stringmanca
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Marcel Khalife
Marcel Khalife's new CD, Taqasim, will be featured on the Weekend Planet on March 11th.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendplanet/stories/2007/1857401.htm
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al-Halabi
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This is a very nice CD, with some beautifully expressive oud improvisations exploring a whole range of maqams. Unlike his instrumental composition
Jadal, in which Marcel Khalife sought to demonstrate that the oud could work in polyphonic settings typical of Western music, this one-hour
composition is grounded in the traditional taqsim tradition. An upright bass and percussion provide the accompaniment, at times with jazzy effects,
but the oud dominates.
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zalzal
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And the link to youtube short video clip which probably everybody has already seen it but still i posted here in case someone has not yet fallen on it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brEzFM8m__A
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Shadi
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haha really. Who hasn't seen that yet?
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JamesOud
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I am a Marcel Khalife fan since the Jadal masterpiece. But I must say this new recording was really un-impressive for and disappointing. I found the
music was quite boring actually. I hated the overdubs which made it feel fake.
Some of it was nice, partly the solo oud but the recording felt artificial for me.
Confused James
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