Maqam

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Leader: ultragroove
Join Policy: Open
Created on: 16 Oct 2009
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If you like Traditional and Classic, Instrumental Middle East Music - this is your group! It's all about Taqasim, Oud, Samai, Longa, Dulab, Dastgah, Daramand, Taksim, Buzuq, Kemance, Baglama, Saz,...

This is a group for listeners & lovers of traditional, classic, folk, instrumental Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Kurdish, North African music.

Maqam (Makam, Mugam, Dastgah) is the modal structure that characterizes the art of music of countries in North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia (like the Ragas in Indian music). In this area we can distinguish for main musical cultures which all belong to the Maqam family, namely the Kurdish, the Persian, the Arabic and the Turkish. (Read more here)

The Maqam Playlist --> From Morocco to Pakistan

More infos about the maqam system --> MaqamWorld.com

The Maqam Tag --> Maqam - Tag

The Maqam Tag Radio --> Maqam - Radio

If you are playing or learning to play Middle East instruments (e.g. Oud, Kanun, Nay, Santoor ...) you will benefit from the music we collect in this group. Therefore, it would be helpful if you tag all instrumental Middle East music that is related to Maqam with "maqam" (e.g. Taqasim, Samai, Dulab, Longa, Bashraf, Peshrev...). Thanks.

Active Discussions

Erkan-Yilmaz commented on
“Artist connections” (10) April 2011

ultragroove commented on
“Music of the Oud, etc.” (2) March 2010

ultragroove commented on
“Recommended Music” (1) February 2010

Recent Journals

NATACHA ATLAS by sozcelem | 5 Dec 2010
Recommended Iraqi Non-Pop Music. (Instrumental, Classic, Folk) by ultragroove | 23 Oct 2009

Weekly Top Artists

Overall Unique to this Group

1	Miles Davis	6
2	Santana	5
3	George Benson	5
4	The Roots	5
5	Radiohead	5
6	Joan Baez	5
7	Blur	5
8	Nina Simone	5
9	Yann Tiersen	5
10	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	5

Connected Artists

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AZADIBOK

Hello! Today I've set this group in relationship to Kurdish folk group!

September 2011
Miss_Erotica

مرحبا بكم في مجموعة الرقص لدينا المتعة ...Salām ~ Welcome...http://www.lastfm.de/group/Global+Erotic+Dance

June 2011
ultragroove

We reached the 200 connected artist limit... any ideas how we deal with it?

March 2011
ultragroove

welcome bsnlfqrhqqn and koyukon. you'r right koyukon, Omar Metioui is connected now, thanks for the recommendation.

October 2010
koyukon

oh hello everyone! ... recently I started to listen to the oud and I really like it ... I also noticed that you haven't connected Omar Metioui yet ... lovely playing of the oud ... bye and all the best!

October 2010
ultragroove

welcome to our new members: KINGOFHURR, misscarlos2, fitindian. thanks for joining!

May 2010
ultragroove

thanks for your kind words avivamagnolia! and be welcome. glad to have you in!

April 2010
avivamagnolia

Thank you! Fantastically-organized site, ultragroove. Remarkable, really. I'm enjoying "Maqam Radio" right now, and reading the Maqam World site you suggested. Appreciate your efforts to coordinate this; it's a real gem.

April 2010
ultragroove

you'r welcome Sevish! and Splitnotes too... ;) thanks for joining!

April 2010
Sevish

Hey. :) I'm not a fan of maqam music in particular, more a general microtone-lover, though I do enjoy Ozan Yarman's music.

April 2010
NumberNineDream

Well yeah, he's what we call Oriental Jazz, but he has worked a lot with Rouhana, and other "Classical" middle eastern musicians... Like Dhafer Youssef (which I see, is added on the list). Great list btw, I need to check a lot of those names.

March 2010
ultragroove

http://www.last.fm/group/Maqam/connections

March 2010
ultragroove

welcome NumberNineDream. Marcel Khalife and Charbel Rouhanana already connected long time ago.. ;). anyway, thanks for the recommendations. would connect Toufic Farroukh, although i think he's more on jazz then on classical middle east music. what do you think?

March 2010
NumberNineDream

You got some very unconsistent charts on here xD Anyway, I think you must add to the Connected Artists: Marcel Khalife, Toufiq Farroukh and Charbel rouhana. Cheers.

March 2010
ultragroove

an excellent welcome to our newest member: solomonarul!

March 2010
solomonarul

Excellent.

March 2010
ultragroove

welcome the newest member, m7moud!

March 2010
ultragroove

Welcome yelow!

March 2010
Grosseteste

Thaks - nice to be here...

February 2010
ultragroove

Welcome our newest members: sufi17, Grosseteste, mostly-harmless and sozcelem - Thanks for joining. :)

February 2010