Maqām Records, founded in 2024 by Amir ElSaffar, presents historical & contemporary music rooted in the Maqam tradition of Iraq & the Middle East.
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New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal
Amir ElSaffar
Released November 7, 2025
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Maqam Al-Iraq
Hamid Al-Saadi
Released July 18, 2025
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Inner Spaces
Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch & Amir ElSaffar
Released March 21, 2025
Press
Amir ElSaffar New Quartet
"The acclaimed trumpeter has found a way to make Iraqi maqam and Western jazz speak the same language."
“A contemporary jazz masterpiece...this is an album you'll want to listen to again and again… Great music, faultlessly executed.”
★★★★1⁄2 Editor’s Choice
–Kevin Whitlock, Jazzwise Magazine
“A drone-like, hypnotic...evolving music for an ever-expanding world community.”
★★★★
–Gary Fukushima, Downbeat Magazine
Hamid Al-Saadi Maqam Al-Iraq
"This album is an invitation to the spiritual, hypnotic, and soulful musical universe of the Iraqi maqams, sung in both sacred and secular contexts."
“His broad vibrato and heartrending delivery emphasize the centrality of deep emotion to the maqām form; his command of the many-layered soundscape, it seems, comes not only from technical mastery of the styles he sings but also from an unquantifiable personal connection.”
“Iraqi vocalist Hamid al-Saadi’s first record of traditional maqam music in over 25 years, Maqam Al-Iraq (Maqam Records), is a delight.”