Artists
who's who and who's doing what?Anwar Abudrah & Maqamat Ensemble
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- Alaa Majeed (Ney)
- Anwar Abudragh (Laúd, viola y voz)
- Kadhim Nasser (Laúd)
- Mazin Mikhael (Santur)
- Mohammed Al Rubaie (Riqq )
- country:Iraq
- style(s):Maqam
- label:not signed
- type:Band, Composer/Songwriter
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
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Anwar Abudragh esta considerado uno de los mejores musicos iraquies. Al igual que los integrantes del Maqamat Ensemble. Discipulo del mas grande musico iraqui del siglo XX, el laudista Munir Bashir, un nombre fundamental en la lucha por la conservacion de la musica de Irak.
Anwar Abudrah y "Maqamat Ensemble" nos ofrecen toda la intensidad y belleza del arte del maqam iraqui, con una lectura autentica y brillante, no en vano se formaron en la escuela clasica de este arte, un arte que quiza no les sobreviva pues son sus mas jovenes depositarios. Juntos interpretan el maqam iraqui, considerada la tradicion musical mas bella y sofisticada de todo el mundo arabe, y debe su exuberancia a los diferentes influjos recibidos de otras culturas, como la persa y la turca, y tambien al repertorio poetico que utiliza en sus cantos.
Firmes defensores de este arte exquisito en peligro de desaparicion, estos cinco musicos, exiliados en cinco paises diferentes de Europa, pertenecen a la ultima generacion de interpretes formados en el Instituto de Musica de Bagdad, el centro musical mas prestigioso de Oriente, clausurado en los anos noventa.
The group Maqamat is considered an extension of the group Al-Bayariq ensemble which was founded by the famous artist Munir Bechir supervised by the famous Oud player Naseer Shamma. The members of Maqamat were the main members of Al-Bayariq.
Anwar Abudragh founded Maqamat Ensemble representing the Iraqi maqam school in 2006 in order to share this important Arabic musical and lyrical school with the rest of the world. This school is the representative of the Mesopotamian music art and civilization. Maqamat portrays the classical Arabic heritage of music particularly 'maqam'. Maqam holds a very important place among the Arabic classical lyrical forms.
Maqamat's music is a contemplative form of music. All the members studied music at the Institute of Musical Studies and the College of Fine Arts at Baghdad University in Iraq, where they also later taught music there. They deepened their musical knowledge by studying different Iraqi maqam styles from different periods.
The ensemble performs in many European countries as well as Arabic countries including: Belgium, Holland, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Greece, Jordan, Lebanon ,Egypt ,Abu-Dhabi and Algeria.
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