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Currently I'm stuck on the slow crawl of the title track, with its violin overture leading into tuba and saxophone, guided by the dumbek, which culminates with a surprising guitar or could be dobro solo.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Four Albums to Find in 2011 Derek Beres 2010
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Currently I'm stuck on the slow crawl of the title track, with its violin overture leading into tuba and saxophone, guided by the dumbek, which culminates with a surprising guitar or could be dobro solo.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Four Albums to Find in 2011 Derek Beres 2010
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Currently I'm stuck on the slow crawl of the title track, with its violin overture leading into tuba and saxophone, guided by the dumbek, which culminates with a surprising guitar or could be dobro solo.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Four Albums to Find in 2011 Derek Beres 2010
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Currently I'm stuck on the slow crawl of the title track, with its violin overture leading into tuba and saxophone, guided by the dumbek, which culminates with a surprising guitar or could be dobro solo.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Four Albums to Find in 2011 Derek Beres 2010
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Her partners in crime include her husband Liron Peled, originally from the Golan Heights, on guitar and drums; Daphna Mor on recorders and nai; Yotam Beery, another Israeli native, on bass; and Rami El-Aasser on riq and bass dumbek.
Raquy and the Cavemen, Jordan (Meef Records, 2005) smg58 2006
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Her partners in crime include her husband Liron Peled, originally from the Golan Heights, on guitar and drums; Daphna Mor on recorders and nai; Yotam Beery, another Israeli native, on bass; and Rami El-Aasser on riq and bass dumbek.
Archive 2006-05-01 smg58 2006
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Ian Dogole udu, mbira, hang, dumbek & talking drum
Dove's Eye View: 2004
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Ry Cooder's son plays dumbek, a Middle Eastern drum, on the album listed below.
A Guide to Classical Indian/Jazz Fusion by Allen Alley Cat Lutins 1994
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And four of the visiting Northerners, two fiddler girls looking like a matched set, one with short curly hair, the other a blonde; off in the back, a serious dark-haired woman concentrating on an intricate rhythm on a dumbek, and that blond bearded fellow playing the bouzouki.
Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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He also studies the performance methods of ethnic instruments, such as the dumbek (an Arabian hand drum), although he admits, "I cannot play like my Arabic teacher."
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