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Friendship: Oud & Sadaqa Quartet by Rahim Alhaj
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fave it Middle East | Contemporary
8 tracks | 53 minutes
Released Mar 2006
on Fast Horse Recordings
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"This interchange seeks to build an understanding between the musical currents of east meets west and with the merging of the two divergent traditions into one beautiful harmony".
Bio / Background
The cross-fertilization that can occur with a musician as sensitive and receptive as Rahim Alhaj has yielded an arresting new CD titled Friendship. Alhaj is an oud master from Baghdad, Iraq, who studied at the Bagdhad Conservatory and performed with the great Munir Bashir throughout the Middle East and Europe. He is now based in Albuquerque, New Mexico and in addition to this wonderful current oud/string quartet CD, has just recorded his fourth CD, When the Soul is Settled: Music of Iraq to be released by Smithsonian Folkways in June 2006.
Alhaj's partners in this current CD venture: Friendship: Rahim Alhaj, oud and Sadaqa Sring Quartet, are a quartet of highly skilled classical musicians joined together as the Sadaqa Quartet, including Catherine "Katie" Jean Harlow, arranger and cellist, David Felberg, first violinist, Jason Parris, violist, and Carmelo de los Santos, second violinist.
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