Untapped Sounds of a Buzq | Farah Kaddour

Buzq player and musicologist Farah Kaddour, joins us in the afikra studio in Beirut to give us a tour of her music and her instrument. Alongside musical interludes and live performances, we talk about the specific sound and identity of the Buzq and Farah's individual performance style. She tells us about how she experiments with the sound she's able to create with the Buzq and how playing this traditional instrument is in itself a form of political resistance. Finally she tells us about her first solo project - Badā - which consists of a mix of composed and improvised music.
0:00 Introduction
1:16 Why Buzq? And Inspirational Buzq Players
4:44 Teaching Buzq & Musical Institutions
6:10 A Tour of Farah’s Buzq
10:42 Start of Farah’s Career
12:37 Folk vs Classical Music
18:51 What Post-Folk Means
21:28 Interlude 1: Ya Nas
24:42 Performing With A Band vs Solo
27:42 Interlude 2: Badā
33:27 Political Resistance & Preservation
37:35 Different Audiences
41:55 Interlude 3: From Badā
44:25 Harmonics of the Buzq
49:15 Interlude 4: Colors of the Maqams
52:06 Tilt Ensemble & Artists To Check Out
Farah Kaddour is a Beirut-based musician and researcher. She holds a master’s degree in Musicology from the Antonine University. She works mainly in the field of folk and classical Arabic music, and attempts to rediscover and experiment with the sound of the Buzq by shedding light on the intersection between the identity of its sound, and the identity of a new, yet rooted music she presents both as a soloist, and active member on a range of diverse collaborations. As a Buzq player and composer, she is a part of TILT and SANAM. In the summer of 2023, she released with SANAM their first debut album “Aykathani Malakon” on UK-based label Mais Um. She is releasing her first solo album “Badā” on Canadian label Asadun Alay.
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