Thread: Please identify this drum solo

Hello

This has been driving me nuts for a year, ever since I first saw this video. I loved her performance and music so much that I played it at least once a day for like 3 weeks afterward.

Aliya

Can someone please tell me where to find this drum solo? I know that the basic tune is "Ya Amera", but it's not the track from Amera's album. This is much more complex. I have tried emailing online arabic music experts, Aliya (the dancer), and Amera's online store asking about it, all to no avail.

Any help is appreciated.

The basic track is Om Kalthoum cocktail from the "Amani Red" CD, actually. I don't know the drum solo either, but it's a great one, and I'd like to know it, too.

Thank you for your help.

Recently one of the online arabic music experts emailed me to tell me that the intro was "Coktail Om Kalthoum". I'd been looking for that for nearly a year, too. I've seldom heard more beautiful music in my life! I get lost in it every time I hear it.

I have seen two other videos with this drum solo in it. The one was of Valeria Putitskaya; unfortunately, I don't speak Russian (online translation services are not appropriate for composing correspondence, unless one wants to pick up Foot-in-Mouth disease) or even have contact info for her, so I can't write her to ask. The other was a video dancer on YouTube posted of herself, but I can't remember her name or enough about the video or her to bring up the video or her personal web site in a search. Oh well, it's only music, right? (Tries to convince herself that she won't die if she doesn't find this track).

Tracy

I bet someone here will know! We have several Russian dancers on Bhuz, perhaps one of them will be able to help.

Oh, and the Om Kalthoum cocktail consists of the songs Amal Hayati and Fakkarouni, if I remember correctly.

Originally Posted by tamrahennatx

The basic track is Om Kalthoum cocktail from the "Amani Red" CD, actually. I don't know the drum solo either, but it's a great one, and I'd like to know it, too.

Sorry, I rambled on and on in my original post, and yet I wasn't very clear. I meant that the basic melody of the drum solo (if a drum solo can have a melody) was "Ya Amera", a drum solo written for Amera of Australia.

Silly me!

spiced

Originally Posted by tamrahennatx

Oh, and the Om Kalthoum cocktail consists of the songs Amal Hayati and Fakkarouni, if I remember correctly.

Yes, you are correct, the melody of "Coktail Om Kalthoum" is "Amal Hayati".

spiced

Originally Posted by spicedjellybeans

Sorry, I rambled on and on in my original post, and yet I wasn't very clear. I meant that the basic melody of the drum solo (if a drum solo can have a melody) was "Ya Amera", a drum solo written for Amera of Australia.

Silly me!

spiced

Hah, oh sorry, I totally misunderstood! I've never quite thought of it that way.

Actually the cocktail piece is a medley of Amal Hayati, Fakkourini and Leilet Hob.

What would help me most would be Russian translation for emails to Aliya Kurbanova (the dancer in the video) and Valeria Putitskaya who also used this drum solo in a routine.

In addition, there was a dancer who put up a video of herself doing a drum solo to this track on YouTube about 6 months or a year ago. If I remember correctly, she was based in Spain, Portugal or France, but was originally from North Africa. If I had access to some comprehensive directories of dancers in these nations, I might actually find her and email her to ask about it. She replied to comments in English, so I should actually be able to communicate with her once I find her.

spiced

Spiced...it just so happens that I appear to have the 'Ya Amera' piece you're talking about! I thought it looked familiar...and sure enough...I checked...and I have it!
I'll see if I can get its original source, I only have it on my computer and on a practice CD I burnt. I don't know if thats any help, but its something right?

What is the album this Ya Amera piece is on?

I don't know what album its from. I'm going to see if I can find out....I know someone who'll know...so I'll ask her tomorrow night.

Thank you everyone for all your help.

The original (I assume) "Ya Amera" is on Amera's album Al Ra'Kasa We Tabbal. This track is very nice, too. Perhaps the drum solo in the video is on another of her albums. She's had three, although I can only find two of them for sale.

Or perhaps the track on the video is not even named "Ya Amera". It might have just simply used "Ya Amera" as one of the layers, since it apparently has many elements to it.

spiced

I actually just have the drum solo piece...it appears to be called Ya Amera....forgot to clarify before :-)

Its definitely the drum solo the girl is dancing to though in that clip.

Thank you so much!

Could it be? Wonderful!

spiced

Originally Posted by AmaraOmShazadi

I don't know what album its from. I'm going to see if I can find out....I know someone who'll know...so I'll ask her tomorrow night.

Any luck?

spicedjellybeans

The drum solo is called Ya Amera (ok you knew that)

As far as I can tell...

Artist: Jamal Zraika

Album: Al Ra'Kasa We Tabbel

Is this the other youtube vid you were looking for?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BSSDGO...elated&search=

I've not heard of this album before. Is there an Australian vendor selling it?

Amera was selling it (in Australia), but she is currently out of stock as she is re-releasing it and it won't be ready until November. They have it for sale here:
http://www.aladdinscave.com/

If anybody has this cd let me know if it is worth buying, as I'm considering buying it but it comes out to about $27 and I'm not sure if I want to pay that much!

Cari

Originally Posted by NandaDncer

The drum solo is called Ya Amera (ok you knew that)

As far as I can tell...

Artist: Jamal Zraika

Album: Al Ra'Kasa We Tabbel

Is this the other youtube vid you were looking for?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BSSDGO...elated&search=

No, it's a different one, but thank you. It's pretty fantastic in its own right.

spiced

Originally Posted by bellycool

Amera was selling it (in Australia), but she is currently out of stock as she is re-releasing it and it won't be ready until November. They have it for sale here:
http://www.aladdinscave.com/

If anybody has this cd let me know if it is worth buying, as I'm considering buying it but it comes out to about $27 and I'm not sure if I want to pay that much!

Cari

I'm a big fan of dancer produced cd's even though they are generally more expensive. The trade off, of course, is that they always have Heaps more usable songs on them than your usual $11 cd from maqam.

What I like about Amera's cds is that they often have a good variety of oriental songs and at least 2 or 3 drum solos on them.

That particular cd has 5 drum solos, ranging from 2 - 5 mins in length, all good quality, by which I mean very clear and 'live drum' sounding and good for performance rather than sounding synthezied.

It also has and Oud Taqsim and a med tempo Qanoon based version of LamaBada with a 1 min qanoon intro, I use this one for Samaii rhythm demo in class.

Originally Posted by spicedjellybeans

Hello

This has been driving me nuts for a year, ever since I first saw this video. I loved her performance and music so much that I played it at least once a day for like 3 weeks afterward.

Aliya

Can someone please tell me where to find this drum solo? I know that the basic tune is "Ya Amera", but it's not the track from Amera's album. This is much more complex. I have tried emailing online arabic music experts, Aliya (the dancer), and Amera's online store asking about it, all to no avail.

Any help is appreciated.

Hi,

I know Amera and Jamal Zraika very well. I also have the cd. That is "Ya Amera" but it's been edited at 2:44 so is shorter and the roll at the end, 3:10-3014, sounds like it's from something else.

If you are looking at other drum solos from Jamal check out

http://www.myspace.com/jamalzraika