Contest: Taksim Sikah

Ok guys time is over.

No body can do a takssim sikah)

contest is cancelled.

Yeah, hold your horses! I though you'd start with YOU doing a Sikah taqsim, show us, I was waiting for your lead! And what kind of contest starts with nothing? Me, I've had guests, can't rush, why not 1) do your taqsim, 2) give everybody a little time?

And see, Sultan Katakofka's not shy, if Nasseer Shamma can do a pyramid, Katakofka can add a new Maqam. I think it has a lot of potential. I don't like all these Maqam names being based on the name of some remote Tir stop. In MY hemisphere, we'd have, for instance, maqam Los Mochis. If you've ever been to Los Mochis,



the big question there is: can you find shade for both the donkey AND the little yellow dog ... if they come for Noel.

So I propose a non-regional name for Katakofka's maqam: Sikah Sikah Wah Wah Wah.

Katakofka;
Really very very nice Sika!

Fernand:
I thaught the prize ( sorry I have only one risha ) was missing...

yaah hold mang!
I am going to make my version soon

not to win anything though... just to share music.


Mkrmni, are you in Ottawa now?

lets hang out

Quote: Originally posted by fernandraynaud

So I propose a non-regional name for Katakofka's maqam: Sikah Sikah Wah Wah Wah.

Fernand...ur mistaken...this is not a regional siga..Siga mzahzah is highly international. Mzahzah (in arabic) is a stage you reach after couple of beers. Note that this siga begins by being mzahzah and it ends by total KO..natural path and international

Quote: Originally posted by mrkmni

Katakofka; Really very very nice Sika!

glad you like it but you must be 18+ to listen to it

Kessak ya abou sous.

Quote: Originally posted by SamirCanada

Kessak ya abou sous.

So nobody likes "Sikah Sikah Wah Wah Wah" ? How about "sikah mzahzah wah wah wah"? I vaguely remember playing a taqsim in that maqam in the back seat of the car last night. My head still hurts.

As to maqam Los Mochis, some 20 years ago we were looking for fuel for our (borrowed) twin engine Cessna over northern Mexico, and Los Mochis wasn't answering on the radio. We landed on the dirt runway by the limp wind-sock, and realized the radio had been stolen, the landing lights were broken, and the locals were stumbling around drinking beer, looking for shade and tripping over the donkey -- in NO condition to service the plane. Hot air smothering everything, and the Sea of Cortez sparkling like hot asphalt; not a single wave. Siesta time. Scrawny iguanas would dart from behind a rock, running for cover to the next pile of boulders, and stop, as if regretting it. The birds, too lazy to sing, invisible. Maybe cooked like roast chickens. A lone tomato plant tied to a stick with an old sock. Some skinny palm trees, and a sprinkling of weeds. A lot of dust, waiting for some wind, and lazy slow-buzzing flies. Los Mochis means "the flies". We pumped our own gas and taped the money to the pump. It's fortunate they had some fuel, as 1) Los Mochis is the last gas until Mazatlan, and 2) Los Mochis had nothing else to offer. Nowadays if you Googlemap it, you can see that irrigation has at least done wonders for the local agriculture.

The next stop, Mazatlan, was a real city. Commercial jets would land there. We circled looking for the strip, and it was getting quite dark. No airport lights, and nobody answers on the radio. This was pre-GPS, so we were getting very nervous circling over the hills, wondering if we would run out of gas before we crashed into something in the dark, or after. Finally someone (who sounded like he had been sleeping) answered on the emergency channel. "Oh, Senor, sorry, we turn off the lights at night. No problem, we turn on for you now!" So, do they usually turn them on at daybreak? A slow pace, back then! Now it's all condos and hotels and taxis and taco stands. It was so beautiful before it became a monopoly game board.

You know, it feels like on the West Coast of the American continent, we've reached the edge of the earth. We traveled towards the West in covered wagons and chevrolets, with our children and our goats and donkeys, and we got here, and the Pacific is as far as you can go. I miss the Old World, so far away. The Spanish colonists must have felt it too. Being appointed Governor of Mexico must have felt like being voted king of Neptune! My friend Xolotl portrays Mexico from a heartfelt side in his synthy Mexecho album. That first track, Balboa, perfectly captures the bittersweet heart ache of standing at the end of the road, like conquistadors in armor looking out over the endless Ocean that says "no further!"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QZZUZE/ref=dm_sp_alb

I'm just recording an oud track on a piece we are working on together, he in France, me in California, we send the project files back and forth over FTP; he says that I'm putting oud on everything these days, like salt. Occupational hazard!

The Saz is starting to see some use too.

mzahzah means slightly moved...

When I said Sika, I meant any sika derivation like huzzam, iraq,...so mzahzah is accepted..

Quote: Originally posted by myeyes2020

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIyqTVi48Ak I look forward to other posts.

Quote: Originally posted by fernandraynaud

Whoa, MyEyes, that's one heck of an shamsa on that oud, is that a Fadi Matta?

Yes it's a Fadi Matta oud


Samir,

That was cool! But why haven't you had time to practiced, are you married or something?...lol

Very nice kata! I like mzazah^2

Anyways, yah being married would be an easy excuse... And actualy I like easy excuses so let's go with that one.

Obviusly my sweet half doesn't visit the forums.

CONTEST UPDATE:

So far, we have 4 Participants, and tey are all winners...

I was not really participating to the contest
Maybe I should then !

Btw Samir.. is that the Oud you made? I didn't follow your oud making story till the end maybe.. so excuse me not knowing what the result is. And if it is, it sounds really good for the first oud ! Congratulations

I didnt expect to be assessed and scored...
I should have been in 4th. Anyways it really is not what playing music is all about

Thanks Reda, Yah it is the oud I made.
I dont play it enough because its turns out its quite hard to hold (the bowl turned out HUGE!) and the string spacing at the bridge is waaaayyy to wide.

Mkrmni... time to play some music homey.

mrkmni aziizi

if you are putting scores to what people are posting some of them will not participate because they don't like to be judged. if the idea behind the thread is to encourage people to practice and share putting scores might be a bad idea.
beside...what's the best scorer will win?
I want a Matta Oud fully decorated

You may want to try a Ghadban like mine Souheil

Quote: Originally posted by Reda Aouad

You may want to try a Ghadban like mine Souheil

Reda:o I don't change religion and faith..what you are asking is a blasphamation...Ghadban is for al Koffaaaaaaaar
Beside, how do you play a Oud made by a Ghadban (furious, or mad) ? You'll end up doing music for wars...pay attention

We've never seen a contest without a prize

Quote: Originally posted by ALAMI

Contest or no contest, who cares? Just keep'em coming. It's been a while. I've been off boards and almost off oud and you guys made me want to play some Sikah, I have to try to learn the much advanced Kata's technique of Mzahzah, got a box of Almaza and some Arak Baladi, will try first non-working week-end. Here is some unfortunately-not-yet-mzahzah-Rahat Al Arwah, you know, the guy who lives in the lower floor of Huzam In Sikah House. Not really a taksim, kind of a mawal, played on grandPa Arja that John is analyzing in the other Thread.

hhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaa
Alami...the Siga should be mzahzah...not you

Another Segah contribution, in reaction to the wise suggestion to stop yakkin' and start pickin'. In the dive on the video, they were ALL mzahzah, including the camera operator, which is why it's called "Submarine Dance".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0iv4YsuJyM

Quote: Originally posted by fernandraynaud

Another Segah contribution, in reaction to the wise suggestion to stop yakkin' and start pickin'. In the dive on the video, they were ALL mzahzah, including the camera operator, which is why it's called "Submarine Dance". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0iv4YsuJyM

Quote: Originally posted by fernandraynaud

Another Segah contribution, in reaction to the wise suggestion to stop yakkin' and start pickin'. In the dive on the video, they were ALL mzahzah, including the camera operator, which is why it's called "Submarine Dance".