― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Yousra Dhahbi: Rhapsody for Lute [Female oudist--and there aren't many around, or at least not many who make it onto a CD--from Tunisia.]Ensemble Al-Umayri: The Sawt of KuwaitEnsemble Muhammad Faris: The Sawt of BahrainVarious: Treasures of Algerian Music [2 CDs worth of older, archival, material.]
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Friday, 30 July 2004 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link
Mohamed Ali Ensemble: Al Hawanem also looks good.
(These are listed on the new releases section at www.rashid.com.)
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I think it's interesting that while falsetto is traditionally frowned upon in Egyptian, and I think Lebanese and Syrian music, it seems pretty common in music from the Gulf states. At the very least, I think I've heard a couple Kuwaiti stars sing in falsetto.
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link
It might not even be really good. There's some pretty cheesy stuff going on, but there's still something really great about it.
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
At the very least, they seem to be more about a musique concrete/cut-up approach than simply a presentation of recordings of Arabic music (as though they are simply using Arabic music as raw material).
But then again, maybe I will like them. Maybe they really are making a statement about the aural world that exists in the Arab world. (Call to prayer, Qur'anic recitation, clash of everything else music?)
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 6 November 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS, Saturday, 6 November 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
The CD itself is a totally unprofessional piece of work, with two or three more songs than there are tracks (and I mean songs that are completely unrelated to what came before on the same track). Plus, sometimes there will be a pause after one song and then another one will begin, then the track will end, then that song will resume with the next track. It's made in Houston, TX.
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Friday, 11 February 2005 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Friday, 18 February 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 24 February 2005 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 24 February 2005 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 24 February 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 24 February 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Accompanied Nazem al-Gazali in Iraq. That's about as prestigious as you can get for that time and place.
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 2 April 2005 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS, Thursday, 14 April 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.negrophonic.com/words/
"saturday, the Arabesk throwdown in Bruxelles. I´ll DJ with an eastward lean and do a brief collabo with Chronomad (who´ll play Persian percussion thru guitar amps over my beats). My Istanbul point man Serhat Köksal aka 2/5 BZ is gonna blast us with a live audio-visual set. No turistik - No egzotik! Turkish lo-fi punk sampler saz psychedelia never sounded/looked so good!"
― steve-k, Friday, 22 April 2005 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― steve-k, Friday, 22 April 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― steve-k, Friday, 22 April 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Friday, 29 April 2005 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.shahrokhmusic.com/oldmusic.htm
there are samples here. his album "ghoroob" ("dusk") is particularly amazing for the classic psychedelic instrumentation. his "dance mix" album has fantastic irangeles beats.
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 29 April 2005 03:14 (eighteen years ago) link
bombastic = defining characteristic of persian music!
OTOH if some of it sounds saccharine, i'd venture that it's because of cultural distance. same way asian music might sound harsh to westernized ears.
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 29 April 2005 03:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 29 April 2005 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Friday, 29 April 2005 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― steve-k, Friday, 29 April 2005 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Friday, 29 April 2005 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link
On the other hand, I've been extremely happen with some of the trad. pop Syrian things I've been buying, and I really like that (mostly solo) kanun CD by Abrahama Salman, and I definitely am going to look into a couple recent Gulfen releases. (See above.)
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/askthegirl/lst?.dir=/Party+from+Damascus!
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 8 May 2005 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 8 May 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 8 May 2005 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 8 May 2005 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― volly halance, Sunday, 8 May 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve K (Steve K), Sunday, 8 May 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Saturday, 11 June 2005 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Saturday, 11 June 2005 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vornado, Saturday, 11 June 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link