mrkmni
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Nasseer Shamma in Montreal
Hi Guys,
Does anyone know about the trio: NASEER SHAMMA, CARLOS PINANA, ASHRAF SHARIF KHAN
is it worth it?
I already attended some shows of Nasser...
Also there will be Rahim Alhaj. I dont know him.
all are here: http://www.festivalarabe.com/
Thanks!
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Aymara
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Hi!
He's an Iraqi oud master living in the US, as far as I remember.
Some days ago I found this studio session by chance.
I like it very much, hope you too.
PS: One more.
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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Quote: Originally posted by mrkmni  | Hi Guys,
Does anyone know about the trio: NASEER SHAMMA, CARLOS PINANA, ASHRAF SHARIF KHAN
is it worth it?
I already attended some shows of Nasser...
Also there will be Rahim Alhaj. I dont know him.
all are here: http://www.festivalarabe.com/
Thanks!
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GOOOOO!!!!! it is def. worth it. I just have to hear the name Naseer shamma and I know for sure it's worth it.
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Aymara
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Shure it is ... Naseer and Rahim belong to the world's best oud players, Carlos is a great Flamenco guitarist and Ashraf is a sitar master.
Youtube has several videos of every mentioned artist.
Whoever has a chance to go to Montreal shouldn't miss this concert.
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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I guess it's a marketing thing, I love oud; anything played on oud is better than not. But I view Nasseer Shamma with suspicion, like a country boy
looking at Isaac Stern and thinking "why can't he just play that fiddle like everybody else?" Nasseer should maybe just get himself a Telecaster and
some checkered pants. Now if Nasseer were straying towards Nashville riffs, I'd understand. There's a plenty of pickin' and grinnin' to be had there.
But to make things worse, personally I just don't like flamenco guitar, I don't care if it shares a lot with North Africa, they don't share enough for
my taste. It strikes me that 12 bar blues in A has infinitely more variety and a bigger inventory of chords than all of flamenco put together. The
classical guitar sounds to me like a mass-produced lacquered oud with all plain nylon strings and frets. And even thinking about sitar playing makes
me yawn. It's not true there's a raga for each time of day. All ragas are recumbant, most safely enjoyed in your pyajmas, like warm milk and a bad
novel. I was going to say more, and then decided it was better not to. Enough sacrilege.
Of course it's worth going to a concert like this, there could even be a big barroom brawl, like in the westerns. 
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Aymara
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Because then he wouldn't be famous
Hey, will I get famous too, when I do the same string tapping trick in my first videos? I bet not, but why? 
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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mrkmni
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Thank you guys for your advice.
I will think about it , I also dont like guitar... but the occasion itself is not repeated frequently.
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Just go to the concert and shout "Oud! Oud! Oud!"
I think you will love it. Take a look at Naseer Shamma and Rahim Alhaj on Youtube. TWO oud masters!
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| Quote: Originally posted by fernandraynaud | Just go to the concert and shout "Oud! Oud! Oud!"
I think you will love it. Take a look at Naseer Shamma and Rahim Alhaj on Youtube. TWO oud masters!
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I have already seen Nasser many times.
My school is the old school ! I dont like to make the technique better than the melody itself.
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Well, Rahim Alhaj works among the World Music types, but he's a true Iraqi oud player and a modest man.
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