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South African guitar virtuoso Derek Gripper plays music originally meant for the 21 stringed lute-harp, the kora, on his 6-string Segovia-styled guitar and does it so well that the world's leading guitarists and kora players keep wondering how one even does that. His original music is informed by kora masters Toumani Diabaté, Salif Keita, Estonian minimalist composer Arvo Part, Brazilian guitarist Egberto Gismonti and German Baroque innovator, J.S. Bach. Watch out, because he's about to collaborate with the Iraqi-American oud player and composer Rahim Alhaj. (Ed. note: just wait until the 11 or 13-strings of the oud and those maqams make it to the 6-string guitar in Gripper's hands!) For now, Gripper plays another unbelievable arrangement of a Malian kora song, as well as an original song informed by the cascading style of kora music, plus some of the second cello suite by J.S. Bach, in-studio. - Caryn HavlikSupplemental Reading: The Beauty of Everyday Things, In Search of Lost TimeSet list: 1. Alla L'a Ke 2. Moss on the Mountain 3. J.S. Bach: Prelude BWV 1008 (Second Cello Suite) BALLAKÉ SISSOKO AND DEREK GRIPPER by Ballaké Sissoko and Derek Gripper Everyday Things: Bach's Second Cello Suite BWV 1008 by Derek Gripper
Rahim performed 3 pieces from his work and spoke about his work as a composer and musician.Rahim AlHaj has performed all over the world, on tour with Munir Bashir, his teacher, as well as solo and with his string quartet project, including numerous concerts in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Egypt, and France and hundreds of concerts in the United States. He has released several recordings such as The Second Baghdad, Iraqi Music in a Time of War, and Friendship His When the Soul is Settled: Music of Iraq (which was nominated for a Grammy). AlHaj's music delicately combines traditional Iraqi maqams with contemporary styling and influence. His compositions are about the experience of exile from his homeland and of new beginnings in his adopted country. He is one of the true oud masters from Iraq. AlHaj says that "my music invites the listener to discover the true spirit of the musician." His compositions are about loss, hope, freedom, and longing. His songs establish new concepts without altering the foundation of the traditional Iraqi School of oud based in Baghdad. AlHaj wrote and performed the music for the award-winning short documentary, The Rest of My Life: Stories of Trauma Survivors.Created & Hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra Edited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/About Quartertones:QuarterTones is a music show. It is an opportunity to listen to music, across genres, from musicians of and from the Arab world. This series is similar to NPR's All Songs Considered that is focused on the Arab world. afikra will be inviting musicians of all genres, as well as music historians, to help better understand the music that they perform or study. In this series, the guests will be invited to talk about their work and play their music, whether live or recorded, in three segments. The series will host current musicians who play contemporary and modern, including alternative scene or hip-hop, electronic, classical music, among other genres. The musicians will also be from different geographies.Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp FollowYoutube - Instagram (@afikra_) - Facebook - Twitter Support www.afikra.com/supportAbout afikra:afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on afikra.com
This week: Purnima Chaudhuri; Ginesa Ortega; Carmen Linares; Gwakasonné; Glenn Spearman; Rumbavana; Rahim Alhaj; Paxton/Spangler Septet; Mal Waldron; David Murray Cuban Ensemble; Ritmo Oriental; José Mangual Jr.; Gougoumangou; son 14; much more... Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program on WRFI, or stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast: via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/ via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. PLAYLISTS at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/14410290/Conference-of-the-Birds and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/ We will continue to update playlists at confbirds.blogspot.com 24-48 hours of the program's posting online. Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
1. (Sig) English Country Blues Band : The Italian Job from the CD Unruly (Weekend Beatnik) 2. Los De Abajo : Fiesta from the CD Actitud Calle (Wrasse) 3. AfroCubism : Jarabi from the CD Afro Cubism (World Circuit) 4. Devon Sproule : Come Comet Or Dove from the CD Live In London (Tin Angel) 5. The Shee : Sugar And Pie from the CD Decadence (Shee) 6. Husnü Senlendirici & Trio Chios : Seftalisi Ala Benziyor from the CD Ege'nin Iki Yani 7. Syriana : The Great Game from the CD The Road To Damascus (Real World) 8. Andy Irvine : The Demon Lover from the CD Abocurragh (Andy Irvine) 9. Ralph McTell : A Kiss In The Rain from the CD Somewhere Down The Road (Leola) 10. Matthaios Tsahouridis : Ela Poulim from the CD Looking For A New England 2 (fRoots) 11. The Krar Collective : Wollo from the CD Looking For A New England 2 (fRoots) 12. Lemez Duo feat. Ben Mandelson : The Island from the CD Echoes From The Mountain (Rif Mountain) 13. Robert Plant : Cindy, I'll Marry You Someday from the CD Band Of Joy (Decca) 14. Nadezhda Zlateva : Slushai Malka Mome from the CD Lost Treasures Of Bulgarian Music (JSP) 15. Orchestra Makassy : Mambo Bado from the CD Africa: 50 Years Of Music (Discograph) 16. Cheikha Rimitti : Nouar from the CD On Air (Tradition & Moderne) 17. (Sig) English Country Blues Band : The Italian Job from the CD Unruly (Weekend Beatnik) 18. Albert Kuvezin & Yhat Kha : Are You Scared Of Death from the CD Poets & Lighthouses (Yat-Kha) 19. Carolina Chocolate Drops & Luminescent Orchestrii : Escoutas (Diga Diga Diga) from the CD EP (Nonesuch) 20. Damily : Nahoda from the CD Ela Lia (Helico) 21. Yemen Blues : Jat Mahibathi from the CD Yemen Blues (Globalev) 22. Manos Achalinotopoulos feat. Susheela Raman : Sab Kuchi Siikha Hamne Anari from the CD Zopirin (Universal Greece) 23. Los Illusionistas : Colegiala from the CD The Roots Of Chicha 2 (Crammed Discs) 24. Katie Rose : Grey Lady Morning from the CD Echoes From The Mountain (Rif Mountain) 25. Laura Marling : Blues Run The Game from the vinyl single (Third Man) 26. June Tabor : Shipbuilding from the CD Ashore (Topic) 27. Svetlana Spajic Group : Dodi Moje Sa Otrica Janje from the demo CD Svetlana Spajic Group (unreleased) 28. Be-Being : Chunsoobara from the demo CD Li And Sa (unreleased) 29. Jienat : Mira from the CD Mira (Jienat) 30. Ralph Jordan : Vipschottis from the CD Eloise (Attic) 31. Angles : Spider from the CD Angles (Angles) 32. Tymon Dogg : Battle Of Wills from the CD The Irrepressible Tymon Dogg (Rev-Ola) 33. Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance : How Come from the CD Just For A Moment (UMC) 34. Rahim Alhaj w. Bill Frisell : Morning In Hyattsville from the CD Little Earth (UR Music) Podwireless can also be heard streamed live on Mixcloud. You can find more details including past playlists and links to labels at www.podwireless.com Follow the links for previous podcasts.
The Children's Hour explores what it's like to be a refugee with two-time Grammy-winning Oud virtuoso, Rahim AlHaj. What makes a person flee their home to become a stranger in a strange land? What gets left behind, and what do they carry with them? Rahim shares his personal story, and plays some music on the world's oldest string instrument. durationtitleartistalbumlabel 03:14Last Night I Had the Strangest DreamJohnny CashAmerican VI: Ain't No Grave2010 American Recordings, LLC & The Island Def Jam Music Group 04:45Tamatant Tilay / ExodusHerbie Hancock, Tinariwen, K'naan & Los LobosThe Imagine Project2009 Hancock Music 03:35Iraqi LullabyRahim AlhajJourney2014 Ur Music 03:46Refugee RollingSierra Leone's Refugee All StarsLiving Like a Refugee2006 Anti- 07:39Going HomeRahim Alhaj & Little Earth OrchestraLittle Earth2010 UR Music 02:00QaasimRahim Alhaj & Stephen KentLittle Earth2010 UR Music 03:08I Am Malala (feat. Debbie Lan)Alastair MoockAll Kinds of You and Me2015 Alastair Moock 04:12From a DistanceNanci GriffithFrom a Distance - The Very Best of Nanci GriffithThis Compilation 2002 MCA Nashville, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. 03:10One WorldAnna MooMooey Christmas!1996 Good Moo's Productions
The vocation of instrumentalist, composer and NEA National Heritage Fellow Rahim AlHaj has brought him joy and exile, praise and torture -- always accompanied by a soundtrack provided by the 5,000-year-old Arabic oud .
On this Special Event Broadcast of WoodSongs, we’re honoring one of the most important legacy’s in all of recorded music… Smithsonian Folkways in celebration of their 70th anniversary. As Michael Johnathon notes, “Smithsonian Folkways is the musical treasure box of America's roots music. It is Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly and Big Bill Broonzy. It's what WoodSongs aspires to be. Our show was even based on Pete's old TV series Rainbow Quest. It's like WoodSongs is coming full circle as we present the great work of Smithsonian Folkways to a worldwide audience.” Appearing on the broadcast will be three incredible Folkways artists that continue the tradition that Moses Asch, who founded Folkways Records in 1948 to document the "people's music”, carry forward. Artists appearing on the broadcast include: Dom Flemons co-founding member of the GRAMMY-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, Grenadian-Canadian songwriter and tradition bearer Kaia Kater and Iraqi-American oud player Rahim AlHaj. Folkways’ Huib Schippers, (Curator and Director) and Jeff Place (Curator and Senior Archivist) will join Michael to share the label’s mission, story and cultural heritage with WoodSongs’ global audience. WoodSongs Kid: Mya Hunt is a thirteen-year-old vocalist from the Appalachian community in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky.
Rahim AlHaj, one of the world's best Oud players, visited Hancher and Iowa City to perform Letters from Iraq. Micah and Chuy, along with members of the community, sat down with Rahim in an Embracing Complexity lunch series. Listen as Rahim shares a wide range of stories, from bitter sweet to humorous, from meeting Stephen King and Barack Obama to having to flee Iraq and Syria seeking political asylum.
On this Special Event Broadcast of WoodSongs, we're honoring one of the most important legacy's in all of recorded music… Smithsonian Folkways in celebration of their 70th anniversary. As Michael Johnathon notes, “Smithsonian Folkways is the musical treasure box of America's roots music. It is Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly and Big Bill Broonzy. It's what WoodSongs aspires to be. Our show was even based on Pete's old TV series Rainbow Quest. It's like WoodSongs is coming full circle as we present the great work of Smithsonian Folkways to a worldwide audience.” Appearing on the broadcast will be three incredible Folkways artists that continue the tradition that Moses Asch, who founded Folkways Records in 1948 to document the "people's music”, carry forward. Artists appearing on the broadcast include: Dom Flemons co-founding member of the GRAMMY-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, Grenadian-Canadian songwriter and tradition bearer Kaia Kater and Iraqi-American oud player Rahim AlHaj. Folkways' Huib Schippers, (Curator and Director) and Jeff Place (Curator and Senior Archivist) will join Michael to share the label's mission, story and cultural heritage with WoodSongs' global audience. WoodSongs Kid: Mya Hunt is a thirteen-year-old vocalist from the Appalachian community in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky.
Rahim Alhaj's new album 'Letters from Iraq: Oud and String Quintet" draws from the stories and experiences recounted to him by Iraqui people following the U.S. invasion. He talked to Trevor Reekie backstage at Womad.
Cuando Esteban Girón, guitarrista de la banda de rock instrumental Toundra, se encontró con Niño de Elche, experimentador y exflamenco (como a él le gusta denominarse) en una mesa redonda en el festival Monkey Week, lo tuvo claro. "Después de cinco minutos parecía que le conocía desde hacía un montón de tiempo", explica. "Le entré… y no sé por qué aceptó", dice riendo. Poco más de un año después, ya tienen preparado Para quienes aún viven, el primer disco de Exquirla, una banda (nada de unión circunstancial o anecdótica) en la que todo encaja: la hondura y el mensaje del autor de Voces del extremo con la densidad eléctrica de un grupo que transita entre el post-rock y el metal. Con Niño de Elche, Esteban y Macón, también guitarrista en Toundra, hablamos de todo esto y conseguimos que en ningún momento de la charla apareciese la sombra del Omega de Enrique Morente y Lagartija Nick. Porque Exquirla es otra cosa. Letters from Iraq , el nuevo álbum del maestro oud iraquí Rahim Alhaj, es su declaración más política hasta el momento, pero también se siente como la más personal. Partiendo de sus recuerdos de la vida en Irak bajo el gobierno de Saddam, y de las historias y experiencias que le contaron personas en su país natal después de la invasión estadounidense, Alhaj ha creado una serie de composiciones basadas en la fusión de la música clásica árabe y occidental. mezclando su oud jugando con un cuarteto de cuerdas, principalmente de la Filarmónica de Nuevo México. Un menú completo para pasar el mejor de los momentos.
Wisam Al-Basaam Extraordinary tales of ordinary heroism. While at the CICM ASM in Sydney I was introduced to a gentleman called Wisam Al-Basaam and he had a story to tell. When I say gentleman I really mean gentleman. Wisam is a consultant intensivist at the Austin Hospital. That is a pretty good job. It’s a very good hospital and most of us would be very happy to get a gig there. For Wisam the road to the Austin was serpentine, three countries, three systems, war, death, terror, trauma, uncertainty, adversity, hard work and ultimately a new start. A new start here in Australia. Wisam is very highly respected by his peers in a super high performing clinician in an elite ICU. (I know this because those peers told me as much.) Australia is lucky to have him. He feels lucky to be here but the people that access his public hospital ICU are also lucky. Every moment that I experience the best of the free services we have here in Australia I feel lucky. Free emergency and intensive care services are common and usually excellent here in Australia. It is not the same for every specialty and I am proud to work in the part of a system that does not require people to pay up front just because they are sick and need healthcare. I get paid. Wisam and all the other doctors and nurses that worked like him in Iraq often didn’t get paid. He shares just a few stories from his early post-graduate years when his country didn’t even have a government. No one got paid. And yet they worked. They worked in a dangerous environment with little or no support and little or no equipment. Wisam didn’t think of his story as exceptional. Unfortunately his story is not exceptional. But that doesn’t stop him being a hero. A role model. He is the sort of Australian that makes me feel like I want to be part of this country. Thank you Wisam. Thanks for sharing your talents, your story and your hard earned wisdom. Thank you also to Rahim Alhaj and Amjad Ali Khan, playing the aptly named Common Destination from their album Ancient Sounds. You can find that on iTunes. I found it on Soundcloud.
El episodio de esta semana nace de un mail enviado por un oyente del programa, Francisco San José Barrero, quien me sugería un tema para el programa y añadía una selección musical muy interesante. De hecho, la selección del programa de esta semana está hecha casi exclusivamente con sus aportaciones. Escucharemos piezas de Sam Maher, Mumi, Aikyo, Rahim AlHaj, Faran Ensamble, Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté, Anoushka Shankar, Anna RF y Mark Eliyahu. Más contenidos sobre Perpetuum Mobile: https://goo.gl/yp5Pju Síguenos en Facebook: https://goo.gl/yVkhnw Síguenos en Spotify: https://goo.gl/u3UFrj Para ponerte en contacto conmigo: jaume@quedamosenhuesca.com
The compositions of the Iraqi oud composer and performer Rahim AlHaj do not have lyrics, but the tension, force, and vitality of his songs speak volumes about the power of music in the face of terrible strife. Backed by a string quartet and bassist on Wo' Pop, AlHaj speaks boldly about valuing different cultures and keeping an empathetic, open mind towards them in the face of challenges, both in conversation with Darek Mazzone and through songs from his latest collection, Letters From Iraq.Recorded 3/17/2017 - 3 songs: Letter 5. Going Home, Letter 6. Unspoken Word, Letter 4. The Last Time We Will Fly BirdsSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Programme de Rubén Marino TOLOSA pour webSYNradio : LUX RESONARE. Avec les sons de : Chris Hinze, Invisible, Rahim Alhaj, Buddhist Monks of Drepung, Pablo Marquez, Eric Satie, Anna Raimondo, Carlos Negro Aguirre, Janina Angel Bath, David Lebon, Renata Roman, Soda Stereo, Michael Hoenig, Hermeto Pascoal, David Rothenberg, Antonio Zepeda, Fer Isella , Carlé Cost, Zahra Mani, Irina Mikhailova, Sally McIntyre, Gustavo Cerati, Daniel Melero, Peter Michael Hamel, Valentina Villarroel Ambiado
Show #97 celebrates the world music nominees and winners from the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards. featured artists include Bela Fleck, Mamadou Diabate, Femi Kuti, Oumou Sangare, Omar Sosa, and others. this episode is 100% WORKSAFE.
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