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In times in which I am not worrying about my as of yet incomplete thesis paper, I spend time going through the different resources I have to learn more about music theory. Over the past couple of weeks, I have finally managed to set up a very small recording studio in my cardboard box-sized dorm […]

Yes, you read it right. I think that musicians are heavy travelers. Why you ask? Let me tell you about the last two trips I’ve had over the past month: My trip to Chichibu in Saitama Prefecture (around 2 hours outside of Tokyo), and my long-short trip between Narita International Airport and Bahrain International Airport.
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I just set up a myspace site of my own at http://www.myspace.com/hasanhujairi, where you can listen to samples of some of my music. Feel free to give the sample a listen and let me know what you think
I also wanted to thank Hashim at Mello Studio for […]

Well, the wonderful Kamilya Jubran had a concert in Bahrain on Monday, March 5th. I went nearly an hour and a half before the performance because I wanted good seats and didn’t want to risk it. I arrived (along with my parents) so early, that we got the best seats in the house - in […]

Since October of last year, I’ve been involved in a music project with a full-time musician to compose/record our own original music and also try to perform in some concerts. We were “successful” to an extent, until things got to the meltdown point.
In the weeks leading up to our most recent and final performance, he and I […]

Charbel Rouhana SINGS?! Since when?!
The first time I fell in love with the Oud was when I was in the 9th grade and I went to see Marcel Khalife and Charbel Rouhana’s monumental Oud Duo called “Jadal” with my best friend. The image I always had of Chabel Rouhana was that of “Revolutionary Instrumentalist” in his […]

A musician friend of mine in Egypt, wrote a simple entry (in Arabic) about my latest (and first) music project that I’ve just begun with a Spanish multi-instrumentalist! Check it out!
Otherwise, to listen to a sample of some improvisation, click here!
Thank you, Omar!

I was asked to attend a Shakuhachi performance. For those of you who don’t know much about the Shakuhachi, it is a traditional Japanese flute made from a single reed of Bamboo. The performer that evening was a young man, as old as me, performing on musical instruments he had made on his own. When […]

Scene 1:  Nightmare on the Night Before July 20th:
I am imprisoned in a world-wide police operation that takes all male youth of a “particular ethnic/religious background” who are being educated abroad in an attempt to rob the countries to which these young men belong of a class of educated youth. So, I find myself being told […]

Phew! Just ran into the dorm, from Kunitachi station, a little past midnight - in the rain. I had just come from Shinjuku Station, after transferring at the Odakyu Line. Last train at Shinjuku on weekends is a NIGHTMARE, for those who don’t know. People literally get pushed onto the train, squeezed in there like […]