Rêveries sur le Maqam Farahfaza (Jamil Ghanim) (1979, vinyl)

"Rêveries sur le Maqam Farahfaza" by Yemeni oud player and composer Jamil Ghanim. From "Luth au Yemen - Classique - 'Ud", the sixth album (out of 10) in the "Arabesques" series, released in 1979. You can listen to the other composition from this album here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I74Ap_GsAUY - See more details below: About the artist: "Jamil Othman Ghanim was born in Aden, Yemen, in 1941. He was introduced to music by his maternal uncles, the oud players Ahmad, Taha and Khalil. His only musical knowledge was from the Yemeni oral tradition, experience of local oud playing, and Egyptian music from popular films and songs. With a desire to improve his skills and expand his knowledge, he accepted a scholarship to the Music Institute in Baghdad, Iraq. He was impressed by the style of Iraqi oud master Jamil Bashir and discovered more about this music under his and Salman Shukur’s guidance. In 1968, Ghanim returned to Yemen and became a teacher of music history at a college. At the time, the Yemeni public were unreceptive of his sophisticated, highly complex style of playing, and he began working with the Ministry of Culture to safeguard the ancient traditional music. Ghanim was invited to Germany by musicologist Jurgend Elsener and travelled to East Berlin, where he was introduced to various European lutes. He subsequently acquired a French lute and performed a recital for television. He then returned to Aden and set about practicing both Eastern and Western lutes. At the time of this recording, Ghanim had been (since 1971) the director of the Aden National Institute for Music, with occasional returns to Baghdad for the International Music Congress".