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Institut du Monde Arabe

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.

Musiqie andalouse de Fes - Abdelkrim Rais
$34.99
(cdRoots# ima-321002)

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)

Les Imazighen - Songs from the Middle-Atlas - 2 CDs - M.Rouicha
$35.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321048)

Courtly Love. Adib al-Dayikh, - Ensemble al-Kindi
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321013)

MOROCCO. El Hadj Houcine Toulali, vocals, lute. The Malhûn of Meknès - El Hadj Houcine Toulali
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321005)

The Sufi Spirit, the Spirit of Love - Nassima
$18.98
(cdRoots# hm-nassima)
Arab-Andalusian artist Nassima has gathered works of the great Sufi masters, from lbn Arabî to the emir Adb el-Kader. She revisits almost a millennium of tasawwuf mysticism using newly composed music that dwells on the originals' quest for universal peace. These recordings, were made at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, recorded live in concert.

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

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.

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'.

Nuba ghrib: Andalusian Music from Algiers - Omar Benamara
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima-321069)
The record label says: 'Although Omar Benamara comes from Algiers’ musical tradition, he presently sings at the Paris National Opera. His long experience and practice of classical Western music have given him a different perception of traditional music. This has allowed him to make a remarkable connection to his cultural origins as an interpreter of the great nubas (cantatas) from the Algiers School of the Arab-Andalusian repertoire. The nuba presented here is an example of this. Its very name (ghrib) can mean at the same time strangeness, exile and nostalgia. Like a haunting complaint, the theme of the ghrib comes again and again as a motif in the tushia (the nuba overture) and reappears several times as a reminiscence in the ’saddar,' the second movement of the cantata. Noble and re?ned, this music shines with a dark beauty and is imbued with the passion and pain of the poet.'

Al-Samaa: Ecstatic spiritual audition - Ihsan Rmiki
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321075)
The recording notes say: The samaa, or spiritual concert, is part of the Sufi tradition, and involves listening to music and song in modes of Andalusian origin in order to reach spiritual awakening and contact with the divine, a trance-like state known as the wajd. The practice takes place in the refined atmosphere of the zawiyas. Panegyrics are sung either solo or in chorus with an instrumental accompaniment of varying importance; the performance is conducted by a shaykh whose role is twofold: to lead the ritual and the spiritual guide of the devotees. Ishan Rmiki, one of the rare female vocalists to perform samaa, transports her audience in a mood of spiritual fervor still cultivated in modern-day urban Morocco. The result is a musical account of this profound spiritual journey that all those who aspire to union with God will appreciate.

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.

L'Appel Des Oasis - The Call of the Oases - Compagnies Jellouli, Gdih, Meskaoui, El Hashemi Nhass, El Hamri
$18.99
(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 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.

The Sawt of Bahrain - Ensemble Muhammad Faris
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-sawtbahrain)
The sawt (literally 'voice' in Arabic), the most highly esteemed vocal art in countries round the Gulf, has it sources in the vast repertory of classical and dialectical poetry and the poetic and musical cultures that have left their mark in the area. In the wake of the great upheaval of tradition that took place in the thirties, Muhammad bin Faris, a remarkable writer and composer of the sawt, played a large and vigorous role in the renewal of the genre, founding Bahrain’s first school of sawt.

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.

Courtly Love - Adib al-Dayikh, Ensemble al-Kindi
$18.98
(cdRoots# 321013)
Adib al-Dayikh comes from a great family of mystics and reciters of the Koran. He is famous for his communicative style, rich with emotion. Dayik’s success is founded upon his three octave voice range (featuring a particularly remarkable high register), his careful selection of poetry and most importantly, the feeling of musical ecstasy (tarab) that he and his musicians evoke. Here, Dayikh performs songs sung since the Middle Ages by the mystical Muslim brotherhoods during their collective rituals of invocation. Dayikh also illustrates the universal nature of love too, singing of erotic love, expressed in sometimes risqué images.

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

EGYPT. Simsimiyya of Port Saïd. - Ensemble Al-Tanburah
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321026)

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

YEMEN. L'Heure de Salomon - The Hour of Solomon. (lute and vocals) - Mohammad al-Harithi
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321032)

MOROCCO. The Key to Granada. Said Chraibi - (Allow 2 weeks for delivery)
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321038)

MAURITANIA. Songs of the Griots. Ensemble Moukhadrami - allow one week for shipment
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321004)

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

MOROCCO. Sacred Drums from Marrakesh. La Daqqa - allow one week for shipment
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321028)

Andalusian Music from Algiers - allow one week for shipment
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321046)

SYRIA. Songs from Aleppo. - Sabri Moudallal
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321001)

ALGERIA. The Sources of the Raï. Cheikha Remitti, vocals - allow one week for shipment
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321008)

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)

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

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

Songs of Rejoicing. The Tetouan Women - allow one week for shipment
$19.99
(cdRoots# hm-ima321042)