February 6, 2008, no. 11 
El Tarab El Aseel available at onestops and in street stores!

Dear ,

El Tarab El Aseel is now officially available, thanks to our distributor, City Hall Records, in street stores and shipping from online stores.
Kindly check your local record store---it's available, e.g. at Kodak Theatre's Virgin Megastores in Hollywood, the place of the last Democratic debate and the home of the Academy Award's Ceremony. (Ask if it's still in-stock, because they will restock it if it's not.) Check also Virgin's Union Square and Times Square. Also, check out Amoeba store, e.g. in Berkeley.
Here is a list of the online onestops. Copy, paste and share them with your friends!

MTV Shop
CDUniverse
Amazon
Tower Records
Deal Time
Pricegrabber
Ebay
Epinions
VH1
CDConnection
BestPrices
Timbuktunes
Takht's own, Mohamed Foda and Mahmoud Abdel-Fetah

Takht's own, Mohamed Foda, nay, and Mahmoud Abdel-Fetah, oud, will be appearing on Link TV in their Grammy Winning collaboration with, Youssef N-Dour on February 12, 9:00PM, PST in the 2005 benefit concert, "Malaria Live".
1-LAMA 2007 2-NAR's Top 100 3-"Sahra" 4-Jan/Feb. issue of Global Rhythm Magazine 5- Radio plays in Japan! 6-Arabic Music Tip

1- Here I am accepting my LAMA in World Instrumental.

2- El Tarab El Aseel made New Age Reporter's Top 100 Recordings for 2007.

3- Also, some of my students and students of UCLA Prof. Jihad Racy's Near East Ensemble are having a musical gathering---"sahra" in the Pacific Palisades. If your interested in coming email me:
music@riadabdelgawad.com.

4- Global Rhythm Magazine has a review of El Tarab El Aseel, still available in its double Jan/Feb. 2008 issue. Pick one up at your newstand!

5- El Tarab El Aseel made the Japanese airwaves from October through December 2007 at the following stations:

Sapporomura Radio (Hokkaida Radio)
Sankakuyama Broadcasting (Hokkaida Radio)
Shinkawa Community Broadcasting (Toyama)
FM Tajimi (Gifu)
Yamato Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (Kanagawa)
FM Shimizu (Shizuoka)
Kyoto Community Broadcasting (Kyoto)

6- Arabic Music Tip:
What's a Maqam? In about 60 words, "maqam", literally means place, or musically speaking---melodic mode, (re: mode as mood). Now very musically speaking, maqam, 1) has at least two series (coming in time one after the other) of three to five adjacent tones per series, 2) these series commonly known as "ajnas" but sometimes called "'uqad"--- chains (of tones) have particular distances (i.e. intervals) from one tone to the next, AND 3) maqam has a definitive starting/ending tone---"bidi'a/rukuuz" AND a central tone---"ghammaaz" which binds its "ajnas", or chains together.

With kindest regards,
Riad

riadabdelgawad.com
myspace.com/musicariad
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