Jammin Squirrel's Blog

First of all: the few (but invaluable) fellow readers of my blog might have been wondering if this blog has died a premature death. No, not at all, fortunately I can assure you, my friends, that it is not dead. This post can be taken as a factual proof, right? On a more serious note, [...]

After quite a while without anything new in this series (since I started to work full-time I have found it more difficult to have time to write on the blog, unfortunately), know here’s finally one more listening suggestion. In this series, I’ve already presented to you a great musician who plays the Oud (Rabi Abou [...]

Today’s chapter of this series is about a very eclectic and quite unique musician, his name is Rabih Abou Khalil. Born in Lebanon, but having moved to Germany in 1978 because of the civil war, he early started his music studies, becoming a virtuoso on his main instrument, the oud (string instrument having common origins [...]