Saturday, April 9, 2011

A Palestinian Finds a Lute



Moneim Adwan, this son of Gaza loves the lute and he is old school that way, you need nothing complicated to play it...you just need to feel it and want to express yourself. It seems Mr. Adwan has figures this one out.

Per his page:

Moneim Adwan was born in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip of Palestine, near the Egyptian frontier. He began to sing Palestinian traditional songs and prayers of the Prophet Mohamed in his childhood. At 17 years old he start lute and study to the University of Tripoli (Libya) where he obtained a Master Degree in musicology with Professor Fateh El-Ramiz (song) and Abdallah Sabai (lute).

Since 1999 he has record four disks in France (BudaMusique, Accords Croises/Harmonia Mundi). His last disk is a traveling in the poetry of Gaza with musicians from West-Bank of Palestine, Egypt and his own compositions: Once upon a time in Palestine (Accords Croises/Harmonia Mundi, 2005).

In June 2004, he sung in the Festival of Fez in Morocco and then, on different European stages: Babelmedmusic (Marseille-France, 2005), Cite des Sciences et de l’Industrie (Paris-France, 2004), Festival International de Clarinette (Glomel-France, 2005), Festival des Voix des Pays (Fougeres-France, 2005), Il duomo del Frioli (Italy, 2005), Musical Center of Vredenburg (Netherland, 2006), Theatre de la Monnaie (Bruxelles-Belgium, 2006).


Moneim Adwan Beautiful Palestinian oud and riq music performed at a festival in Fez

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