Abdel Gadir Salim
Abdel Gadir Salim (* 1950, in Dilling, Sudan ) is a Sudanese musician.
Life
Abdel Gadir Salim biographical information on are sparse. He was born in the small town of Dilling in the Nuba Mountains ( about 130 kilometers south of El- Obeid ) in the Sudanese province of Kordofan. Although there had never been in his family a musician, he has taught himself at a young age to play on the Arabic oud oud at. Later he studied classical European and Arabic music at the Institute of Music and Drama in Khartoum, where the artist lives.
Abdel Gadir Salim is also a director of a primary school in Chad.
Work
Abdel Gadir Salim Abdel Aziz El Mubarak applies not only as one of the leading composers and doyen of Sudanese Oud music. Together with his band Merdoum All Stars he plays everywhere in the Arab world since the mid- 1980s in Europe. Merdoum refers to a traditional music and dance style from Kordofan, the Salim has made his work known in other parts of the world.
Salim is seen in his early work as a representative of a musical style that is called " Khartoum city song ," as a popular urban music. It is a mixture of traditional folklore with new musical elements, such as with strong influences from jazz. In the early 1970s, he focused on the traditional music of Kordofan and Darfur. For urban popular style the addition of western musical instruments like accordion or saxophone in his all- star cast is characteristic. At the same time operates Salim a musical bridge between Arabic and African music by using scales and motifs from the former and from the latter typical percussion styles in his pieces.
Salim has taken as north Sudanese and Muslim in 2005 with his All-Stars band together with the rapper Emmanuel Jal, a South Sudanese and Christians, as well as with its hip-hop crew The Reborn Warriors Album Ceasefire (English " truce "). This is considered a musical call for peace in Sudan. However, Salim is seen as apolitical musician who does not want to arouse the displeasure of the Islamic government of Sudan with its occasionally polemical texts.
However, he was injured in November 1994 when a knife attack of a fanatical Islamic primary school teacher. In this attack, the popular Sudanese singer Khogali Osman was killed. Background was being fired by the state media campaign against secular music.
Discography
- Sounds of Sudan Vol.1, Songs from Kordofan, World Circuit 1987
- Nujum al - Lail, stars of the night, Globe Style 1989
- The Merdoum Kings Play Songs of Love, World Circuit 1991
- Le blues de Khartoum, Harmonia mundi 1999
- Ceasefire ( with Emmanuel Jal ), Riverboat Records 2005