Amer - 10-12-2008 at 10:39 AM
Aref Jamn is one of Yemen's best oud players,
Truly deep arabic tunes from the hot deserts of southern Arabian peninsula!
The music is just too good to describe in words!!
This taqseem is called "Hawajes"
Enjoy
http://www.mediafire.com/?fnfmj2mymyz
Edit:
What is this guy's tuning?
What is the maqam(s) used in this taqseem? What makes it so "Yemeni" ?? I'm asking because this is the style I would like to master 
mjamed - 10-12-2008 at 09:17 PM
Great Tagseem
I think his tunning is G A D G C
It's really hard to tell what makes it yamani.
but if you wanna master this style list to him a lot and others similar to him: Like Abood Khawajah, and Ahmad Fathi
Also it would help if you listen to some yamni songs on oud.
katakofka - 10-12-2008 at 11:23 PM
Hijaz on G he's playing on G-A-D-G-c-f tuning. He insists on lot of vibrato when touching or playing on the high pitch mi-half bemol and the high
pitch sol which makes you feel that this is yamani. Abbadi el jawhar does that too, lot of vibrato but without using a high pitch f
David Parfitt - 10-15-2008 at 01:54 AM
Amer, thanks for posting this wonderful taqsim from a player I'd never come across before. Do you have any similar tracks that you could post? Are
there any recordings available of his music?
All the best
David
Amer - 10-15-2008 at 09:29 AM
mjamed, Katakofka, thank you so much for the tuning information and valuable advice.. I still have to work on vibrato though..
David, I'm glad you liked the taqseem! I know Aref Jamn as a "Jalsa" artist.. I have had the chance to attend a private Jalsa in Kuwait where he
played some Adeni songs.. I am absolutely sure there are professional recordings of his works on the oud, as I am sure they are very limited since
Aref has a smaller fan base..mostly the people who like his Jalsa's.. I just can't seem to find any on the internet.. A friend of mine picked up a CD
from the Virgin store in Beruit, I promise to call him and get the name of that CD and production information from him
There are videos of Aref popping up every now and then on youtube, here is him and Haytuch in a duo taqseem..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxzwaaykQk8
For those who love this color of oud music "Adani" = "from Aden", here's on of my favorite taqseems by Aref (notice the bulky qafla 1:10-1:17) 
This taqseem is called "Monajat"..
http://www.mediafire.com/file/325njkxmtmz/9- Munajat.zip
David Parfitt - 10-15-2008 at 11:30 PM
Amer, could you repost the link as this one doesn't seem to work?
Thanks
David
Amer - 10-16-2008 at 09:11 AM
Here's an alternative link David,
http://www.mediafire.com/?325njkxmtmz
David Parfitt - 10-16-2008 at 11:45 AM
That's excellent, thanks Amer!
littleseb - 10-17-2008 at 02:01 AM
This is excellent, very beautiful indeed!!!
I have been to Yemen a few times (with my cello rather than the oud), and that's where I fell in love with the oud and Southern Arab music. Whenever
I'm in Yemen I buy suitcases full of Yemeni cassettes, and I learned playing oud just by listening to my cassettes (I have about 250 of them) over and
over again. My favourites are Faisal and Ayoub Tarish (who I was honoured to meet after he heard us on the radio).
I know all my cassettes inside out by now and can play along (badly) to most of them, without even knowing who most of the artists are or what they
are singing about (I don't speak Arabic). But I find Yemeni music the most unique and beautiful sounding oud music I have come across (I really don't
know to much about it), and I can hear everything in there I love so much: Blues, Soul, Skiffle, Folk. If only I could convince my friends
hahahaha!
Please have a look at
http://www.myspace.com/theyeahyeahyemen
to hear some recordings we did in Sana'a, Aden, Hodeida and Taizz. It's ment to be a blend of Yemeni traditional and European classical music.
Seb
littleseb - 10-17-2008 at 02:10 AM
PS
there is a little clip of us on youtube as well:
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=7R6Iuawvkw8
It was recorded in Aden, at Yemen's first ever recording studio (not a studio anymore).
Sorry for the roughness and the many mistakes, but it gives you an idea....
Seb