keith Jarret for his modal solos that made me pick up oud again.
Bobby MacFarren for the solo conterpoint.
Vicente Amigo, for playing less sounds more.
Nasser shamma for oud technique
and his teacher Munir Bashir the spirit.
John scofield jam and groove.
Jaco pastorious for his simplicity.
Mingus for his complexity and dyrtiness
Gary Peacock flowing but solid bass lines
Johanne Sebastian Bach his harpsicord and luth work,
Everyone that I played with.
People and cultures from all continents.
I am a musician and instructor.
I mainly play Bass and oud (lute).
Autobiography:
Music was there, as long as I remimber, singing for parties and playing music toys. I was 11 years old when I started a 5 year conservatory program. I also joined bands and took lessons with different teachers. At 19, I was playing bass 6 nights a week at a 5 stars Hotel, but most important, practicing about 8 hours a day. That was in Tunisia, my homeland.
I mooved to Moncton NB Canada, in 1993. I took classical guitar as a main instrument, but I was giging and recording as a bass player with jazz, blues, pop and worldbeat bands. It was great back there, I had to do a lots of shows for festivals, to compose for films. I made several appearences on TV5, CBC, Radio Canada, Global TV and others. I started teaching private and small groups in 1998.
In 2002, I had to move to the cosmopolitain city of Montreal. I am still here, I've been playing with musicians from all over the world. Manouche, Chineese, jazz, arab , turkish, drum and bass and of course rock and jazz. I formed one traditionnal arab band with a funky, earthy sound and another jazz trio with a rownd ethnic groove to it.
These are some of the projects that in some point I was involved with:
www.backstrings.com
www.christinetassan.com
www.elfuego.ca
http://www.isound.com/joe_larocque_and_the_mellowaves
www.liufangmusic.net
And some festivals such as:
www.festivalarabe.com
www.montrealjazzfest.com
www.festivalnuitsdafrique.com/
www.harvestjazzandblues.com/
www.ecma.ca
Right now I am working on 3 different recording projects. I'll put some songs on myspace as soon as they're ready. Thank you for visiting.
Salut mon ami ! Bon vent Mohamed, Merci pour tes mots, et ta musique... Je branche mon poêle dans mon nouvel atelier et on se claque un espresso sur le feu..! ** Hâte de te voir, salutations, T.
Quel plaisir de d'entendre comme cela au gré des pas de la vie et des vents. Ton jeu est magnifique, d'une grande profondeur qui enrichi le moment de celui qui ferme les yeux en t'écoutant. Ton complice à la batterie nous transporte bien au-delà des frontières et des rives. Une belle réussite.
salut SSi Masmoudi. Heureux de te lire.. on aura certainement le grand plaisir de t'entendre caresser ta basse avec les backstring au Fest. du Maghreb... au plaisir de t'y voir, yallah salamou alikoum
Hey Mohamed! Juste pour vous dire qu'il y a un oudist qui s'appelle Vartan Arslanyan qui est en ville et Weshida a organizer une petite soirée avec lui. Il a fait une tournée avec Bratch, et je pense que ca serait cool de lui voir! C'est mardi le 8 janvier à l'Archie à 21h. Bonne année! a+
je vois qu'on a plusieurs amis (es) en commun! oui...Montreal est petit... en tout cas, au plaisir de peut-être te rencontrer en personne un jour et jouer de la musique ensembles!
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