Arabic music (not elsewhere classified)

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.

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.

My real comments on the song are on the songs with cool clapping in them thread.

That little bit of guitar just melts me. I want to live in the world of that guitar snippet forever.

Posted earlier in this thread, but worth repsting--live footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFmw37eZV5E

well that has a few more than nine views. :)

Yes, a lot of people seem to like that one.

The evolution of Arabic Music in one medley! by Alaa Wardi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPvyl6MYxlg

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).

Also really heavy on the Farid.

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.

Due!

But there is something to be said about her do as well.

Sorry, but I'm going to bed in eight minutes.

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/find-a-grave-prod/photos/2014/329/139273070_1417046139.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt0RJh3mC38

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.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBGfSgOpH7E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7kr6TiwMWI

Christian Lebanese singer Julia Boutros pays tribute to Hassan Nasrallah:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGK6KvbkujE

(Not news, but felt like posting it and this performance is a little less over-the-top than the one I saw previously.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKdz8gnY5v0

https://stepfeed.com/lebanese-fell-completely-in-love-with-julia-boutros-all-over-again-7552

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.

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.

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

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).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH_MY9T-PQU

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

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.

She was a Druze princess! I never get tired of bringing that up.

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

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.

Please stop comparing Nadeh El Shazly to Bjork.

Reviewers.

Maybe this is Morse (c)ode from the Zeitgeist.

"Please stop comparing Nadeh El Shazly female singers to Bjork."

May trigger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lOA1zqag24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u9uMsWBmLo

There was a new Mohammed Assaf album in 2017. Just discovered it. So far it sounds nothing like him and I am not impressed.

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.)

It sounds slightly edgy for 2002.

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.

Old school Arab mp3 (well, rar) blog:

http://lazyproduction-arabtunes.blogspot.com/

That's great, thanks!

You're welcome. I bookmarked it a couple years back but have hardly looked at it (not sure why). I accidentally let Windows set my default for .rar's to Adobe Acrobat and now I can't make it let me set a sane default. (I swear this was all much easier a decade ago.)

If you've more of these links I'm def up for it. Iran suspiciously absent form the blog!

(Does this help with your file association problem?)

I'll look at that when I am back at my home PC.

I'm not sure if you're joking about Iran.

In the right pane there's a list of countries (and regions) he covers:

ALGERIA الجزائر
ARMENIA أرمينيا
EGYPT مصر
EURABIA أورابيا
IRAQ العراق
JORDAN الأردن
LEBANON لبنان
MOROCCO المغرب.
PALESTINE فلسطين
SAUDI ARABIA العربية السعودية
SYRIA سوريا
TUNISIA تونس
YEMEN

Was legit surprised Iran doesn't feature.

But Iran doesn't fall under the Arab category though, either linguistically or ethnically. They never became Arabized by conquest, that I know of. If so, it didn't last long. Turkey is not there either. Granted, he does throw in Armenia, but probably because they are an important minority in Syria and Lebanon.

(Well, they did mostly convert to Islam, so I guess that's an Arabization of sorts, but they've maintained a strongly distinct Persian culture.)