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Banu Noor

About Me


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Issa Malluf was born in St. Petersburg , Florida . He moved to Albuquerque , New Mexico at an early age where he simultaneously took an interest in piano and percussion.
He joined the African music ensemble ‘Umoja' in 2001 where he played traditional African percussion, later that year he started working on his own compositions under the title ‘The Call To Power'. These works consisted mainly of software synthesizers and drum-machines. In 2002, he gained popularity with the independent label ‘Aristlaunch' where they released The Call To Power's debut album titled ‘Somewhere in the middle of nothing'. He went on to produce a second album ‘Tern Mi Awn' in 2005 which was marginally more successful then his previous works. In late 2005, ‘Umoja' disbanded and Issa found a new interest in traditional Arabic drumming.
With his new found passion for Arabic drumming, he went on to perform with the belly dance troupes Las Gitanas, Zahara Al-Jinan, and Pishkesh. He also worked soloists Leyla Najma, Amaya and Rozana Al-Jinan, and performed in such venues as the New Mexico body painting festival, Desert Fire (With Susu Pampanin), Shake N' Bake, Tribal Fest, 3 Sided Whole, and the Crestone Music Festival.
With a deeper understanding of his own musical roots, he worked on his self-titled world music project. In 2006, ‘Tea Time With The Infinite Darkness' was released, which was a mixture of world music and electronica.
In 2007 he simultaneously joined the musical ensemble Sadaqah (With Beth Beaver, Renaldo Baca, and Billy Woods) and ‘The Baghdad Ensemble' with oud virtuoso Rahim Al-Haj with whom he performs classical Iraqi and Arabic music, and the Slavic gypsy waltz band 'The Zoltan Orkestar'. He is currently working on his own album titled 'Displacing the Apple' which will be released in late 2008.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 07/11/2007
Band Website: http://issamalluf.iopnet.com
Band Members: Issa Malluf (Composer, Keyboards, Egyptian and Indian Tabla, Riqq, Daf, Frame Drum, Djembe, Guitar, Congas, Cajon, Accordion, Melodica)
Influences: Alan Parson Project, The Moody Blues, Aphex Twin, U-Ziq, Shpongle, Pat Metheny, Camel, Amon Tobin, Bjork, 4-Tet, Vast, Solace, Peter Gabriel, Autechre, Fairouz, Um Kaltoum, Sting,
Sounds Like: A melting pot of traditional world music and western theory with an underlining electronic atmosphere.
Record Label: None
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Beginners drum class! Starts tonight! (4-21) at 6:30!

Beginners Drum Class! Tonight! 6:30! Last chance to sign up! (Three open slots!) Call me at 688-8440
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:41:00 GMT

So.....

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Posted by on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:02:00 GMT

Scrapped!

I thought I had it finished. But um...Not quite. Displacing the Apple is going to be taking on a new shape - Very different from what was written before. A few of the previous songs will remain - (Fir...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:51:00 GMT

"Your online as expired."

Holy hell. I didn't know it could - But, it appears that eBay is the first to tell me.  Read below: ____ "Dear eBay Member,This is your official notification from eBay. Your online has expired.If...
Posted by on Sat, 03 May 2008 10:41:00 GMT

Rock, Paper, Scissors : Requiem

  Rock, Paper, Scissors 2: Requiem.  
Posted by on Thu, 01 May 2008 13:31:00 GMT

The Saturday Review

 The Saturday Review : In the Name of the King Or How I learned how to stop loving J.R.R Tolkien and accept this mildly turdolicous joke of a movie I would first like to start out by saying: W...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:21:00 GMT

Issa has found is soulmate.

Yes. He has searched long and far - And has been burned many a time - But this summer, Issa has finally found the one true love of his life.   She is sweet...short - And has loads of style! She i...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:55:00 GMT

Yet another musical venture!

It just keeps getting better! In mid 2007, I got invited to play with the Baghdad Ensemble (With Oud Virtuoso Rahim-Al Haj). That oppurtunity really pushed me to learn quite a bit, and Rahim ...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:06:00 GMT

The Pearl Fantasy

Yay! I just got contracted to compose music for the upcoming theatrical dance show ’The Pearl Fantasy’. This show looks like it is going to be quite amazing! Keep your eyes peeled for this...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:24:00 GMT

Gaw.

I am so sick right now I can barely even make it downstairs to get a cup of tea. This is the worst flu I have ever had. But I have good news. I just saved a ton of money on my car insurance by swit...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:13:00 GMT