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Live at KiMo Theatre - Yaman (fretless Telecaster) norumba 52 views Funk classic rock jam band piece on a fretless Telecaster, loosely based on raag Yaman. Live performance by world music jazz improv group Sama Duo ( guitar and drums) a...
Live at KiMo Theatre - Garden of Eden (fretless Telecaster) norumba 238 views twangy country and eastern piece on a fretless Telecaster, loosely based on Brindabani Sarang raga. Live performance by world music jazz improv group Sama Duo ( guitar ...
Live at KiMo Theatre - Jazz with Gretsch, part 2 norumba 140 views Live performance by world music jazz improv group Sama Duo ( guitar and drums) at the KiMo Albuquerque. A little closer to our normal mode of operation than Part 1, but...
Live at KiMo Theatre - Jazz with Gretsch, part 1 norumba 307 views Live performance by world music jazz improv group Sama Duo ( guitar and drums) at the KiMo Albuquerque. A jazzier approach than our previous clips, courtesy of the Gr...
Sama Duo - Untitled (oud and drums) norumba 85 views Sama Duo ( world music groove improv duet ) featuring oud and drums, from last week's "Jazz Deconstructed" performance at the Kosmos, Albuquerque. I've broken up the long o...
Sama Duo - Her Words Bring Me To Life Again (2011) (oud and drums) norumba 189 views Sama Duo ( world music groove improv duet ) featuring oud and drums, from last week's "Jazz Deconstructed" performance at the Kosmos, Albuquerque. I've broken up the long o...
Sama Duo - God's Mirrors (oud and drums) norumba 170 views Sama Duo ( world music groove improv duet ) featuring oud and drums, from last week's "Jazz Deconstructed" performance at the Kosmos, Albuquerque. I've broken up the long ...
Live at Kosmos - Groove Jazz Improv (Rafter Cam) norumba 121 views Sama Duo ( groove improv duet ) featuring guitar and drums, jam band style segment from last week's "Jazz Deconstructed" performance at the Kosmos, Albuquerque. This se...
Live at Kosmos - Fretless Tele (Rafter Cam) norumba 141 views Sama Duo ( groove improv duet ) featuring guitar and drums, from last week's "Jazz Deconstructed" performance at the Kosmos, Albuquerque. This excerpt features the fret...
Live at Kosmos - Electric Oud and Drums (Rafter Cam) norumba 520 views Sama Duo ( groove improv duet ) featuring oud and drums, from last week's "Jazz Deconstructed" performance at the Kosmos, Albuquerque. This segment is based around three...

About Norumba / Sama Duo

Sharing some film and video documentation of the various music projects of Mustafa Stefan Dill (sarod, fretless guitar, oud) and Jefferson Voorhees (tabla, naal, tar).

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Sama' Duo (Mustafa Stefan Dill, Jefferson Voorhees): transcultural improvisations

Burn your panpipe samples and scrub the dishes with your ambient synth pads: this is not your auntie's world music band.

Sama' Duo retains an improvisational focus, applying a deep core of both cutting-edge and ancient improvising methods within the musical traditions of India and the Middle East. The Duo reaches into the inner aspects of form and method from the established traditions, adds their previous experience as post-modern improvisors to the process and wraps it all with a rhythmically- driven, wide-ranging rock/funk ethos.

The group takes as its name a nuanced Arabic term that describes the spectrum of relationships between intense listening, spirituality, and music-making itself.

The Duo was chosen in 2006 to provide the music score for the independent film "Birth of a Pillow" by director Sharmy Pandey, from Kolkata, India. The film is a 47 minute feature with no dialogue, requiring a continuous music score that would amplify and emotionally detail the story to a very high degree.

The Duo's current instrumentation is fretless electric guitar and drum set, though they still use the sarod/tabla combination that marked their earlier phase, as well as the underutlilzed oud/gome combination.

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