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The oud tag features the distinctive sound of the Middle Eastern lute, a pear-shaped stringed instrument central to Arabic, Turkish, and Persian musical traditions. Its warm, resonant tones and fretless neck allow for microtonal melodies and expressive ornamentation that evoke ancient cultural heritage. Music tagged with oud ranges from traditional solo performances to contemporary fusion blending jazz, classical, and world music elements.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
85		1958	Ahmed Abdul-Malik	Jazz Sahara	oud
29		1964	Hamza El Din	African Tranquility	african lute oud
70		1965	Hamza El Din	Al Oud	arabic oud
74		1971	Munir Bashir	L'art du'ûd	oud
98		1978	Hamza El Din	Eclipse	oud	ethnic # 55
86		1991	Anouar Brahem	Barzakh	jazz arabic	arabic # 76
62		1991-04	Anouar Brahem	Madar	africa jazz oud tunisia	tunisia # 79
94		1991-04	Anouar Brahem	Astrakan Café	africa jazz maghreb north africa oud tunisia	africa # 58 tunisia # 99 maghreb # 100 north africa # 100
66		1992	Simon Shaheen	Turath	arabic	arabic # 15
76		1992	Anouar Brahem	Conte De L'Incroyable Amour	jazz world oriental	world # 43 oriental # 98
73		1992	Simon Shaheen	Blue Flame	arabic oud world
9		1992-08	Jan Garbarek, Anouar Brahem, Shaukat Hussain	Madar
89		1992-11-03	Brian Keane & Omar Faruk Tekbilek	Beyond The Sky	ambient ethereal oud sufi world world fusion	world fusion # 53 sufi # 85
30		1994	Rabih Abou-Khalil	Sultan's Picnic	jazz oud
60		1995	Udi Hrant	The Early Recordings	oud
39		1995	Udi Hrant	Udi Hrant - The Early Recordings, Vol. 2
82		1995-01	Anouar Brahem	Thimar	arabic jazz	arabic # 63 tunisia # 86
10		1996	Marko Melkon	Marko Melkon	oud
61		1997	Yair Dalal	Samar	arabic instrumental oud
69		1998	Orak Naa Naa	Stranger In The Home Country	oud
83		1998	Rabih Abou-Khalil	Yara	jazz oud
31		1998-01-07	Necati Çelik	Yasemin	oud
80		1998-11-10	Anouar Brahem, John Surman, Dave Holland	Thimar
22		1999	Omar Metioui	Ritual Sufi-Andalusi, Al-Shushtari		spanish guitar # 41
84		2000	Simon Shaheen & Qantara	Blue Flame	arabic oud traditional	traditional # 78
93		2000	Anouar Brahem Trio	Astrakan Café	africa jazz maghreb north africa oud tunisia	africa # 57 tunisia # 98 maghreb # 99 north africa # 99
34		2000-02-22	Thierry "titi" Robin	Un ciel de cuivre	french oud
78		2002	Anouar Brahem	Conte de l'Incroyable	jazz world oriental	world # 46 oriental # 99
79		2002	Yurdal Tokcan	Passion	acoustic folk oud traditional turkey turkish	traditional # 65 turkey # 91
52		2002	Omar Metioui	La Fuente del Amor Secreto	arabic oud
91		2002-08-27	Anouar Brahem	Le Pas Du Chat Noir	jazz arabic	arabic # 67
41		2003	Atash	Republic Of Love	arabic ethnic indian oud sitar tabla traditional world fusion	sitar # 30 tabla # 65
40		2003	George Michel	Melodies of the Oud	oud
75		2003-05-13	Anouar Brahem	Vague	oud
26		2004	Haytham Safia	U'D	arabic instrumental oud
67		2004	Majid Bekkas	Mogador	oud
21		2004-03	Thierry "titi" Robin	Alezane	flamenco french gypsy oud
77		2004-06	Yurdal Tokcan	Inner Soul	oud turkish
35		2004-10-25	Luthomania	Itinérances	acoustic china lute morocco oud	china # 10 lute # 15 morocco # 35
28		2005	Ahmed Mukhtar	Rhythms of Baghdad	arabic instrumental oud
56		2005-05-01	Naseer Shamma	Maqamat Ziryab	arabic instrumental oud
5		2006	Mizna	Mizna	acoustic ethnic instrumental international oud tabla traditional tribal world	international # 12 tabla # 37
44		2006	Amos Hoffman	Na'ama	arabic improvisation instrumental oud	improvisation # 14
71		2006	Rahim AlHaj	When the Soul Is Settled: Music of Iraq	arabic improvisation instrumental oud	improvisation # 65
3		2006	Ziskakan	Banjara	folk oud
81		2006	Anouar Brahem	Le Voyage De Sahar	jazz
24		2007	Center Of The Universe	Simulacra	balkan bhangra noise oud
33		2007	Haig Yazdjian	Amalur	folk oud
90		2007	Dhafer Youssef & Wolfgang Muthspiel	Glow	oud
72		2007-10-23	La Mar Enfortuna	Convivencia	jewish klezmer oud	klezmer # 16 jewish # 63
88		2007-10-29	Le Trio Joubran	Majâz	arabic	wood and string # 60 arabic # 86
55		2008	Nizar Rohana	Sard 'Rereleased'	arabic instrumental oud
96		2008-04-28	Le Trio Joubran	Randana	oud world
50		2008-06-11	Kara Nomadica	Kara Nomadica	drum and bass oud percussion	percussion # 22
15		2009	Angelika Niescier	Sublim III	oud
47		2009	Speed Caravan	Kalashnik Love (Special Edition)	oud world fusion
100		2009-09-25	Anouar Brahem	The Astounding Eyes Of Rita	oud
46		2011	Amir ElSaffar	Two Rivers	new thing oud	new thing # 21
25		2011	Marcel Khalife	Caress/Mouda'aba	arabic oud
19		2011-02-25	Joachim Kühn, Majid Bekkas, Ramon Lopez	Chalaba		tabla # 52
95		2011-03-11	Le Trio Joubran	As Fâr	folk oud arabic instrumental world	arabic # 8 traditional # 22
51		2011-06-30	Secret Archives of the Vatican	Barbary Lion	bass breakbeat drumstep dubstep electronic ethnic fusion oud world fusion	drumstep # 23
65		2012-06-11	Omar Bashir	Taqâsîm (Luth arabe, Arab Lute)
68		2013-06-06	Faran Ensemble	FARAN	acoustic instrumental international oud traditional world	traditional # 32 international # 72
18		2013-10-28	Dhafer Youssef	Odem	oud
92		2014-11-28	Anouar Brahem	Souvenance	jazz modern jazz oud	modern jazz # 93
99		2014-11-28	Anouar Brahem	Astrakan Cafe	oud	arabic # 26
27		2015-07	Amir ElSaffar	Crisis	new thing oud
13		2017	Monk Party	Oneness with the Infinite	oud tabla	tabla # 43
23		2017-02-17	Basel Zayed	Hada Leil	instrumental oud
6		2020-01-31	Majid Bekkas	Magic Spirit Quartet (with Goran Kajfeš, Jesper Nordenström & Stefan Pasborg)
7			Redrick Sultan	Trolling for Answers	canada dance flute funk jam jazz oud rock vancouver	vancouver # 55
57			Abdolvahab Shahidi	The Masters of Persian Traditional Music, Oud (Instrumental)		improvisation # 34
58			Khamis El Fino Ali	Music for the Classical Oud	arabic improvisation instrumental oud	improvisation # 35
63			Shahram Gholami	Persian Oud, Dirine Delkhah		persian # 2 traditional # 8 iranian # 36 iran # 46
64			Mustafa Kandirali & Ensemble	Caz Roman	oud traditional turkish	traditional # 14
87			Omid Shabani	Blooming in the Valley	classical drum instrumental iran iranian oud persian	persian # 86 iranian # 91 iran # 92 drum # 98
97			Le Trio Joubran	Majaz	oud	trio # 49
2			Shwan Tavakkol	Parallax View(Chashm-e Morakkab)-Persian Fusion Music	classical composer instrumental iran iranian oud persian world
4			Abdolvahab Shahidi	Raze Oud	improvisation instrumental oud
8			Ali Jihad Racy/Simon Shaheen	Taqasim: The Art of Improvisation in Arabic Music	arabic improvisation instrumental oud
11			Amer Ammouri	Eastern Strings - The Art of Arabian Oud Solos	oud
12			Hooman Shirali	Tensioned in the Sound	classical drum instrumental iran iranian oud percussion persian traditional world
14			Fatemeh Dehghani	The Spirit Afar	classical composer instrumental iranian oud percussion persian traditional
17			Karim Mahmoud	Egyptian Oud and vocal	oud
20			Salh Arram	Classical Instrumental Music of the Middle East	arabic instrumental oud traditional world
32			Haig Yazdjian / Antonis Apergis	The Greek Folk Instruments: Outi	lute oud world
36			Hossein Behroozi-Nia & Pejman Hadadi	Midnight Sun	instrumental oud persian
37			Mamdoh El Gibaley	Takasim Oud 2	oud
38			Mamdoh El Gibaley	Takasim Oud 1	oud
42			Negâr Boubân	Through	classical instrumental iran iranian oud persian traditional world
43			Oud Music	Oud from Kohestan	instrumental oud
48			RICH & CONNIE SHELENGIAN	Oud Vibrations	oud
49			Negâr Boubân	On Fire	classical farsi instrumental iran iranian oud persian traditional world
53			Khaled Ben Yahia	Wissal	oud
54			Argile feat. Abdel Illah Hajim	Bardentreffen 2005	africa african oud world
1			Rahim Alhaj, Oud & Sadaga Quartet	Friendship
16			mamdouh elgebaly	Takasim Oud, Vol. 2
45			Nguyen Le duos with Paolo Fresu, Dhafer Youssef	Homescape
59			Mohammed Saleh Abd Al-Saheb Lelo	QATAR The Music of Islam, Vol. 4: Music of the Arabian Peninsula

Related genres

• instrumental
• arabic
• world
• traditional
• jazz
• acoustic
• folk
• persian
• improvisation
• classical