Radwan, Nizar / Haifa
Album: Haifa   Collection:World
Artist:Radwan, Nizar   Added:Sep 2011
Label:Magda Music  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2011-10-02 Pull Date: 2011-12-04 Charts: Reggae/World
Week Ending: Dec 4 Nov 20 Nov 6 Oct 30 Oct 23 Oct 16 Oct 9
Airplays: 1 1 2 1 1 1 2

Recent Airplay
1. Apr 25, 2019: Cafe Nakhil
Takasim (Improvisation) On Violin And Sama'i Farahfaza, Zikrayat (Memories)
4. Jan 05, 2012: Mediterraneans
Haifa
2. Feb 13, 2013: Mediterraneans
Haifa
5. Dec 08, 2011: Mediterraneans
Improvisation On Hal-Asmar Al-Loun (The Dark Colored)
3. May 22, 2012: Mediterraneans
Folkloric Songs
6. Dec 01, 2011: Hi, Keefak, Ca Va?
Haifa

Album Review
Abu Ramses
Reviewed 2011-09-17
Nizar Radwan, “Haifa” (Magda Music, 2008)
Reviewed by Abu Ramses – ALL TRACKS FCC CLEAN

Nizar Radwan, conductor of the Arab Orchestra of Nazareth, offers a “personal” CD dedicated to his home town of Haifa, where he still lives in the house built by his grandfather. Modern-classical instrumental pieces feature Radwan on the violin & oud. Tracks 1, 2, 3 composed by Nizar Radwan; Michael Sajrawi: electric guitar & bass. Hagit Rosemarine: flute. Ramzi Besharat: Oriental percussion. Nabegh Abu Nicholas: bongos & ocean drum.

Sama‘i: a stately Turco-Arabic musical form with 2-3 sections (hanas) & refrain in 10/ 8 time; faster finale in ¾ time; then back to refrain
Hijaz Kar & Farahfaza: modes (maqams) in Middle Eastern music with different arrangements of ¼ tones.
Taqsim (plural, taqasim): an improvisation

Try
All are excellent. 1, 3, 4, 7 my faves.

Tracks
1. Haifa – Waves of sea & violin solo intro; then up beat ensemble - 5:09
2. Nissan (April) – mid-tempo ensemble, guitar solo - 5:29
3. Oud Improvisation and Sama‘i Hijaz Kar – Slow improv; then sama‘i - 7:04
4. Zikrayat (Memories) – mid-tempo ensemble & slow violin intros, then oud & violin rounds and variations of this mid-20th century piece by Egyptian Riyad al-Sunbati, the Arab equivalent of a blues-man. - 4:40
5. Taqasim on Violin and Sama‘i Farahfaza – Improvisations; then sama‘i by Turkish born Muhyi al-Din Haydar (1892-1964) who was invited to Iraq by King Faisal in 1930s & taught the great Iraqi oudists Jamil & Munir Bashir - 7:47
6. Improvisation on Ha l-Asmar al-loun (The Dark Colored, a Syrian folk tune) – slow oud improv with ocean drum accompaniment, then percussion solo & violin improv - 8:51
7. Folk Songs - Ya Loor (Addressing A Girl Named Loor); Ya Mayilah; (Addressing A Dancer); Abn'a Safi (My Classmates) – first 2 songs composed by the Lebanese Rahbani brothers; 3rd by his father, Suhayl Radwan, is often sung at school events and graduations – mid-tempo, melodic, bongo drums, guitar solos - 6:58

Track Listing
1. Haifa   4. Zikrayat (Memories)
2. Nissan (April)   5. Takasim (Improvisation) On Violin And Sama'i Farahfaza
3. Oud Improvisation And Sama'i Hijaz Kar   6. Improvisation On Hal-Asmar Al-Loun (The Dark Colored)
  7. Folkloric Songs