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YEMENI OUD - clips'n'trix.
yo, all you peeps and oud freaks!
here's a thread to share, explore and appreciate yemeni oud music. let's find out who knows what about it and what sort of
licks'n'kicks'n'shakes'n'beats get you going. i want to talk about sana'a, learn about taizz, explore hadramaut and dance in aden. i want to talk
yemeni maqam and have rhythm laid bare.
and above all - i want some serious oud-picking-skillz!
let's get this party started with the man with a voice as big as his hair:
MR FAISAL ALAWI!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwmlfQM0VOU&list=FL4caV_bWK_55GD...
you liking it?
over to you!
where you gonna take us?
what are we gonna hear?
got a story to tell?
 LONG LIVE YEMEN!
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Jono Oud N.Z
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I love the Yemeni style.
I would also like to learn more about it too.
Beautiful!!
This CD is superb:
http://www.amazon.com/Traditional-Yemeni-Songs-Hamud-Junayd/dp/B000...
And I also love this one too:
http://www.amazon.com/Music-Islam-11-Various-Artists/dp/B0000007Z6/...
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looks interesting. i didn't know it existed, i might have to order it. what's it all about? mainly sanaa'i style?
it's very difficult to find yemeni stuff in the uk. i was only aware of two or three albums commercially available, one of them being mainly tribal
drumming and the others some sort of compilations. all nice enough but a little out of context.
i've been to yemen a few times and always brought back a suitcase full of cassettes. that's what got me started on the oud. it's fantastic stuff.
10000s of artists, all very different to one another, but every single one a master.
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yeah, that looks cool. again, i haven't heard of it but the musos on it are top notch. i really like this yaha arouma geezer. he's got a very
hypnotically soothing feel about him. and he's only young.
i bet this album's dead melancholic, proper sana'a style. like a dream in a caleidoscope. far out stuff. and non commercialised and therefor very
true to itself.
i love how varied yemeni music is. when you compare sana'a to taizz, you find two completely different approaches to what music can be all about.
sana'a and taizz are only half a days worth of coach travel apart.
in taizz they shake their bones to a very different vibe. there they get off on the likes like AYOOB TARISH, the man who can, dares, pursues and
delivers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m2wbMNdvrc&feature=results_main...
i just find it much rougher around the edges, more grit, more energy, compared to the sana'a style. which doesn't mean i don't love sana'ai music just
as much, but for very different reasons.
what do you think?
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Jono Oud N.Z
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Very nice!
Hamud sings a little like this.
The Taizz style is completely new to me.
The first album is just vocal and oud, and the second vocals, oud and percussion.
completely traditional.
There is a variety of maqamat used on both recordings.
Kurdi being quite prominent on the second one (Islam 11), very melancholic and beautiful.
The other one also features Sikah and Rast, and a long taqsim (about 11 mins).
They are both Sana'a style.
I have one I downloaded by Aref Juman, this is just solo oud.
It is no longer available, and it dosen't seem to be for sale either.
I will upload some tracks.
Here are a couple for now:
http://www.4shared.com/audio/6biKTIYF/03-Etab.html
http://www.4shared.com/audio/MahJpssy/04-Ghroub.html
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Mood: in the mooud again..
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oooooohhhhhhh! ok ok great stuff again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
do you want groove?listen to the groove  listen to this song, is
amazing!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTvb_MsSzZQ
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Jono Oud N.Z
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I love this one!
I downloaded it a while back.
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Mood: in the mooud again..
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it rocks!
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yes, taizz style is ace. taizz is a big city of few million people nestled away in the southern highlands 3k above the red sea. it's inhabited and
visited by yemenis and nothing but. it's a hughe city, stretching out into the green valleys. the yemeni highlands are an oasis of green and fertile
land the size of scotland in the middle of this massive desert of the arabian peninsula. it's ace up there. nobody knows anything about it anymore.
its music has been left alone.
musically it sort of connects the north (sana'a) with the south (aden) and hodeida (tihama) in the west, which is only a swim across the red sea from
eritrea. to the east it meets the desert sounds of hadramaut. and even though taizz embrased all these very different styles it preserved its very
unique mountain independence. the singers and pickers up there meassure themselves against the wind of the mountains and the ragged peaks and the lack
of air. it's pure soul.
i met this guy i posted above (ayoub tarish) in 2008 in his mansion overlooking taizz from the steeps of mount saber and he's the don. he's like the
bob dylan of yemen, or what bob dylan always wanted to be. he wrote the national anthem after the reunion. without him not even yemenis would no about
music from taizz. he's a dead nice man and kind and funny. we sang together for 26 hours straight. unfortunately he doesn't play oud anymore. he's
got arthritis.
in taizz i also met ahmed maheub. he's a bit more on the poppie side. he sure is admired by women and envied by men. there's not the best footage of
him available (you should hear his tapes, they make the mad go sane!), so this will have to do. it's more traditional than what he usually does, but
worth checking out. you can also see the copper plate percussion thingy in there, something unique to the yemeni highlands, a left over from the days
of music prohibition under imam yahya.
ahmed and i ended up recording an album together and became really good friends. we're still in touch, but it's very difficult atm with all that's
going on over there...
http://babalyemen.com/yemen/index.php?option=com_seyret&catid=3...
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Quote: Originally posted by michoud  | oooooohhhhhhh! ok ok great stuff again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
do you want groove?listen to the groove listen to this song, is
amazing!!
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTvb_MsSzZQ |
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yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!!!! you got it!!!
more! more! MORE!!!!
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| Quote: Originally posted by Jono Oud N.Z | Very nice!
Hamud sings a little like this.
The Taizz style is completely new to me.
The first album is just vocal and oud, and the second vocals, oud and percussion.
completely traditional.
There is a variety of maqamat used on both recordings.
Kurdi being quite prominent on the second one (Islam 11), very melancholic and beautiful.
The other one also features Sikah and Rast, and a long taqsim (about 11 mins).
They are both Sana'a style.
I have one I downloaded by Aref Juman, this is just solo oud.
It is no longer available, and it dosen't seem to be for sale either.
I will upload some tracks.
Here are a couple for now:
http://www.4shared.com/audio/6biKTIYF/03-Etab.html
http://www.4shared.com/audio/MahJpssy/04-Ghroub.html
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somehow can't download them at them moment, computer's a bit <b>shoot</b>, but will look into it soon.
with regards to maqams - kurdi does indeed seem to be quite popular. in all the regions. but then there are many regional differences. a few weeks ago
a yemeni friend of mine sent me a hand-written book of southern yemeni maqams and rhythms and licks and muqatemems and all nicely spelt out. i don't
read arabic yet, so i don't really know the names for a lot of them, but there are a few i haven't come across before.
for example, would you be able to help me out on this one? i'm very interested in its background and usage:
(from bass to top)
sol - la karbemol - si natural - do - re - mi karbemol - fa - sol.
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Jono Oud N.Z
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So:
G, Ad, B, C, D, Ed, F, G.
This is identical to Persian Homayun.
The existence of this maqam in Yemen harks back to the early days of this music.
In 'A History of Arabian Music to the 13th century', by Henry George Farmer, he explains that in the early days of Islam, many Persians were working
in Mecca.
During this period, Persian singing became 'all the rage', and
was then blended with Arabic music.
The Persians, likewise had to learn Arabic style as well as teaching their style.
You can definitly hear Persian influences in Yemeni singing.
Hijaz was played like this in the 17th century.
(So was Nakriz; C, Ed, F#, G etc..)
(From 'Music of the Ottoman Court', by Walter Feldman).
In the book he shows that the 17th century Ottoman tanbur was fretted exactly like the Persian setar.
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edit - just got what you said, yes, makes sense... i think. lol..
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I write the quarter tones as Ad and Ed.
Does the quality of the si change between natural and b?
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whew!
Almost thought I did an unrelated rant, LOL.
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Thank you for the information on the taizz style.
Very interesting.
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i guess i just about got away with a bit of brain failure....
very interesting though, this really explains a lot! it really traveled a long way, all the way to the south where the ottoman empire never found a
foot.
this is quite an interesting clip. you might have seen it before as it's quite well known, but here we go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdHbypelaJQ
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Wow!
This is very cool!!
The qanbus!
This is the first time I have seen one.
I wasn't suggesting that there was any Ottoman influence.
I meant that Hijaz used to be played like this.
There was certainly Persian influence in Arabia in the seventh and eighth centuries though.
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thank you all 4sharing
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a funky gem from aden:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIzANSzz7xE&list=FL4caV_bWK_55GD...
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...and another classic.
i really like the string arrangements in it. and the way the musos look and are seated. very cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGN4xmrwUKg&list=FL4caV_bWK_55GD...
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and back to ouds:
Jamilla Saad!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQwUGKVmHGs
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i'm gonna have to do it now:
a clip very close to my heart, as it was the first ever arabic song i've learned.
ladies and gentlemen, this one is for all you oud-freaks and yemen-fans, here is yemen's biggest export:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKtuPEeKo3E&list=FL4caV_bWK_55GD...
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Jono Oud N.Z
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I love this stuff!
Awesome!
Very good idea starting this topic.
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some fine picking here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX3Kc1MRFsA&feature=related
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