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Orchestra of Samples
We’ve began work on our new performance project Orchestra of Samples. It’s a long-term all encompassing sampling extravaganza, featuring recorded musicians from around the world, from Mexico to Senegal, Brazil to France. Sampling ‘sans frontières’ you might say!
 
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string instruments

  guitar   cobza   jaranas   harp   guitarron   violin   oud   kora   hoddu   ngoni   gombri   viola   cavaquinho   berimbau   

percussion instruments

  drums   djembe   flamenco box   hang   taiko   qraqeb   castanets   talking drums   darbouka   pandeiro   reco-reco   

keyboard instruments

  accordion   

wind instruments

  flute   pipe   caval   tilinca   bagpipe   bombard   biniou   whistle   trumpet   

voices

  rap   harmony   

UNITED KINGDOM

  My Real Name Is Starship   

FRANCE

  Lyse   Erwan Keravec   Guénolé Keravec   Ivonig Le Mestre   Mathieu Sérot   Magali Le Sciellour   Marie Wambergue   Patrick Oustric   Christian Conejero   

SPAIN

  Livika   Luis Ortega   Fernando Alfaro   Ana Cristina Arias   

ROMANIA

  Florin Iordan   Trei Parale   Calin Torsan   

MEXICO

  Mariachi   Munazul   César Juarez   Héctor Vega Delo   Humberto Alvarez   aztec   

TUNISIA

  Seifeddine Helal   Hamdi Makhlouf   Zouhheir Gouja   

SENEGAL

  Baye Fall Ndem   Abdoul Mbaye   Pape Mass   Massamba Diop   Matador   I-Science   Matar Diagne   

MAURITANIA

  Demba Fakourou   

MALI

  Oumar Kouyaté   

BRAZIL

  Mazinho Quevedo   Antonio Fernando Candido   Andréa dos Santos   Marina Mara   Patubatê   Samba de Responsa   

ISRAEL

  Nir Yaniv   Aram Drevekenin   Ira Bareli   Tal Segev   

ITALY

  Mos   circuit bending   toys   Trieste   

EGYPT

  Cairo   ney   Mohammed Antar   
Recording ney flautist Mohammed Antar
December 2011 and we headed to Egypt to play at the Cairo Disco 2011 event, where the organisers and the very helpful British Council introduced us to Egyptian ney player Mohammed Antar, who's a composer and founding conductor of the Ensemble Munajah for meditative middle-eastern music.  His musical education began at the age of four, studying piano, flute, recorder and the accordion before learning how to play the ney.  He's also blind which makes things even more incredible.  Total respect.

His commitment to Middle-Eastern classical and traditional music, especially to spiritual branches of music, has made him a complete master of Arabic, Turkish and Persian ney blowing techniques.  Mohammed likes to create links between both the rich musical heritage of Middle-Eastern music and of contemporary styles, so was totally across
what we were doing.
He's performed in countries from Lebanon to Iran, and regularly plays in Egypt, Turkey and sometimes Europe, particularly in Hungary, as a soloist or with several musical groups including the Ensemble Munajah, Tara M and the Asil Ensemble (a group conducted by his brother, the oud player Mustafa Said).  He's also released the albums The Arab Maqam (of solo ney improvisations) and Oriental Breeze, who he recorded with the Oriental Secrets Ensemble.  With his band, the Sharqistan Quartette, he's also composed the soundtracks of two documentaries by director Hala El-Qoussy.
Check out www.mohammedantar.com and www.facebook.com/mohammed.sm.antar

Huge thanks to Cathy at the British Council.