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- About Me:
- Jim Matus studied guitar and composition at Berklee College of Music and privately with Pat Metheny and John Scofield. Also plays Laouto , Laoutar and Saz. He is the creator of the world fusion bands Paranoise and Mawwal, which have won him critical praise internationally. He has worked with musicians Percy Jones, Alicia Svigals, Don Cherry, Anthony Jackson and Soft Machine's Hugh Hopper.
MAWWAL performs both original music and original arrangements of traditional Middle Eastern music in a spirited and beautiful trance-inducing acoustic ensemble. Inventive vocal arrangements in English and Arabic is supported by a laouto (Greek lute), violin, dumbeck, tablas, bass, and drums in what has been called a "new genre" by Progression Magazine.
The sound is thick and abundant, often stormy, impassioned and intense. Mawwal embodies the epitome of world fusion while still winning the hearts of any purist with their treatment of culture and tradition from East to West.
- Website:
- http://www.mawwalmusic.com
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