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Tel Aviv-based oud player Amos Hoffman’s CD Na’ama features 12 of his original compositions inspired by the great Arab composers of the 20th century.

Amos started playing guitar at the age of 6 and oud a few years later. His search for new musical experiences led him first to Amsterdam and then to New York City, where he played his oud in jazz settings and studied Middle Eastern music with Lebanese oud player Bassam Saba. He began writing the music for Na’ama (a woman’s name meaning ‘beautiful’) upon his return to Israel in 1999. It features solo oud as well as accompaniment on ney, violin, bass, percussion and, unusually, marimba.

Playlist

1421
Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)

1422
CD Cut 2 - 'Takasim Nahawand'
Amos Hoffman
Pub Not Spec
Magda MGD 053 (no Australian distributor
worldwide: www.magda.co.il )
Amos Hoffman - 'Na'ama'
3:28
(Intelligent and supple solo oud improvisation)

Segue

1426
CD Cut 3 - 'Samai Nahawand'
Amos Hoffman
Pub Not Spec
Magda MGD 053 (no Australian distributor
worldwide: www.magda.co.il )
Amos Hoffman - 'Na'ama'
3:55
(a continuation of the previous piece, starting on low oud string, with a classical air)

1430
CD Cut 4 - 'Kiryat HaYovel'
Amos Hoffman
Pub Not Spec
Magda MGD 053 (no Australian distributor
worldwide: www.magda.co.il )
Amos Hoffman - 'Na'ama'
6:00
(Percussion, oud, violin and high ney in this swirling, lively, rhythm changing instrumental. )

Segue

1436
CD Cut 1 - 'Nu Nu'
Avishai Cohen
Gadu Music BMI
RazDaz/Stretch Records SSC 4603 www.avishaimusic.com
Avishai Cohen - 'Continuo'
5:14
(Bowed bass and improvising oud make dark splash, then piano arpeggio brightens what becomes a driving post modern jazz piece with crisp drums and Avishai soloing on plucked bass)

1443
CD Cut 10 - 'Movies Are a Mother to Me'
Loudon Wainwright
Pub Not Spec
Yep Roc ( in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.yeproc.com )
Loudon Wainwright - 'Recovery'
3:12
(Slowly building, laconic presentation of clever song in which Loudon paints himself as his own enemy, who accompanies himself to the movies, after which peace is reached)

Segue

1446
CD Cut 1 - 'Sex and Gasoline'
Rodney Crowell
Sony/ATV Music/J Only Publishing ASCAP
In Australia through Shock CTX431 CD
Rodney Crowell - 'Sex and Gasoline'
(Country-funk rocker about advertising and films' way of making women nothing more than 'never too thin' sex objects who are worthless after the age of 40)

1452
CD Cut 5 - 'Na'ama'
Amos Hoffman
Pub Not Spec
Magda MGD 053 (no Australian distributor
worldwide: www.magda.co.il )
Amos Hoffman - 'Na'ama'
3:54
(Solemn duet for oud and answering, trilling marimba

1456
CD Cut 6 - 'Emotional Storm'
Avishai Cohen
Gadu Music BMI
RazDaz/Stretch Records SSC 4603 www.avishaimusic.com
Avishai Cohen - 'Continuo'
Three minute excerpt
(Modern, powerful piano trio plus Amos Hoffman's trilling oud in unison with piano and bass)

Presenter

Lucky Oceans

Producer

Lucky Oceans