Omar Metioui (Arabic: عمر المتيوي) (born 1962) is a Moroccan classical musician. Metioui was born in

Tangier Tangier ( ; , , ) is a city in northwestern Morocco, on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The city is the capital city, capital of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, as well as the Tangier-Assilah Prefecture of Moroc ...

and originally trained as a pharmacist, then concentrated on performance of the

oud The oud ( ; , ) is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have ...

(Arabic: عود ʿūd), or Arabic lute, as well as performance as a vocalist. He has recorded with his own Ensemble Omar Metioui, and is cofounder in 1994 with Spanish musicologist, flautist and architect

Eduardo Paniagua Eduardo Paniagua (born 1952 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish architect and musician, specializing in medieval Spanish music. Between 1966 and 1983, he was a member of the group Atrium Musicae de Madrid, led by his older brother Gregorio, playing wi ...

of the group Ibn Báya Ensemble, dedicated to the recovery of medieval Andalusian music.Biography in booklet to Al Ála Al-Andalusiyya Pneuma He also founded the group Al Ála Al-Andalusiyya ( الالـــة الانــدلـســيــة ) for performance of

Andalusi nubah Andalusī nūbah (نوبة أندلسيّة), also transliterated nūba, nūbā, or nouba (pl. nūbāt), or in its classical Arabic form, nawba, nawbah, or nōbah, is a music genre found in the North African Maghrib states of Morocco, Algeria, Tu ...

(نوبة أندلسيّة) and

Arabo-Andalusian music Andalusi classical music (; ), also called Andalusi music or Arab-Andalusian music, is a genre of music originally developed in al-Andalus by the Muslim population of the region and the Moors. It then spread and influenced many different styles ...

Selected discography

* PN 150 Al Andalus – Al ala Al-Andalusiya Metioui * PN 200 Al Andalus – Misticismo - Musica Sufi Andalusi Metioui * PN 250 Al Andalus – Núba Al-Istihlal Metioui (was Sony) * PN 360 Al Andalus –

Ibn 'Arabi Ibn Arabi (July 1165–November 1240) was an Andalusian Sunni scholar, Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher who was extremely influential within Islamic thought. Out of the 850 works attributed to him, some 700 are authentic, while over 400 ar ...

: El intérprete de los deseos (Arabic lyrics) Ens Ibn Bàya * PN 430 Al Andalus – La Fuente del Amor Secreto El Laúd en la Música Andalusí Metioui * PN 530 Al Andalus – ritual Sufi-Andalusi Al-Shushtarí (1212–1269) Metioui (Sony) * PN 630 Al Andalus – Nuba Al-Maya (Arabic lyrics) Metioui * PN 640 Al Andalus – Nuba rasd d-dayl. Cantos de la Noche (Arabic lyrics) Sony Metioui * PN 650 Al Andalus – Sufies de Al-Andalus Metioui * PN --- Al Andalus – Canto Andalusí Ibn Sahl de Sevilla 1212-1251 Metioui (Sony not yet rereleased PN)

References

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