Check out the entire video and right at the end when the man is playing the Nahat, look behind him at all those Oud bowls... OMG.. I wish I could be
there!!!
That's a familiar melody he's playing. I've heard versions from Iraq and even Afghanistan. Can someone identify it?John Erlich - 12-30-2012 at 11:10 PM
Brilliant recording!SamirCanada - 1-1-2013 at 06:49 AM
Sabah Fakhri is known to sing it oftenJody Stecher - 1-1-2013 at 01:56 PM
Yes, "brilliant" in every sense of the word. I love this recording. The oud playing is so alive and responsive to the situation. And there is no
separation of "performer" and "audience". Jamil Bashir certainly seems to be (Serif Muhididin Hayder) Targan's student in terms of oud sound and
technique. Their sound is so close. But the musical content is so different. I am always puzzled by those who don't like to listen to Jamil Bashir.
They say it's because he doesn't have the typical low pitched Arabic oud sound. Suppose it was a buzuq, would it then be great playing? I'm also
puzzled by Jamil's Bashir's Euro-Arab composing. It seems the worst of east and west all at once. And yet when he played Baghdad idiom and other
Arabic music it was so excellent. I'm equally puzzled by the recordings of Targan. At times he plays exquisitely, with great musical ideas and an
expressive musicality and at other times he sounds as though he were being paid by the note. Ah well, that's the way things are.
