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Institut du Monde Arabe

Rhapsody for Lute - Yousra Dhahbi
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-dhabi)
Yousra Dhabi is a lute player from Tunisia and represents the first generation of solo women lutenists in the Arab world.

MOROCCO. Trance Ritual. The Aissawa of Fes - The Aissawa of Fes
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321011)

EGYPT. Coptic Liturgies. - Ensemble David, Georges Kirollos
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321022)

Sufi Chants from Cairo. La Confrerie Chadhiliyya. Cheikh M.Al-Halbawi - Cheikh M.Al-Halbawi
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321023)

TUNISIA. Sufi Songs from Tunis. , Cheikh Abderrahman ben Mahmoud - La Sulāmiyya
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321025)

SUDAN. Khartoum Blues. Abdel Gadir Salim, vocals and ud - Abdel Gadir Salim
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321027)

YEMEN. Le Chant de Sanaa - Sanaan Singing. - H. al-Ajami, A. Ushaysh
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321029)

Sacred Songs from the Sahara - Ahallil De Gourara
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima-321034)

Sacred Songs From Nubia And Kordofan - Ensembles Al-Mahi and al-Bura'i
$17.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321039)
Two respected ensembles perform 'madih' (religous songs of praise) from Sudan.

Taghlaghalt or Echo of the Atlas - Rayssa Fatima Tabaamrant
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321044)
The Berber word rwais refers both to itinerant Chleuh singers and to the musical tradition of southern Morocco which they help to perpetuate. The rwais travel from town to town, dancing and singing the amarg, a form of oral poetry rooted in everyday existence and concerned with matters of life, death, nature and love, as well as politics and society's ills. Musical accompaniment is provided by a single-stringed fiddle (rebab), lutes, and percussion. Tabaamrant is the first woman to have founded her own troupe of rwais.

Les Imazighen - Songs from the Middle-Atlas - M.Rouicha
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321048)

The Art of Mawwal - Mohamed Bajeddoub, Abderrahim Souiri
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321072)
This album was recorded live at a concert originally conceived as a dialogue between two major Moroccan singers in the form of mawwal, vocal improvisation based on classical poetry. Vocalists Mohamed Bajeddoub and Abderrahim Souiri give outstanding solo and duo performances, based on excerpts from some of the most beautiful Arab poems on the theme of courtly and mystical love.

The Aleppo Suites (3 CD set) - Hassan Haffar
$59.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321082)
This three CD set of suites consist of various poems in free form that are set to music and sung. Each suite has its own flavor. Interpretation varies according to the different schools and singers, who evoke three separate aspects of existence in love poems, bacchic songs and poems about nature. These may be used alternately, but they all express a single emotion: yearning for the beloved. Haffar's musical and vocal skills blend introspection and sensuality and these three albums confirm him to be a master of the genre.

Sonates orientales - Wassim Soubra
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321086)
Sonates orientales is an album of instrumental music performed by Lebanese pianist and composer Wassim Soubra. Is it classical music? Jazz? World music? No matter what, it deserves further investigation, for Soubra writes using the grammar of classical music (harmonies, counterpoint) combined with the sounds of his childhood, and the result is a western composition that tells an eastern, Lebanese story.

The Malhun in Marrakech - Ensemble Amenzou
$19.99
(cdRoots# ima-321003)

In the kingdom of the Lyre - Osman, Gubara and Co
$34.99
(cdRoots# ima-321037)

The Aden Song - Mohammed Murshid Naji,Khalil Mohammed Khalil
$17.99
(cdRoots# hm-aden)
In the first half of the 20th century,the Yemeni port of Aden was a tremendous melting pot of cultures and influences.It was the meeting point of Arabic,African and Indian civilizations.This contributed to the relatively recent emergence of a special musical style,The Aden song ,a musical emblem of this unique cultural ferment.The style is essentially urban,i.e.singing with lute and percussion accompaniment.This record presents the Aden song from its earliest beginnings to its maturity, from 1948 right up to the present day.

Treasures of Algerian Music (2 CD set) - Various Artists
$35.99
(cdRoots# hm-algeriantreas)

The Call of the Oases - Compagnies Jellouli, Gdih, Meskaoui, El Hashemi Nhass, El Hamri
$17.99
(cdRoots# hm-calloases)
Music from the Tafilalet oasis in the Sahara desert. The disc features four musical groups from Tafilalet who draw their inspiration from both the tradition and the modern world.

The Sufi Spirit, the Spirit of Love - Nassima
$18.98
(cdRoots# hm-nassima)

The Sawt of Kuwait - Ensemble Al-Umayri
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-sawtkuwait)
Kuwait has forged the urban musical genre known as sawt out to the different cultural and ethnic mixtures there. Its influence has spread as far as the rest of the Gulf and the Indian ocean. The modernisation of the Kuwaiti sawt is forever linked to the name of Abdallah al-Faraj, a poet, composer and singer, and the source of several titles on this album.