Middle Eastern

Classical Persian Guitarist

Professional Middle Eastern guitarist, singer and composer with compositions of Western and Persian fusion

Taqaleed – Middle Eastern & Arabic Musicians

Taqaleed is a North African & Middle Eastern live band made in London specialising in Rai and Arabic Music. The band is available to perform for private events, festivals and concerts.

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The London Oud Ensemble

London based Musicians specialising in Middle Eastern, Arabic and North African Music.

Melange – North African And World Music Band

With their unique music and electrifying performances, Melange is perfect for festivals, parties, weddings, functions, corporate and private events in and around London.

The Balkan Brass

The Balkan Brass plays music from the Balkan region including Bosnia, Croatia & Serbia and Anatolia in Turkey.

Solo Oud Musician

Unique Background Music. Ri is an instrumental, professional and academically-trained Oud player from the Middle East.

Despite major cultural differences, middle eastern music is mostly made of the three languages, Arabic, Turkish and Persian, as a unifying tradition brought together through Islam.

A typical performance of middle eastern music usually consists of alternating sections of improvised and composed material. Composed sections are mostly accompanied by percussion instruments that replicate standard patterns which articulate the rhythmic mode.

Melodic instruments such as the zorna (double-reed instrument), nay (flute), ud (short-necked lute) and santur (trapezoidal zither) play in unison with improvised sections of music. In this time and age, middle eastern music has changed immensely over the years by western influences.This now employs less improvisation and stricter unison between parts, in shorter pieces.

Whilst this is not commonly known, the Middle East has been a crucial source of musical instruments to the rest of the world, such as, bagpipes, guitar, lute, oboe, tambourine, viols as well as most zithers. Often times, middle eastern music can last for up until one to three hours in length of time, building up to much applauded climaxes and tarab.