhood)
4. Malish Inwan (I Have No Address) - Hamza el Din, Ayaad, Bishir
5. Bint Baladna (Our Country's Daughter)
6. Ez'zaman (Time Is a Moment) - Hamza el Din, El Garhi, Mostafa
7. Agore (Forget)
8. Yatra (You Are Here)

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"Muwashshah…proves that good music is universal…the album is marked by El Din’s understated oud playing, warm vocals, and strong symphonic sense of melody." - MUSICHOUND WORLD
Arguably the most famous of all Arabic musicians, Hamza El Din hails from Nubia, now-underwater land of the Aswan High Dam in Northern Africa. His 1963 album on Vanguard, Music of Nubia, was the first recording of Afro-Arabic music to be distributed in the West. He is a titan of world music, an ambassador of Nubian culture, the founder of the modern Nubian music tradition, and the world’s greatest player of the oud (an Arabic lute-like instrument). Hamza El Din first started singing as a means to warn his people about the inevitable destruction of their land due to the High Dam. He spent years wandering and collecting traditional music. He later studied classical Arabic music, and then in Rome began working on a synthesis of Arabic, Nubian and Western music. When he was finished studying in Rome, the High Dam had been built and he was homeless. Since then, he has become a citizen of the world, traveling and playing on all continents, and eventually emigrating to the Bay Area in California. Muwashshah is a tribute to Ziryab, a legendary African slave who escaped from the court of Bagdad to become one of Arabic music’s most important composers, and is one of El Din’s most celebrated recordings, called "a triumph" by All Music Guide.

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Driss El Maloumi
The Dancing Soul

Album : Morocco: The Dancing Soul
Artist : Driss El Maloumi
Release date : 2005
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 85,3 MB
Total time : 00:54:39

Tracks :
1. Calme (Calmness)
2. Nostalgie (Nostalgia)
3. La Lune (The Moon)
4. Badinage
5. Notes/Naqarate
6. L' Âme Dansée (The Dancing Soul)
7. Enfance (Childhood)
8. Résonance (Resonance)
9. L' Élévation Même (The Elevation Itself)
10. La Marche (Promenade)

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Negâr Boubân - Continu

Album : Continu
Artist : Negâr Boubân
Release date : 2008
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Ethnic
Total size : 135 MB
Total time : 00:58:39

Tracks :
01 Bi Bargasht (Irréversible)
02 Parizad (Fée)
03 Pegah (Aurore)
04 Vajegoun (Renversé)
05 Gharghaab (Gouffre)
06 Farrar (Fuite)
07 Na Goftani (Indicible)
08 Bazgasht (Retour)

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