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Institute du Monde Arabe
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Institut du Monde Arabe
The Hilali Epic - Sayyed al-Dowwi
$33.98
(cdRoots# 321019)
The Hilali Epic stems from the 11th century AD, and recounts the story of the Banu Hilal or “Sons of the Crescent Moon.” The Banu Hilal were driven from their homeland by famine, forced migrate towards the highlands in the center of Arabia. Sayyed Al Dowwi, the last poet to have memorized almost the epic cycle in its entirety (no mean feat, since it represents 500 hours of narration) performs in a dialect of Upper Egypt. This recording presents two episodes from the epic: how the hero's parents met, and remembering the triumphant return of Abu Zayd's children after a long period of exile in faraway lands.
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.
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.
The Ottoman Heritage - Kudsi Erguner Ensemble
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-ergunott)
The record label says: Classical Ottoman music gave a magnificent new impulse to the concept of the makam, or modes. Their resulting proliferation, the complexity of their range, and the development of suitably adapted instruments provided a wealth of musical material offering endless possibilities for expanding the repertoire. Kudsi Erguner and his ensemble set out to rediscover this rich national treasure. Here they perform some of the most interesting pieces from the fasil, suites of several works in the same mode, but with different rhythmic patterns: some pesh rev, instrumental preludes that open both fasil and whirling dervish ceremonies and some saz-semai that conclude the suites.
SYRIA. Songs from Aleppo. - Sabri Moudallal
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321001)
MAURITANIA. Songs of the Griots. Ensemble Moukhadrami - allow one week for shipment
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321004)
IRAQ. The Baghdad Lute. - Naseer Shamma
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321009)
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 Sulâmiyya
$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)
The Key to Grenada/Le clef de Grenade - Said Chraibi
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321038)
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)
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.
In the Mood for the Nouba (allow one week for shipment) - Beihdja Rahal
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321079)
The performance of the M'djanba and Mazmûm noubas presented here require warmth of the soul. The crystal-clear tones of Beihdja Rahal ring out in her radiant interpretation of these classical pieces from the Andalusian-Algerian repertoire. Accompanied by traditional instruments such as the târ (percussion), the darbûka or goblet drum, the lute, the violin, the kwîtra (stringed instrument) and the qânûn (zither), this genre demands total respect of its rules, its harmony, rhythms and melody. The recording as a whole offers the listener an intense emotional experience.
The Aleppo Suites (3 CD set) - Hassan Haffar
$56.99
(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.
Heyma - Abir Nasraoui
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321089)
Heyma, or "Wanderings," is an album by Tunisian artists who have spent their lives traveling between several cultures. Leïla El Mekki Skander Guetari and Abir Nasraoui take the listener on a journey through a colorful musical universe, created by more than a dozen musicians from East and West.
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.
Andalusian Music from Tangier - Cheikh Ahmed Zaitouni
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-zaitouni)
Cheikh Ahmed Zaitouni is a master musician in the al-Andalus style. Here he and his ensemble from Tangier perform one of the eleven vocal and instrumental suites of the Moroccan âla, the nuba 'Al-Hijaz al-kabîr'.
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)
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