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Sameer Makhoul
Athar / Footprints (Magda Records)
$17.99
Solo ud compositions and performances.
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Press from the record label:
A remarkable sound, bold yet traditional, in a rich musical vernacular, flowing like the springs of the performer's native village of Peki`in (Galilee) or like the sigh of the wind in its citrus groves.
A rare example of collaboration between Israel's very finest Jewish and Arab musicians: Sameer Makhoul, Nasim Dakwar, Naor Carmi, Assaf Zamir, Butrus Khuri, Eissa Awad, Alfred Hajjar and Eyal Sela.
Sameer Makhoul - composer, musician and singer - was born in Peki`in in Galilee, a village renowned for its poets. He comes from a family of musicians and poets whose roots in the village reach back for generations, and was profoundly influenced by the cultural environment in which he grew up. He believes that the village springs, the olive trees of his forefathers and the green citrus groves were the sources which gave him life and the strength, even as a child, to study and create music on the oud and the violin.
Sammer Makhoul is a graduate of the Jerusalem Academy of Music, where he studied under the internationally famous oud player, Taiseer Elias . He has appeared with the Andalusian Muwashahat Orchestra (Tarshiha) and in many other ensembles. He has participated in study workshops in France, and, as an oud-player, has represented Palestine at the Dresden Lute Festival in Germany. A wealth of cultures and rhythms in music and poetry combine to create the unique voice of virtuoso oud performer and composer, A blend of traditional Arab music, ancient poetry and Turkish and Andalusian music.
He teaches oud, violin and Arab music theory and is also musical director of the Arab-Jewish orchestra in Jerusalem. A wealth of cultures and rhythms in music and poetry combine to create the unique voice of virtuoso oud performer and composer, Sameer Makhoul.
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