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Ouds in Dallas

omazuz - 9-8-2007 at 12:04 AM

Shabat Shalom
By the of next week (16-20/9) ill be in a convention in Dallas.
I was trying to find music stores with ethnic instruments over the net -with no great success - ouds especially and maybe oud cd's (its very hard to find in Israel) .
I would appreciat help.
Ofer

michoud - 9-8-2007 at 11:58 AM

Hi Omazuz!!
I think is easyer found a good oud in Israel.
I think there are some oud players and oud fans from Israel in this forum...
Put in contact with these forum members... Marina, Akram, Amarock,Benjamin and Oudplayer
Good luck!!!!

Datura83 - 3-5-2008 at 08:39 PM

Hello!
My name is Denize and I just bought a Baglama Saz.... is there anyone in Dallas who could help me tune and work this lovely piece of instrument... i live in Richardson area...

Thanks
Denize:)

John Erlich - 3-6-2008 at 12:12 PM

Shalom Ofer,

Regarding CDs:

The biggest Arab and Middle Eastern communities in the USA are in Detroit, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and these are where the better Arab (and Persian, Armenian, etc.) music stores tend to be.

You can always surf the internet looking for Arabic groceries (some Arab-American groceries have a fairly good CD collection)--there are some in the Dallas area. There is web page for an Arabic band (mostly Western instruments), "Layali," based in Dallas. You could always ask them about Arabic music shops in the Dallas area.

My best suggestion is to look for on-line distrubutors in North America, Europe, and Turkey, who have postal contact with Israel. Here are some:

Rashid Sales (Brooklyn, NY, USA): http://www.rashid.com/enter.asp (They have a large retail store in Brooklyn)

Maqam.com (USA): http://www.maqam.com/ (Fewer traditional CDs lately, though I prefer their service to Rashid's)

Tulumba.com (Brooklyn, NY, USA): http://www.tulumba.com/ (EXCELLENT collection of traditional Turkish music and great service!)

Buy Arabic.com (Brooklyn, NY, USA): http://www.buyarabic.com/ (The "Arabic branch" of Tulumba; great service, but fewer traditional CDs available than on Tulumba)

Armenian Music.com: https://www.armenianmusic.com/store.php?match_any=&start=0&c... (Never bought from them)

A couple US Persian music sales sites: http://www.iranianmovies.com/ http://www.musicboxla.com/
Also: http://www.iranmelody.com/Music/ (don’t know where they are based…)

Hollywood Music Center: https://www.hollywoodmusiccenter.com/ (They have some great CDs among a lot of junk)

Studio 52 (Thessaloniki, Greece): http://www.studio52.gr/ (Great CD shop in Greece's 2nd largest city; service not bad; sells some Arabic and Turkish music, as well as Greek, with oud; the most outi [oud] friendly category of Greek music is "Traditional - Asia Minor.)

Kalan (Istanbul, Turkey): http://www.kalan.com/english/scripts/ (I own many great Kalan CDs, but have never bought from their web page; last time I checked, the shipping costs were more than the [low] CD costs)

Fassiphone (Belgium): http://www.fassiphone.com/ (I bought a rare CD of Iraqi qanoun music from Fassiphone; I was interested because North African music is the hardest Arab music to find in the USA; site is in French; NOTE: THEIR CUSTOMER SERVICE IS THE WORST I'VE EVER EXPERIENCED FOR ANY WEB-BASED SALES OF ANY KIND!)

Institute Du Monde Arabe (Paris, France): http://www.imarabe.org/prat/librairie.html (I don't know how they sell their CDs; They have a PDF catalogue and the CDs are on pg. 56-69: http://www.imarabe.org/prat/cat_publications2005.html)

I assume that you have already gotten all you can get from the Jerusalem Book Shop (they had 3 stores locations in 2000, with the biggest in the Muslim Quarter, not far from Damascus Gate), Heze's shop in the shuk in Shechunat Hatikvah in T.A., and Israel Music (http://www.israel-music.com/f/?q=Oud&s=10).

Hatzlachah rabah,
John

Jassim - 3-6-2008 at 12:25 PM

dear sir
is there oud player in Israel?
is it arabic player or Israel players?

John Erlich - 3-6-2008 at 01:58 PM

Ahalan Jassim,

Here are some Arab (Palestinian) oud players in Israel:

Taiseer Elias - http://www.oud.eclipse.co.uk/elias.html
Kamil Shajrawi - http://www.kamilshajrawi.com/html/main.html
Joubran brothers - http://www.letriojoubran.com/
Sameer Makhoul - http://www.olamale.com/htmls/sameer.htm
Michael Maroon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJIaP8la4B8

Here are some Jewish oud players in Israel:

Yair Dalal - http://www.yairdalal.com/
Slimane ElMagribi (z”l) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXi9pSsmOiU
Samy ElMagribi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fphJ-rWTkL0
Armand Sabach - http://koloudtof.calabashmusic.com/

Some promising young oud players, both Arab and Jewish, are being trained at the Jerusalem Academy for Music & Dance (http://www.jamd.ac.il/English/) and The Center for Middle Eastern Classical Music (http://www.musicenter.org.il) in Jerusalem.

Best,
John

Jassim - 3-8-2008 at 11:18 AM

waaw very good
its e first time to me i know that jewish play oud

John Erlich - 3-9-2008 at 08:07 PM

Ahalan Jassim,

I forgot to mention some Iraqi-Jewish musicians:

Salim Al-Nur (born in Iraq in 1920, moved toIsrael in 1950): http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/hnum/3661200?rk=home&r... (I like his compositions better than his taqasim)

Daoud & Saleh Al-Kuwaity: http://www.israel-music.com/daoud_and_saleh_al-kuwaity/their_star_s...

All members of the ensemble that accompanied Mohammed El-Qabbanchi to the 1932 Arabic Music Congress in Cairo and all but one member of the Baghdad Broadcasting House Orchestra in the 1930s: http://www.dangoor.com/72page41.html

Best,
John