Mustafa Sings!

Mustafa finishes a visit to my home with a third number, singing and improvising around one of his own compositions, based on some of the quatrains of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Amazing oud, amazing vocals, amazing Mustafa!

[@ahmadnasir541]

I am still watching this video... It was ten years since you upload this. From this video i became like oud guitar much. Musthofa is one of my favourit player... Thank you.

[@user-zo3mb4sz4w]

Fabulous

[@rashasheeha8017]

يارب يوفقك ويسعدك ويخليك لنا

[@lordofthestrings_heritage]

He is really something special. I enjoy his style a lot.

[@wxxo]

الله الله الله الله يا فن

[@TheFolksinger]

@wazzapgangsta Thanks for the comment. Hopefully Mustafa will be back in Cairo soon, and we can perhaps do more of this.

[@TheFolksinger]

@crash9321 Thanks, on Mustafa's behalf and my own. I have nothing but the highest regard for Mustafa, certainly one of the greates young oud players alive. And a good singer who gets real emotion into the songs he sings.

[@deadzior]

so fast melodic playing with singing.. great

[@cafeespresso99]

@TheFolksinger Yes absolutely. i love them both in different ways because they each create distinctly different moods.

[@TheFolksinger]

@AbsurdBrane You are most welcome. Mustafa is one of the world's finest oud players, and I feel honored that he is willing to drop by as a friend and share his music with me, and with the KZbin world.

[@Turki88100]

@TheFolksinger He has a wonderful voice. Thanks for uploading the video.

[@manueldeswaaf]

DO-FA-LA-RE-SOL-do-fa? So beautiful. I started playing the oud myself after finding this video a year ago, bought the CD recently aswel! SHUKRAN

[@manueldeswaaf]

I'm a guitarist, love modal music :)

[@TheFolksinger]

@lefterhsk1 Yes. Mustafa's music is oten "out of this world". Thanks for the comment.

[@Hoopermazing]

That is some serious headstock back-angle!

[@Ahmed_MA]

الملحن والمطرب الشاب ومغنى الثورة ابن مصر مصطفى سعيد ومدرس فى بيت العود بلبنان

[@TheFolksinger]

There's a good chance that Mustafa will be performing in many places during the coming months and years. When he is back in Cairo for more than a few days, I will try to find out more about his long term residence ideas. He is a man on the move.

[@TheFolksinger]

@crash9321 Thanks again. I have the greatest respect fo Mustafa, certainly one of the finest young oud players in the world. And a fine singer as well, projecting and injecting deep emotion into the words of his song.

[@OstazFarid]

very talent

[@wahech007]

ghinaaa asilll w 3azeff la yo3laaa 3lehhh !! alla yi7mik ya rabb :D

[@cafeespresso99]

The guitar is in fact a cut down version of the oud. The guitar was introduced to europe (spain) as an adaptation of the oud during the Islamic reign in spain.

[@TheFolksinger]

@Hoopermazing Those intervals are integral to the maqams, which are sort of like scales, but which at least to me seem much more complex and make use of half flatted notes in many ways. Makes the music exciting as well as beautiful.

[@Hoopermazing]

@TheFolksinger - I actually looked it up after your last reply, and learn how it and the fretted European lute are offshoots of the same ancient instrument. I really like those (forgive my musical ignorance) in between non-chromatic intervals that he's able to play on the oud.

[@adilbelmokaddem6667]

I'm proud to be an arab

[@TheFolksinger]

@Bzbooz123 Thanks for the encouragement. We will keep trying.

[@crash9321]

Nice!

[@TheFolksinger]

@elnivan I agree entirely. I am waiting for Mustafa to return to Egypt (presently he is studying and performing in Beirut) so we can do some more like this. That is, if he agrees. Cheers for Mustafa!

[@TheFolksinger]

@deadzior I agree. Mustafa is the best!

[@MrCoolbeanstogo]

Ahlan Mustafa,....ahlan

[@TheFolksinger]

Thanks. I know that Mustafa checks these comments occasionally, and that he appreciates them. Cheers!

[@TheFolksinger]

@cafeespresso99 Thanks for the translation. We share your feelings.

[@TheFolksinger]

@smokingblunts1 No. Mustafa is Egyptian. But he plays lots of Turkish music as well as other music from other places.

[@TheFolksinger]

@bulerias81 Thanks for the kind words.

[@TheFolksinger]

@Hoopermazing Actually, I assumed that. But for the general public, the oud may seem to some as a new instrument, though it is indeed historically old.

[@TheFolksinger]

Yes, he is blind, but he never allows that to defeat him.

[@TheFolksinger]

@oud11 I'll just say aiwa, and hope the comment was kind. Mustafa and I were to meet a few days ago, but the demonstrations in Cairo made it impossible.

[@TheFolksinger]

@Hoopermazing This is a really well made oud. A pretty typical angle, though.

[@TheFolksinger]

@deadzior Thanks for your confirmation.

[@TheFolksinger]

@cafeespresso99 Thanks again.

[@TheFolksinger]

@wxxo I've got to learn to read Arabic with precision. But thanks, and I know Mustafa will read these comments.

[@TheFolksinger]

@cafeespresso99 I guess there is a lot of truth in this historical linkage. Nice that now both exist and function quite differently.

[@Hoopermazing]

@TheFolksinger I'm more or less unfamiliar with that instrument. In fact, a first glance, I thought that it was a craviola. However, I was speaking (tongue in cheek) from the perspective of a guitarist with the headstock comment.

[@TheFolksinger]

@awtariii I'll assume Mustafa will read this when he has someone check for him. I'll also assume it is a nice comment (I can't read Arabic accurately) and thank you for it.

[@cafeespresso99]

@TheFolksinger tried posting a translation for wahech007's message but it fails to appear...Here's one last try: ghinaaa asilll --> authentic / traditional singing w 3azeff la yo3laaa 3lehhh --> and playing (of instrument) which cannot be surpassed alla yi7mik ya rabb --> may Allah protect you

[@smokingblunts1]

is he turkish because i am

[@MrFaresProduction]

He stole the whole universe talents !

[@TheFolksinger]

Indeed!

[@TheFolksinger]

@wahech007 Showed this to a friend who speaks Egyptian Arabic, but he couldn't read it. A translation in English, if possible?

[@oud11]

يااااااسلااااااام ..... شنو جنسيتك ؟؟

[@edwardpowellmusic]

95% ...he is not typically blind - like genetically 100%... what happened is his father was exposed to Israeli chemical weapons which caused damage to his DNA, therefore Mustafa and his brother Modhammed both have a kind of 95% blindness. It can be cured with a special new type of surgery.