Pioneering Arabic music group
The pioneering music group Oxford Maqam comprises vocalists and musicians who are renowned experts of Egyptian music and song of the 19th and 20th centuries, known as the Nahda (Renaissance). First meeting over ten years ago, they now regularly tour both in the UK and internationally.
Their self-made album, described as ‘revolutionary’ by Songlines magazine, used recording techniques from over one hundred years ago to play key works of the Arabic Nahda repertoire. Oxford Maqam specialises in the rich tradition of muwashahat, qasidas (odes), and adwar, some of which have never been sung since the 1920s, and date as far back as the 9th century.
