Kader

Thanks

Thanks for the question. I don't even really know where to start. There's this genre of Arabic music called Muwashshah. It's very old Arabic poetry consisting usually of 5 stanzas sang over music, instruments usually being the oud, kamanja and qanun. This is one of my favourite songs and was written a very long time ago by an Arab poet in Al Andalus/Spain



There's also famous Iraqi oud player Naseer Shamma. I love his work.



I also love 60s Arabic music such as Mohammed Jamal, Fairuz, Abdel Halim Hafez and some underground acts like the Palestinian rap scene and some modern pop acts as well.