Imam Al-Hafiz Mohammad Syarif | ms
Mohammad is the doom chamber music project of Coti K, Ilios and Nikos Veliotis formed in 2009 in Athens, Greece. Having worked separately in the experimental field they decided to join forces in order to study and work on the principles of inter-modulation using contra-bass (Coti K), oscillators (Ilios) and cello (Nikos Veliotis). Coti K left the group in 2015.
http://www.mohammad.gr .
Imamyar Hasanov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1975. He started playing the kamancha at the age of 7 and eventually became the youngest soloist in Azerbaijan's National Music Instruments Orchestra. He has a Master's Degree in Art and Music from the Azerbaijan State Conservatory named after Uzeir Gadzhibekov. During his conservatory studies, he worked with Professor Agha Jabrayil Abasaliyev, who instructed him in the art of mugham. Imamyar is a dynamic virtuoso who performs Azerbaijani and Middle Eastern traditional improvisations as well as European classics for the first time as a kamancha soloist. He organized the first tar, kamancha,...
Afghan rebâb virtuoso Ustad Mohammad Omar, who was born sometime in the early 20th century, came to the United States in 1974 to Seattle’s University of Washington as an artist-in residence in the ethnomusicology department. On 18 November 1974, he gave his only U.S. concert, at the university’s Meany Hall. He was accompanied by 24-year-old Zakir Hussain, a budding Indian tabla player. Hussain went on to become a world-renowned tabla virtuoso. Ustad Mohammad Omar returned to Afghanistan after his year in Seattle and died in 1980. .
Imam Baildi is a very popular Southeast Mediterranean dish consisting of aubergine stuffed with onion, garlic, and tomatoes simmered in olive oil. It is a similar fine blend that brothers Lysandros and Orestis Falireas and their 8 piece band do - only in musical terms!
Here’s what happens in their melting pot: Bouzouki meets electro swing, Greek roots meet hip hop and mambo big band orchestration, and original Greek - Balkan brass action meets uplifting MC’s and Cuban montuno’s. A truly unique blend of Greek retro gems with new orchestration, production and remixing techniques the brothers were subjected to while...
Born in Tehran (1960), he started to study music (composition and playing the Trombone) with the Bulgarian Vanku Najdnof at the age of 14. A few years later he made his first compositions for TV series and stage acts.
Today , he is an established composer who has won numerous awards. He has written the scores of more than 140 movies including "So Close So Far", "Nargess" and "Ghadamgah" which brought him the award for best soundtrack from the Int'l Fajr Film Festival in Tehran. Among his other compositions are "Rastkhiz" Overture on Rumi's poems, "Noctural Songs" suite for 5...
