ALAMI - 4-11-2007 at 11:28 AM
"Beyond Traditions" - a CD by composer and oud player Ziad Ahmadie and Fun Jan Shai band.[img]null[/img]
The oud is the main instrument playing around and with many rythms from Brazil to Cuba to Flamenco and a superb oud version of Duke Ellington's
Caravan.
A nice combination of oud, piano, palmas, cajun and congas.
The CD is published by "Incognito", a small lebanese independent label trying to publish non commercial artists and film makers (on the DVD side of
the label)
Ziad is a great oud player, he's also a singer and a composer trying many different styles and a very nice person, he was featured on a post by Zalzal
a while ago:
http://www.mikeouds.com/messageboard/viewthread.php?tid=5707#pid343...
With his permission I am posting a track
Track 7 : Semai Nakess - Ziad Ahmadie on oud & Tarek Yamani on piano:
ALAMI - 4-11-2007 at 01:19 PM
An Extract of "Arabia", oud Flamenco:
zalzal - 4-13-2007 at 11:32 AM
Semai Nakass sounds like Samai Shad Araban.
MatthewW - 7-17-2007 at 03:53 AM
Alami- Semai Nakess is very lovely piece of music. Is it an original by Ziad? Would you know if there is any score available for this song? cheers!
ALAMI - 7-17-2007 at 10:46 PM
This an original composition by Ziad, "samai'i Nakess" means Sama'i incomplete and it is called this way because it is an 8/8 instead of the
traditional 10/8 for sama'is but it ended up really incomplete as the CD producer took out the 4th khana because it made the piece "too long and
complicated" (!producers....)
I will ask Ziad when I meet him if he has a full recording for the piece as well as if he's willing to give the notation.
MatthewW - 3-4-2008 at 04:47 AM
Hi Alami- I was wondering if you had a chance to ask Ziad about the sheet music for this lovely Semai Nakess?
thanks!
ALAMI - 3-7-2008 at 07:05 AM
Hi Matt,
Ziad just gave me the music sheet, am attaching it
MatthewW - 3-8-2008 at 01:23 AM
thanks ALAMI, and thanks to Ziad. 
ALAMI - 7-19-2008 at 03:29 AM
I am posting a full version of "Samaii Nakess", it is a recording from a live performance at the Babel Theater in Beirut.
it has on minute 3.00 the 4th khana (a tricky and complex one) that was missing from the original CD version but present in the abv music sheet.
This is a Shad Araban samaii and it has some similarities with the famous Jamil Bey Shad Araban samaii
francis - 9-1-2008 at 02:14 PM
I just listen to the "Samaii Nakess".
The two versions. They sound different. The duo oud/piano on the 'incomplete" first mp3 takes a very lovely place in the sound space, both
transparence from the oud and depth with the piano part. I like it very much and I'm happy to find the music sheet....