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Trumix.com listings available of Personal Performances Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Zikrayat at Alwan Nov. 17th Before you listen, please take a minute and vote for us (Zikrayat) for the 2008 Independent Music Awards--we need your votes to win!vote here: www.musiciansatlas.comsee the post below for more details.This is our most recent performance from Alwan www.alwanforthearts.org last Saturday night.  We had a great crowd and I think it was our best show yet!  The lineup was:myself, on violin, vocals, rababaBridget Robbins, NayTareq Abboushi, Buzuq, vocalsDimitri Mikelis, OudJohnny Farraj, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amir ElSaffar discusses "Two Rivers" Amir ElSaffar, Iraqi-American Jazz Trumpet player, Singer and Santur player, discusses his newly released CD Two Rivers. He talks about the different ways he has combined Iraqi Music (of the Baghdad Maqam tradition) with Jazz in these pieces, and talks a little about his history with both kinds of music. The CD is available now on Pi Recordings and at amazon.com for more information on Amir and the album, please visit the Two Rivers myspace page and Amir's Website: www.amirelsaffa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anne Elise Thomas on Qanun Anne Elise and I chat about The global youth village http://globalyouthvillage.org/, where we were teaching in July; and the Jefferson Center http://jeffcenter.org/ in Roanoke, VA, where she is the educational programs coordinator Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Youth Village 2007 The young students at the Global Youth Village play 3 pieces (doulab bayati, doulab sikah, doulab hijaz) they learned by ear in their first week, and talk about how learning arabic music is different than the kinds of music they do. For more information on Global Youth Village, please visit: www.globalyouthvillage.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Steeger, musician extraordinaire This is the last podcast from last year's lark camp... as I depart for this year's camp...  The incomparable Brian Steeger, one of the true characters from lark camp, plays some music, makes us laugh, and gives his philosophical reflections on music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark and Ling Shien Bell Recorded after Lark Camp last year.  Mark and Ling Shien are a husband and wife musician team based in Marin County, CA, in the Bay area.  They've just released their latest CD "Spice Box" and updated their website:www.helmmusic.comIn this podcast we highlight their musical diversity and chat about their history together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bridget Robbins on Nay and Flute Bridget Robbins plays nay and flute; we play a turkish piece, a baroque flute duet, she plays an armenian piece, and we play some Arabic tunes... and some nice conversation... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zikrayat Live at Lotus outtakes part A In honor of the release of our new CD, "Zikrayat: Live at Lotus,"I have made a podcast featuring many of the pieces from the original performances that I had decided not to include on the CD.  My wife robin and I talk about the ensemble, the CD, and some of what we've done over the last year.You can purchase the CD online at CDBaby and Amazon.  To those who do: thanks for supporting our dream!If you haven't seen our website yet, please visit www.zikrayatmusic.comThe podc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zikrayat Live at Lotus outtakes part B In the second half of the podcast, robin and I talk a little about our theatrical ambitions, our way of working together, and I talk about how I mastered the CD, with six 1-minute excerpts of "Yamma-l-amar" illustrating the steps I took. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Microtones in Arabic Music This is a lecture/demo on microtones.I demonstrate the wide variety of microtones in use in Arabic music (by my count, at least 12 within a half step);I explain:1. the problems with describing the microtones used in arabic maqams as "quarter-tones"--since they are not exactly a quarter of anything.2. the problems with the Comma system (the system of 54 divisions of the octave)3. the problem with seeking too systematic an explanation of the microtones.And I offer a different approa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zikrayat Rehearses for APAP This is half of a rehearsal for our showcase next week at the national convention of APAP (the Association of Performing Artist Presenters) here in New York City.   It is a free concert, open to the public.  Jan 21, at 6:15 pm.  The show is 20 minutes long.  For more details, please see our website:www.zikrayatmusic.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tareq Abboushi on Buzuq Tareq, a longtime musical friend of mine, plays buzuq (a long-necked, fretted lute he refers to as "the banjo of the middle east"), and talks about his musical interests, from classical (he started playing piano at around age 5; his mother is a piano teacher at the Edward Said national music conservatory in Ramallah, Palestine) to jazz (he attended William Patterson University in New Jersey, getting a degree in Jazz Piano) to Arabic, to his own project, "Shusmo"--meaning ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faisal Zidan on Riqq Recorded in August at Lark Camp.Faisal Zidan, a Syrian percussionist from the SF Bay area, plays riqq, sings muwashshahat with me, plays some complicated rhythms (including a 32-beat rhythm for the muwashshah "Ya Murru <Ujban"), & jams with me.  He talks a little about his love for these old songs and complex rhythms, and how he started learning muwashshahat.  He also mentions his involvement with Kan Zaman.  He has no website, but he plugs his friend's percu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ernest Lee Fischbach Ernie, one of the real characters of Lark Camp, plays buzuki, sings the blues, and plays flamenco guitar.  He also talks about the bands he almost was in ("The Monkees"), how Lark Camp was started, gives some advice to musicians, and tells stories about musicians and the music scene in California. for more on Ernie, see his PAGEas well as that of the Institute for Traditional Studies Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introductory Maqam Lesson This is an introduction to my other podcast feed, maqamlessons.I took samples recorded from a class at Lark Camp this last August, and explain how the maqam lessons are structured & how best to use them.  I also talk a little about my teaching philosophy.to subscribe to maqamlessons, please use RSS feed: http://maqamlessons.com/rssthe blog page is www.maqamlessons.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wael Kakish of Kan Zaman Wael Kakish, the current director and one of the founders of Kan Zaman, a community-based Arabic music ensemble in Los Angeles, plays oud, sings a few songs, and talks about Kan Zaman.  We are also accompanied by percussionist Faisal Zidan, who will appear in a later podcast.  This podcast was recorded in August at Lark Camp.For more information about Kan Zaman, please visit their website:www.kanzaman.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Part 2 -Smyrna Time Machine and Sinan Erdemsel Part 2 --just a continuation of episode 11. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Smyrna Time Machine & Sinan Erdemsel part 1 We compare some maqams shared by the Greeks, Turks, & Arabs: specifically, Sikah & Huzam, Rast, and Saba.  This podcast was recorded in camp 3 of Lark camp, in the Mendocino Woodlands in northern California.  Part 1 of a two-part episode.  Greek Rebetika and Smyrnaica music by the Smyrna Time Machine; visit them on the web at: www.rebetes.comVisit Turkish oud player Sinan Erdemsel on the web at: www.oudist.comto find out about Lark Camp, visit: www.larkcamp.comto find ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Johnny Farraj compares similar rhythms Johnny plays riqq & demonstrates similar rhythms in 4/4, & shows how they can be interchanged.  we use a few examples from pieces, and a little improvisation on these rhythms Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sami Plays Doulab-s I play a number of different short instrumental pieces of the genre Doulab (pl. dawalib), which is used to introduce a mode, a song, or an improvisation. I play some traditional syrian & egyptian dawalib, two from the Iraqi Maqam repertory, and four of my own composition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anne Elise plays Qanun Anne Elise Thomas plays Qanun, an Arabic trapezoidal zither. We play doulab kurd and she improvises a bit. We chat about music pedagogy in Egypt & her recently completed thesis (congratulations, Dr. Thomas!!!). we end with the Samai Kurd by Abdu Dagher (a famous Egyptian violinist). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nicole LeCorgne on Percussion Nicole plays frame drum with me, talks about how she got into percussion in Minneapolis, her recent visit to New Orleans, her photographs from Morocco, and her upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia. She also talks about working with Michel Merhej on his percussion book. for more information about Nicole, and to see her photographs from Morocco, please visit www.nicolelecorgne.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dameshe discusses dance My wife Robin ("Dameshe") plays zills with me on Tamr hinna, talks about Egyptian film star and dancer Naima Akif, how she and I got interested in Egyptian Film music, and what we've been doing with Zikrayat, our new ensemble. To hear our new demos, please visit www.zikrayatmusic.com To read robin's article about dance, please visit www.thehipcircle.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Brunka Plays oud Brian starts with an improvisation, we play one of his pieces (Aqsaq Nakriz), and we chat about the Oud, the Guitar, and his jazz playing in New Orleans and New York. We end with part of Mohamed Abdel Wahhab's "Beladil Mahbuub." For more information about Brian and his various projects, please visit his website www.brianprunka.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Johnny Farraj on Riqq Johnny talks about the riqq, (a tambourine-like hand drum) and its role in Arabic Music, and demonstrates several styles of playing and several different rhythms; Nikolai Ruskin and I play along Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amir ElSaffar Sings Iraqi Maqam & plays Santour Amir ElSaffar plays santour, an ancient Iraqi instrument (similar to a hammered dulcimer), and sings selections from Maqam Hwayzawi. We talk a little about how the Iraqi Maqam is different from other Arab music repertories, and Amir illustrates with examples from Hwayzawi. We chat about how he got into Iraqi music, his upcoming jazz commission in Philadelphia, and how he got to be so good at English. For more information on his performance in Philadelphia on March 25th, please visit w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nikolai Ruskin plays Nay Multi-instrumentalist Nikolai Ruskin plays the low C Nay (Arabic end-blown cane flute), with me accompanying on Rababa (Egyptian folk bowed string instrument). Nikolai discusses his feelings about the Nay, how he got into Arabic music, and how he thinks non-Arabs can learn Arabic music. for more information on the Cornell Middle Eastern Music Ensemble in Ithaca, NY, please visit: www.arts.cornell.edu/cmeme/ for more information about Nikolai, please visit: www.nikolairuskin.com/ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arabic violin history I start with a long improvisation in Maqam Rast, and have a short discussion of the history of the violin in Arabic Music Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introductory Podcast I play the music I played for Robin to come down the aisle in our wedding last year, explain my intent with the podcast, and end with a new composition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website