!['Maqam Constellation' at the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg](https://www.johnfarah.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-15-at-4.42.05-PM-470x140.png)
A video from my concert at the Elbphilharmonie, the new Philharmonic building in Hamburg. “Maqam Constellation” is a meditative soundscape from my album “Time Sketches”, released…
![Queen of the Night. 8.5"x11", 2014. by John Kameel Farah www.johnfarah.com](https://www.johnfarah.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Queen-of-the-Night-web-e1408308476578-470x140.jpg)
This Taqsim, or improvisation, from my album “Between Carthage and Rome”, was released in early 2015. It is set in Maqam Huzam, a scale/mode used in Middle-Eastern music,…
![The Atonal Maqam - live improvisation @ Musideum, Toronto](https://www.johnfarah.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/JohnFarah-finalSMALL1--470x140.jpg)
The Atonal Maqam is a certain style of improvisation I’ve developed over the years. I love it because it feels like coaxing the piano into…