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Other sides of Kamal Musallam
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Al Qasba Project with Anne Ducros - A cultural event in Sharjah
The first cutural event in the UAE, or possibly in the Middle East, to officialy intriduce Jazz and Arabic music under one cultural umbrella!! This event will combine famous American and European Jazz artist and local professional and amateur musicians, allowing them to perform together as well as in special individual shows. Kamal Musallam has been chosen to manage the event musically, supervising its master classes, producing its concerts, and jam sessions, and to play the oud along with the artists coming each month. A special page will be dedicated on our site for this event. It will show pictures of all activities of the event, that will take place on a monthly basis. The link will start operating mid November 2005, and will be: http://www.kamalmusallam.net/alqasba/alqasba.htm Great show @ BLUE NOTE CAFÉ, Beirut Kamal Musallam Trio has performed at the Blue Note Cafe in Hamra, Beirut on October 26 -2005. A very successful show with Kamal on the guitar and oud, accompanied by Rony Afif on the drums and Elie Afif on the double and electric basses. Show produced by Waleed Akar from Music West.
NEW OUD DESIGN PROJECT! In collaboration with master oud maker Faruk Turunz A complete innovation in the history of oud. The new design suggested by kamal Musallam, to be constructed by the Faruk Turunz..... 2nd appearance in an American guitar magazine Full interview with the 20th Century Guitar magazine - August 2005 issue Article coming soon... NEW RELEASE! on the way out to the market before the end of 2005! Meditations on the record's musical vision, producion plan, and full follow-up to the production process.... 1st appearance in an American guitar magazine After having the album " On a Jordan River's Side" available on the Internet through CDBABY, as well as on so many digital distribution sites, the eye of the media in the west had a bigger chance to meet Kamal Musallam and discover his music and vision. Two of those were Music Web Express and TCGuitar, were the editor Robert Silverstein discovered Kamal's Music and found it very exciting and interesting to expose to the west by writing about it. The album review in 20th Century Guitar - July 2005 issue - expresses the appreciation of an honest western ear, and honors the production of the record for it's musical creativity, originality, and the quality of the technical work.
Cover Review An un-expected show @ AMIGO, Jordan Kamal was invited to join his old fellows to play at the Jordanian club Amigo, in Amman, on July 6 2005. A huge crowd was there to enjoy the music and the band was joined by the American saxophonist, Gabriel
Playing with Stanley Jordan Kamal had the great honor to be selected to play along one of the worlds most talented and dedicated guitarists, Stanley Jordan. The show took place at the closing of the second annual Abu Dhabi Jazz Festival 2005, where Kamal played the oud along with Stanley on the guitar, performing two of the great standards by Carlos Jobim - How Insensitive and Wave. Stanley was so impressed with Kamal ability both as Arabic musician, and Oud player to express his musical ideas and emotions through those two songs with such musicianship and high level, although he felt at some points the deep melancholic sounds coming from Kamal's oud - as Stanley expressed later - which is a character of any Arabic artist living all the sufferings of the Middle East region. They were joined by Anne Ducros, Manu le Prince, Carlos Werneck, William Lecompte, and Christophe Bras.
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