not Muslimgauze...but music actually made in the Middle East. I have a big boner for this part of the world, their culture and politics especially. Constantly looking for new music from any Middle Eastern countries which is hard because a) it doesn't really get exposure around the world and b) i don't speak any arabic. Anyway here's a little collection of songs from all over the Middle East that I think are excellent and hopefully you'll get a kick out of them. Please contribute anything you might know!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHR9tyODJB0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHR9tyODJB0)
from the now-famous Saleel Sawarim video of ISIS members tooling around Iraq in SUVs and blowing people all to fuck. In fundamentalist Sunni islam, musical instruments are haram, forbidden, so ISIS has to make all its music with solely vocal parts + autotune and sound effects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYzi0i_-ky4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYzi0i_-ky4)
From the other side of the political spectrum, this is a song from the Lebanese Forces, an extreme right-wing Christian militia that supports/is supported by Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chJsY1fryKM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chJsY1fryKM)
non-political, goofy ass pop music from Iraq. I have no idea what this song is about or what's going on in this video but you can totally bump this one at a club or a party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-u-SG6c75E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-u-SG6c75E)
Mah Ensemble from Iran playing a very old Persian folk song about working in a field (I think). this one is not sung in arabic, but farsi. Crazy instrumentation and extremely impressive vocal lines
If anyone likes this stuff I can post more; I would also love to get recommendations from others
This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Ix92XDkoI) has been a personal favourite since I first heard it over ten years ago now. A full power flight.
And I fell in love with the voice of Fadia Al Haj on the cd "Sacred Women - Women As Composers And Performers Of Medieval Chant" (on the Dorian label), particularly on the excellent track "Inna Moussa", which alas I can't find on YouTube. Other material of hers I did find has a much more contemporary style.
Two good mix's... well worth downloading. Odd hearing other cultures trying to emulate western pop, resulting in crazy surreal results.
https://soundcloud.com/finderskeepersrecords/sounds-of-wunder-mixed-grill
https://soundcloud.com/finderskeepersrecords/sounds-of-wunder-mixed-platter
excellent thread.
I am no expert of middle eastern music, but I am quite fixated with speicifc instruments (especially percussions) from northern africa, middle east and Turkey.
did plenty of recordings with obscure Sufi material recorded first-hand by a researcher I know... plan to use it in the next foresta di ferro.
sufi has quite an interesting philosophy that is quite different from average Islamism.
I like the Mah Ensemble it sounds like it could be a really ancient or old type of music.
This guy died earlier this year I think he was well known in Iran Mohammad Reza Lotfi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bS3hn1ogzo
I am using something similar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5goISKPSH8
I have a particular fondness for the sunni nasheeds that are vocals-only. maybe not so good that I keep going on youtube channels called things like "Islamic Taliban Media" and such but oh well. I particularly like the first one in this video, called 'Habbat al Reeh' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZiV6bmPLfw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZiV6bmPLfw) very cool and interesting rhthyms created out of interlocking vocal parts with heavy delay and auto-tune
Quote from: ironfistofthesun on November 29, 2014, 11:22:31 AM
Two good mix's... well worth downloading. Odd hearing other cultures trying to emulate western pop, resulting in crazy surreal results.
https://soundcloud.com/finderskeepersrecords/sounds-of-wunder-mixed-grill
https://soundcloud.com/finderskeepersrecords/sounds-of-wunder-mixed-platter
Haha, I have become hooked on the first one. Makes for a jolly good time. Thanks.
I've been enjoying some sunni Nasheed. Got into it via Ahmed Bukhatir, but I'm mainly listening to the pro-Islamic State stuff these days. It has pathos in spades.
Bukhatir:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Whcmn0skWY
IS Nasheed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmV1w60TKgw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fa9lLm_9ak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4EVPp7KUU4
since I am from the region. then I hope this is going to be a useful stuff for you guys
this is part of a series recorded in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, Qatar and many more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68BQfyk3mwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DvRgAWY0I0
this is a little more modern from the Kuwaiti singer nabeel shuail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yJ6cmMGiPE
I don't know if this true or fake but in the middle east lot of people believed that Michael Jackson was killed because he converted to islam you know your typical conspiracy theories. something similar to princess Diana death conspiracy stuff. which again lot of people from the middle east also believe she was killed for the same reason. anyways regarding MJ song some said it was another guy but not him. "whoever did it" he praises Allah both in English and Arabic. personally I think MJ was a talented artist but also an "original lunatic" and to tell you the truth I don't even know if this is a bad thing specially in arts. you know something like the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. the chaos and horror of the Napoleonic wars in Spain had a drastic effect upon him, as can be seen in his later artistic life. by the way MJ brother is actually Muslim who lives in Bahrain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GiDPWqo7Ko
a black metal band from Saudi Arabia called alnamrood. of course playing such music in such place is nothing but a suicide. in this country anything related to music is done in secret. no rights of whatever sorts. while feminism flourish all over the world women in this country owns rights that is similar to dogs. however what I think is good about the band is the use of eastern instruments is little dirty. unlike melechesh (which I happened to like them too)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWqttlEbq8o
Not sure if some of you guys aware of it but I just remembered this one. Little information about dr. Syed kamran the man behind the creation of Harappian Night Recordings, this is something you don't hear everyday not even every 10 years. The Glorious Gongs of Hainuwele album. I don't know if this is a true field recordings or this man is a studio wizard! Not only middle eastern sounds but some South american too. 40 minutes of magic. (Not that it matters) but this album was praised by the wire magazine when it was released.
Thanks Zoladingoing! Great stuff there. Bumping up my old thread to post the Iranian band Rastak, who do some kind of admixture of folk/traditional music (incl. persian, azeri, kurdish, etc.) with more 'modern' and extensive arrangements. This video is a medley of those type of songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Nj5kIDajc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Nj5kIDajc) This one always gets stuck in my head
Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls (who spent a lot of time in the Middle East and recorded a ton of Middle Eastern-inspired experimental work) has a project/label called Sublime Frequencies. Most releases are radio collages, each dedicated to a specific country.
Radio Morocco, Radio Palestine, and Radio Algeria are personal favourites. The only problem is it can be virtually impossible to find out who some of the actual artists are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqlNpDC4ac8
Radio Morocco
Quote from: l.b. on September 24, 2015, 03:04:19 AM
Thanks Zoladingoing! Great stuff there. Bumping up my old thread to post the Iranian band Rastak, who do some kind of admixture of folk/traditional music (incl. persian, azeri, kurdish, etc.) with more 'modern' and extensive arrangements. This video is a medley of those type of songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Nj5kIDajc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Nj5kIDajc) This one always gets stuck in my head
Watched this so many times now. Boggles the mind! Have to grab some CDs of theirs.
Quote from: Andrew McIntosh on November 29, 2014, 09:12:31 AM
This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Ix92XDkoI) has been a personal favourite since I first heard it over ten years ago now. A full power flight.
Bringing back my ancient old thread because just today Amjad Sabri was shot and killed in Karachi. RIP
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/pakistan-sufi-singer-amjad-sabri-gunned-karachi-160622125456281.html
There's an exhaustive, interesting 17CD box set called The Music of Islam. I'm very much into Persian, Arabic, and Indian music.
A couple of favorites:
Amar El Achab - The Chaabi Of The Great Masters 2000
Amina Alaoui-Ahmed Piro and his orchestra - Arabo-andalusian music of Morocco 1995
Faramarz Payvar & Ensemble - Iran-Persian Classical Music 1994
Farida & the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble - The Voice of Mesopotamia 2003
Mohammad Reza Shajarian - Bidad 2005
and I feel Azam Ali's projects are worth checking. I like almost everything she's done, including the electronic material. The Niyaz - Nine Heavens album includes an all-acoustic disc of the same songs on the electronic CD. This is a beautiful, worthwhile performance. One of my favorite songs of theirs. https://youtu.be/Z-5sPQvb1QY (https://youtu.be/Z-5sPQvb1QY)
very very very interesting.
Not sure I mentioned this.
(http://www.fulldozer.org/img/distro/pamir_front_bg.jpg)
Various – Aryan Memory: Musical Traditions In Pamir
A unique deluxe collector's editon of traditional Pamir music "Aryan Memory". The set comprises a 6-page double DVD digipack holding two audio-CDs, a DVD and a 20-page full-colored booklet with information on musicians and conventional musical instruments of the Pamirs as well as a 100-page full-colored book in 14x25 cm format which describes the history of the Pamirs, beliefs and traditional ways of life of local residents (about 200 illustrations, texts are in both Russian and English). All components are packed in a bright-colored cardboard box. The Pamirs territory, being an almost inaccessible region, has preserved to this day tokens of the most ancient human culture, symbols, music, worldview, which are at least several millennia old - the spiritual foundation that gave birth to the greatest European and Asian cultures. But it should be mentioned that Pamir music is relatively unresearched, there have been issued only about five CD recordings, of which only one or two were favored with positive responses from the indigenous population of the Pamirs, because the spirit of this ancient civilization completely dissolves in recording studios and stays alive only when the music is performed in traditional environment. This recording of traditional Pamir music, presented in the "Aryan Memory" edition, is one of a few in this list, that had captured musicians in a fully unconstrained state and where the impact of sound-recording equipment was kept to a minimum. Particular attention should be given to the DVD, which is an integral part of the set. The film was shot both in the Pamirs in the River Bartang's Valley and at the Museum of musical instruments in Gurmindzh. It is an hour and a half long and it demonstrates the Pamir nature, it's ancient culture, dances and music and also exposes the psychology of the natives. There is no voice over or subtitles, the film relies mostly on meditative and trance-like perception. The book contains a lot of photos of forbidden regions of the Pamirs which in the recent times have been absolutely inaccessible to foreigners and are hardly accessible even now...
Limited edition 1000 hand-numbered copies.
Each copy weighs 750 gramms.
Quote from: Zeno Marx on June 22, 2016, 10:25:44 PMThe Niyaz - Nine Heavens album includes an all-acoustic disc of the same songs on the electronic CD. This is a beautiful, worthwhile performance. One of my favorite songs of theirs. https://youtu.be/Z-5sPQvb1QY (https://youtu.be/Z-5sPQvb1QY)
For a good while, Beni Beni (acoustic)'s been my go-to when I want a quick hit of Niyaz. While at the same time trying to persuade myself that I don't really listen to this stuff, do I?
Yes I'm messed up.
sublime frequencies as previously noted for ad hoc radio recordings, interference and all.
dj mutamassik for modern beat driven take on eastern music