Arabic Music
 

There's gotta be some arabic fans out there. I personally really like old arabic pop stuff, Sabah, Fairuz, Wadi Al-Safi, etc. Traditional stuff is cool, too. Anything from Parlophone's Voix de L'Orient is great.

Could you post some videos of popular stuff to give me\us an idea...?

Marcel Khalifeh, Charbel Rouhana, Lena Chamamyan

I'd like ta, but it says I don't have enough posts. Hang on...

www DOT youtube DOT com/watch?v=QkFT3BhK6cI

Try that

If you're diggin it, get this

magicofjuju DOT blogspot DOT com/2007/02/once-upon-lebanon.html

Thanks...and yeah you need 15.

Hopefully you find this place to your liking and stick around until then.

Armenian Lena Chamamyan has the most angelic beautiful voice. I love her music. Syrian jazz. Who would have thought.

no way could i listen to a 45 minute chant of "kill the infidel":finger:

Fairuz - Ziad Rahbany -
and Soap kills: oriental techno band. they're great

I have albums by Khaled (Algerian Rai singer) and Hamid El-Shaeri (Egyptian Al Jeel musician) and they're both really good, highly recommended stuff. Both play Arabic pop styles, so they shouldn't be too difficult for Western ears.

Cheb Khaled is good ... also in rai music there's "Sawt al atlas" really good music.
Sadly arabic pop is deteriorating more and more.

there is many arabian singers u can listen to

but i think the greatest is um kolthoum

Ok. This thread is pathetic, and I will change this reality. As Arabs only use their internet skills to add people on facebook and send messages like "u r so sweety", I thought it's time I'll just share my knowledge. I don't know much, a lot less then other people living here, but I'll try my best, and maybe get the ball rolling.

For now, I have talked in my journal about Fairuz, and Raï music. Plus Bulldog has covered Marcel Khalifé, and we can count Anouar Brahem in.
So to check them out:

Fairuz
Raï Music
Marcel Khalifé
Anouar Brahem

As for now, I'll try to update this thread as much as I can. It's either with Arabic speaking songs, or with Arabic artists not necessarily singing in the native language. If you need any links, I know some blogs that only have Arabic music, so just give us a shout.

Edit: I'll try to talk about the ones already mentioned in this thread, for a start. As no one felt the need to do more than throw names.

Ethiopiques
 

Does anybody know of these?

Any clue about what you're talking about?

Edit: And plz, we're trying to lessen the very brief uninformative posts.

ermmm this site is all about music........right?

well guess what, they are a collection of Artists from Ethiopia and they sing in Arabic, they have numerous albums out there, check out Amazon. There work is brilliant imo.... check them out. I can't post any links as yet.

That's what I got from Wiki:

So as it seems in Eritrea, one of the official languages is Arabic, so I can see why some of the Ethiopiques songs are in this language. I'll try to check them out, maybe get some album, but I'm predicting the music would be purely African... so I'll check them out.

Any specific songs you feel I should listen to at first?

The music is airy, atmospheric and kind of pure, if you mean "African" as in drum driven, then no it is not.

Check out The Very Best of Ethiopiques as a starter, if you like it go through the volumes there are I believe around 20 of them

hi



farewell

[QUOTE=NumberNineDream;810392]I still didn't find any downloadable link, will give a feedback when I hear them.


Don't know of any download links but you can listen to tracks here

Can't do it, haven't reached 15 yet.....

I'll be back soon

Check out Very best of Ethiopiques here

more Ethiopiques
 

Well they are very good, as I really did enjoy them, but I can't quite find what's so Arabic about it. I really think though, you should post about it in the Jazz section.

Egyptian hip hop
 

Although this is not what I listen, I thought I should share :)

^That's interesting. I donno though, I think maybe with hip-hop it has to be either instrumental or I have to understand what they're saying to really enjoy it...

Edit: Actually, after a second listen...I think it was just the first rapper that really put me off and bugged me. After that it was pretty decent. :thumb:

I am actually a big fan of Arabic music now, from previously dating and Arab he introduced me to a lot of music! I will find some of the artists I really like and post some videos later.

Good to see more people on here :thumb:

I'll be uploading to youtube a video of each of the three artists I reviewed for now, as I couldn't find my favourites on the net.

Edit: About the Egyptian rap song. I have something against the Arabic rap scene, as they tend to imitate Americans a lot, which kinda covers the true issues was all created about. Living in Egypt, the environment should give you enough material for millions of songs, but instead they decide to talk about a girl leaving him for someone who got money.

Maybe because of the tough censorship, that'd be my first guess. But if you want to be a "rapper", I think breaking the box should be a priority. However, it is enjoyable, outside the lyrics.

Black Metal from Bahrain. The lyrics are written in Standard Arabic.

Kind of a shame this thread is dead.

Anyway, here's Syrian legend, Sabah Fakhri

This is Persian, not Arabic, but I'm putting it here.

Niyaz- Sabza Ba Naz

Natacha Atlas - Kidda



I wish there was a walk like an egyptian emoticon. I'd use it right now. But there isn't. So you'll have to use your imagination.

Vas - Refuge

My kinda thread!! :afro:

My favorite Arabic music (generally speaking) are darbouka solos.

I'm sure most of you already know this, but this vid is an example of traditional Egyptian-style belly dance. This solo is performed by Veena Bidasha (perhaps one of the world's most sought-afters belly dancers) ... She and her identical twin Neena have been studying belly dance together since childhood, and do many of their performances together.

I chose this particular vid because this entire dance is a shimmy--the hallmark of the Egyptian style, which Veena executes to textbook perfection while making it look so effortless (it's not!!)...

Forgive me if this has already been posted; I will be perusing the rest of the posts later when I'm not so short on time... Enjoy this beautiful darbouka solo and dance!

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^ Man, bellydancing is sexy. :love:

I thought you'd appreciate that after you enjoyed my Rachel Bryce post :) of course Rachel doesn't often dance to Arabic music; and her style is more tribal fusion flavor. I can post more later if you like.

Yes please. :)

Najwa Karam - Ariftu Albi Lamin

The next dance is performed by Leyla Jouvana. She's actually much older than you'd probably guess (good Ukrainian genes, perhaps?) Her dancing simultaneously embodies creativity, playfulness, energy, elegance, precision, and unbridled joy. (Honestly I'm not sure how she doesn't get dizzy during some of those traveling turns!!) She's also a great teacher, and her husband plays the darbouka :) though not during this particular vid obviously.

Enjoy, Mr. C!

Oh, very sexy.

Perhaps this is just the heterosexual in me speaking, but belly dance-- believe it or not-- is not intended to be an overtly sexual dance (as opposed to cabaret, or even hip-hop)... It is rather the oldest celebration of the female form (try watching a man attempt it lol) and was/is used extensively during childbirth to help encourage a smooth delivery. Any sexuality is more or less secondary/incidental.

I'm tempted to post Amira dancing pregnant lol :D