I love this Shadia song, with the effortlessly and maybe unintentionally psychedelic keyboard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wnKLOGAQM0
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 12 January 2017 03:36 (seven years ago) link
I am not sure I've ever mentioned Mayada El Hennawy, but I will mention that she exists. Another singer who sings material similar to what Warda and Naget sang.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqXFMOZ17TQ
Still active:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWpkJC9sclU
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 12 January 2017 15:11 (seven years ago) link
Another singer who sings material similar to what Warda and Naget sang.
Or late Oum Kalthoum, for that matter.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 12 January 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
The problem is there is probably more than enough music in this particular style.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 12 January 2017 15:19 (seven years ago) link
The best song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU0-CMdkgjk
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 March 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
9 views. LMAO.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 March 2017 18:14 (seven years ago) link
The first time as guitar, the second time as farce.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 March 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
Is this her:
Samira Ghastin Karimona, better known by her stage name Samira Tewfik is a Lebanese singer who gained fame in the Arab world for her specializing in singing in the Bedouin dialect of Jordan. She has also acted in a number of Arab films.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 25 March 2017 22:15 (seven years ago) link
Yes. I hadn't know most of what's in that entry. I had no idea her father was Armenian. Thought both her parents were Bedouin. Maybe neither were? Check out that song, it really is great and upbeat.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 March 2017 23:02 (seven years ago) link
My real comments on the song are on the songs with cool clapping in them thread.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 March 2017 23:09 (seven years ago) link
That little bit of guitar just melts me. I want to live in the world of that guitar snippet forever.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 March 2017 23:12 (seven years ago) link
Posted earlier in this thread, but worth repsting--live footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFmw37eZV5E
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 26 March 2017 00:06 (seven years ago) link
well that has a few more than nine views. :)
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Sunday, 26 March 2017 02:46 (seven years ago) link
Yes, a lot of people seem to like that one.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 26 March 2017 02:58 (seven years ago) link
The evolution of Arabic Music in one medley! by Alaa Wardi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPvyl6MYxlg
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 March 2017 01:06 (seven years ago) link
Pretty good. Spends too much time after the classic era, but I would say that. I stop recognizing specific songs about halfway through (maybe a little past).
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 31 March 2017 04:14 (seven years ago) link
Also really heavy on the Farid.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 31 March 2017 04:16 (seven years ago) link
I don't think I give Sabah her do. Noticing a bunch of her albums on Spotify that I don't think I've ever heard.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 8 June 2017 04:52 (six years ago) link
Due!
But there is something to be said about her do as well.
Sorry, but I'm going to bed in eight minutes.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 8 June 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/find-a-grave-prod/photos/2014/329/139273070_1417046139.jpg
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 8 June 2017 04:54 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt0RJh3mC38
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 8 June 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
This album is very good. I've never heard it before and had no idea it existed. I wish there were a comprehensive guide to the releases of the major Arab recording artists, or the old school ones anyway. I know these people are prolific, but sometimes I'm startled to find whole batches of material I haven't seen before.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 8 June 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
The other singer on the album is Wadi el Safi.
Shadi Jamil apparently performing in Aleppo:
LIVE NOW from Syria's Aleppo: Massive concert held at the Citadel Theater to celebrate the defeat of terrorism & the return of normal life. pic.twitter.com/uwRjBHWN8w— Sarah Abdallah (@sahouraxo) July 25, 2017
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBGfSgOpH7E
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7kr6TiwMWI
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
Christian Lebanese singer Julia Boutros pays tribute to Hassan Nasrallah:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGK6KvbkujE
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 December 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
(Not news, but felt like posting it and this performance is a little less over-the-top than the one I saw previously.)
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 December 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKdz8gnY5v0
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 December 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
https://stepfeed.com/lebanese-fell-completely-in-love-with-julia-boutros-all-over-again-7552
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 December 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
this performance is a little less over-the-top than the one I saw previously
Also, the bouzouk solo at the beginning, though brief, is a nice touch.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
Notice the size of her audiences. I know about Arab music I don't necessarily talk about (and that does not otherwise get mentioned here). On the other hand, I am being honest when I say I don't really keep up with most of it.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
Speaking of not keeping up (and therefore not knowing stuff), yes, there is a much larger Arab indie scene becoming available to mostly internet- and Spotify-dependent western listeners like me than I remember being there not that long ago, but maybe I wasn't looking. Mostly realizing this after looking at the related artists for the most interesting Nadah El Shazly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvB83JBBnQ4
And check the Asmahan sample on this Psychaleppo track (for a moment I definitely recognized it without knowing what it was):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-6SQjdgdg4
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 18 December 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
Have not noticed the Psychaleppo mentioned anywhere at all. I'm not sure it splits the difference between traditional Arab music and electronic music in a way I find completely satisfying, but I haven't even heard it all yet. I posted something by them a long time ago (but if I mentioned them by name I must have misspelled it).
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 18 December 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH_MY9T-PQU
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 21 December 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
Sanpaku nominated this for our poll, and I have to admit I didn't know it existed, and in fact had lost track of what Mar-Khalife has been doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nwCbZfPxcY
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 22 December 2017 03:35 (six years ago) link
This is the Asmahan song extensively sampled in the Hello PsychAleppo song above:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV1pbIzcpB8
From what I gather (from interviews and articles here and there), he is drawing a parallel between his own existence as a Syrian in exile, or as a Syrian refugee.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 23 December 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
She was a Druze princess! I never get tired of bringing that up.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 23 December 2017 02:40 (six years ago) link
The results of Hello Aleppo's manipulation of the Asmahan sample, in Anqa, at times have a curious resemblance to the beginning of Circuit des Yeux's "Paper Bag," which I am just hearing for the first time (and about which, I found myself thinking: wait, I've heard this before):
https://circuitdesyeux.bandcamp.com/album/reaching-for-indigo
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 24 December 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
Please stop comparing Nadeh El Shazly to Bjork. El Shazly's vocal ornamentation is generally rooted in classical Arabic singing.
I still haven't done a very good job at all of describing her album. That inadequate label "experimental" definitely fits (inadequately). Electronics, collage, somewhat free form jazz. But sometimes perfectly familiar Arab rhythms, melodies, timbres. And generally her vocals are within that tradition.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 24 December 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
Please stop comparing Nadeh El Shazly to Bjork.
Reviewers.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 24 December 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
Maybe this is Morse (c)ode from the Zeitgeist.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 24 December 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
"Please stop comparing Nadeh El Shazly female singers to Bjork."
― Doran, Sunday, 24 December 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
May trigger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lOA1zqag24https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u9uMsWBmLo
― the which the mother Mary (_Rudipherous_), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 01:41 (six years ago) link
There was a new Mohammed Assaf album in 2017. Just discovered it. So far it sounds nothing like him and I am not impressed.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link
There's a track with Gente de Zona. Yes, a collaboration with a washed up Cubaton act. (Maybe they aren't washed up. I can't tell the difference when it comes to cubaton.)
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 01:01 (six years ago) link
It sounds slightly edgy for 2002.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 01:02 (six years ago) link
Was trying to whistle this, coming out of the work parking structure this morning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79bT7MbP8qs
I can completely relate to it while laughing at the same time.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 12 January 2018 01:01 (six years ago) link
Old school Arab mp3 (well, rar) blog:
http://lazyproduction-arabtunes.blogspot.com/
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link