There are plenty of masters of oud, most of them playing in orchestras. You’ll hear a few of those classical pieces tonight from Algeria, Spain and Turkey. But you will also hear all the creations, torsions, collaborations and fusions modern artists are doing with their oud since the late 80’s and it’s mesmerizing. Enjoy!

Here are a few things I know about some artists you’ll hear tonight:

ANOUAR BRAHEM (tunisian), whose got a sensual touch, DHAFER YOUSSEF (another tunisian) with a more spiritual touch and RABIH ABOU KHALIL (lebannon) who composed superb pieces of modern classical arab music. All of them opened the oud to a whole new world in collaborating with a lot of different musicians, like Brahem and Abou Khalil or in having a peculiar and personal use, like Youssef. All of their albums/project are real ear treats and need to be listened from A to Z. You’ll hear also a refreshing algero-tunisian duo called DUOUD who brings the instrument to unexpected places, on their own or in collaboration with ABDULATIF YAGOUB from Yemen. The tradition of oud goes as far as Egypt (ABDEL GADIR SALIM) and Sudan : you’ll hear the great HAMZA EL DIN and a modern cover of him by the lebanese BACHAR MAL-KHALIFE (the pianist, son of a famous oud master). I didn’t resist so you’ll hear also some medieval music. From Spain, EDUARDO PANIAGUA, a spanish architect and musician, specialist of sacred and profane medieval spanish music, including arabo-andalusian music. He’s a virtuoso multi-instrumentist. He recorded dozens of superb albums. And from Turkey with the incredible band HESPERION XXI (lead by the spanish multi-instrumentist JORDI SAVALL) playing medieval Mediterranean musics. You’ll hear also the French THIERRY « TITI » ROBIN another great composer, influenced by Mediterranean, oriental and gipsy musics.

Dedication to #HermanusArnolfusPannevisVermaak

For those sat at Ma Xo listening : there is a song which « shouldn’t » be there, which one? ;-) Free promo cocktail to the first to notice.

It's free to listen! Note, this is not a DJ event.