Darbukha Masterclass with Hossam Ramzy
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12:00 AM
Location: St Marks Church
Myddleton Square, Angel, London
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Darbukha Masterclass with Hossam Ramzy
Egypt's Ambassador of Rhytm & the World's Leading Name in Egyptian
Dance Music
Beginner/Improver
Organised by www.caravansary.org
Sun 20 Aug - 12 - 6pm - St Marks Church, Myddelton Square
Admission: £45 (£25 conc.) Advance booking essential, payment via
check to Caravansary Project or cash on the day. Please email
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Hossam Ramzy was born in Cairo, Egypt. His musical career began early,
when at the age of three he was given his first drum, an Egyptian
Tabla.....
Hossam's passion and huge talent for percussion was noted by his
family, many of whom were themselves involved in the arts. Hossam was
encouraged to master his craft and studied under leading Cairo music
teachers.
A move to Saudi Arabia led him to joining with many Bedouin tribes
which gave the young Hossam a rich insight into the cultural origins of
Middle Eastern music and became the inspiration for many of his later
rhythmic directions. In the mid 1970's Hossam came to England, and
enjoyed great success as a Jazz drummer working with many respected
Jazz musicians like Andy Sheperd and Geoff Williams. But as he began
looking for new dimensions of percussive sounds, he found himself
turning full circle back to his first love, the Egyptian Drums, and the
thrilling dance rhythms of the Middle East. Hossam then encorporated
all his rhythmic experience into creating a new sound that is heard on
hundreds of the world leading albums recorded today.
The club dance scene of 2001 was taken by a storm with Hossam's No# 1
hit EDONY that has topped the dance charts worldwide.
The distinctive sound of his Arabian & North African string
arrangements, his percussion and exciting rhythms on his albums caught
the imagination of Peter Gabriel and Hossam was invited to perform on
PASSION and later US, and has just completed the working on Peter's new
unreleased album. Hossam has gone on to work with many top musicians
including Joan Armatrading & Mary Wilson.
Hossam is known world wide for creating string arrangements and
percussion and produced many songs for the world's leading artists such
as:
Yesim Salkim, Celick Erici, Cheb Khaled, Tarkan, Rachid Taha, Faudel,
The Gypsy Kings and the list just goes on.
In 1994 Robert Plant and Jimmy Page (ex-Led Zeppelin) invited Hossam to
bring together a band of Arabian musicians and work on their reunion
album 'No Quarter - Unledded' for which he was rewarded a GOLD thena
PLATINUM discs. This led to Hossam joining Page & Plant on their
historic reunion 1995/96 world tour.
During this historic tour, the following headline appeared
"Hossam Ramzy, The fuel behind the Robert Plant & Jimmy Page's Unledded
World Tour."
© The Chicago Times
In November 2001 at the 25th Anniversary of the ARC Music record
company, with whom Hossam has released 18 Albums in his own name for
the Egyptian dance, he was awarded a PLATINUM disc for being their top
selling artist, over 200.000 record sales.
Hossam built his own state of the art recording environment DRUMZY
STUDIO, in which he has the latest in recording technolgy mixed in with
old;and unique sounds of the best names in recording equipment. With
all this available to his finger tips, he can now create many new
sounds of the old traditional grooves and Arabian & North African
Samples & Loops of which he has no less than 80.000, all in perfect
BPM, and ready to use. To date Hossam has recorded and released 4 top
selling albums in Drumzy Studio.
There is more on Hossam Ramzy at www.hossamramzy.com