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Rating: 5 out of 5.London based Musicians specialising in Middle Eastern, Arabic and North African Music. Hire for Middle Eastern, Arabic and North African Themed Events, Weddings or Eid Celebrations. The Oud performance can be done as a solo performance to backing tracks or with a small to a large ensemble with the Oud as the lead instrument.
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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.
Hi,
We have a gathering in May that we would like some live arabic music for. I am from Iraq myself would want some specific songs to be played that are from the region. Please let me know prices and availability.
We have wedding party on the 24yh of February in a hotel ,it will start at 6:00 to and end 10:00 . Please let me know what is your cost
We have wedding party on the 24yh of April in a hotel ,it will start at 6:00 to and end 10:00 . Please let me know what is your cost
We’re hosting a small gathering of close friends and family in a couple of weeks and were hoping to organise a small intimate concert for our guests. My family is Pakistani and my partners Scottish so the oud isn’t an instrument that any of us would be familiar with but I love your performances online and I think it would be a wonderful introduction to the oud for our guests.
We are located in east London (post code E7 9AN) in case may be available or interested. We don’t have a huge budget sadly, but we are able to offer £400 inclusive of travel. We were ideally hoping for something along two 45 min sets with a break in between but of course would also be happy to be guided by you as to what would work best.
We would of course be delighted if you would wish to join us for drinks beforehand or stay for dinner with the family and friends after the performance.
Kind regards
Saad