tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41702438365684776622024-02-07T09:26:53.347+03:00ƮᏲҾ дևծιστøρία.Audiophiles welcome!Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-90042041950147438652015-10-15T12:42:00.000+03:002015-10-15T12:42:07.467+03:00More Interesting Records for Sale on eBay!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is a bewilderingly good new batch of Middle-Eastern records up for grabs at the 'Bay! Dig teeth and gum into these:<br /></span></span></div>
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Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-32236172230704770272015-05-25T20:58:00.002+03:002015-05-25T21:00:33.171+03:00New Auction And Records Sale at eBay.com!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Welcome to the Audiotopia again!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Through the last few months, and with the advance of years passing without any new posts here at my music blog, I realised that I am more of a collector than I had ever thought I might be. To wit, back in 1993 I started crate digging around the dirty and dusty streets of the Jordanian capital here in Amman, and used to come across some rare gems, but I didn't really give it much of a mind back then: it was fun to go every weekend and see what's on offer at the now-closed fleamarket 'Pit' or <i>jourah</i> as it's called in Jordanian. Every country on the face of Earth has one of these for sure, some even has multiple erm 'pits'. Yet, throughout my digging routine, I wasn't paying too much of an attention to the importance of the burgeoning vinyl market back then; which now bodes as one of the fastest growing markets in the music industry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Little by little, I am getting back in shape after quitting my day job as a teacher and a translator to focus more on the collection and archiving, as well as selling of some of the world's rarest finds when it comes to crate digging. And, in the last three months ever since I've begun dedicated my entire time and effort; even when I was afflicted by a chronic heart disease that forbids me from exerting any duress and/or stress, I have managed to make it through bringing home hundreds of lost records from literally abject neglect and discard, among these are some of the rarest Egyptian and Syrian early 'renaissance' musicians 78 shellacs, numerous 45s, and many LP albums that started growing and growing so much that I thought, "Well, why not provide a glimpse of these rare records to the world through the Audiotopia, and maybe offer some on the Internet, too for sale to put fuel in the whole process and make it self-sustaining all though"?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">And, lo and behold, yesterday I placed my first ever LP for sale on eBay.com: A rare-as-a-two-tailed-lizard Lebanese political rock first album by the band Ferkat Al-Ard (Arabic: فرقة الأرض), titled "أغنية" that was issued on the unbelievably rare and collectors' must-own label 'Zida' that Ziad Rahbani has cow-owned along with Lebanese-Armenian Katchig Mardirian as a producer; who was Lebanon's first record seller and his son, Diran Mardirian is still carrying the legacy of his late father on and on selling records and DVDs in his Sadat street shop named aptly after the nickname of his father 'Chico's'. This record was pressed in 1979 and has few copies than anyone could ever possibly imagine so much the son of the ex-owner of the label himself; Diran, places this LP on his want-list at Discogs! It's in neat, perfect shape and beautiful collector-grade condition with absolutely preserved and beautiful gate-fold cover.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, in case you want to start seeing these records put on for sale, and wish to try for some, here is the chance. I am putting from now on every record's scans as they become available on a new post here and the rest is yours to decide. This is the first one:<br /></span></span><br />
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Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-62022644146964915322014-02-03T11:07:00.001+02:002014-02-04T02:15:57.459+02:00The Voice of Egypt, And God's Gift to Earth: Umm-Kalthoum's Passing Away Anniversary Today.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A photo-collage I made especially for the memory of Umm.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many tried to be like her, but many fell short of being half her glory.<br /><br /> There wasn't a single performer; be they male or female, who had her Voice; who possessed of her magic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Umm-Kalthoum stood firm as 'The Fourth Pyramid' in the Egyptian land of the Nile, and died there standing like a giant thirty-nine years ago today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some even call her, though as the 'First Pyramid', while most do refer to her as <i>Kawkab Asharq</i> ('The Eastern Star'), and Arabs love to just call her "<i>el-Sett</i>", or simply, 'The Lady'.<br /><br /><br />I have become very interested in collecting all of el-Sett's live concerts, lately</span></span>—<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">those rare acts of sheer ecstasy unseen anywhere in the realm of music whether modern or old, or in between. And, I am so very proud and chuffed to see my personal collection growing way past the 500 live performances (sometimes reaching an apex of 24 different renditions for the same 'piece').<br /><br /><br />It fills me with happiness to also be an Arab who understands the words that many poets and song-writers have worked so hard to arrange and attribute to this wonderful Lady of The East. Only last year, I entertained the thought of translating some of the poems that she sang, and my first, humble attempt was 'Aghadan Alkaq' (Words: Al-Hady Adam; a Sudanese poet, Composed by Mohammed Abdel-Wahab): </span></span></div>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tomorrow, Shall I Meet You?<br /><br /></span></span> </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">أغداً ألقاك؟ يا خوف فؤادي من غدٍ</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tomorrow,
shall I meet you? Oh, how my heart trembles of that day!<br /><br />
<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">يا لشوقي وإحتراقي في إنتظار الموعد</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Behold
the eagerness and how I burn in return,<br /><br />
<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">آه كم أخشى غدي هذا وأرجوه إقترابا</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ah,
how I fear this Tomorrow of mine, and I beseech it not to delay;<br /><br />
<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">كنت أستدنيه لكن هبته لما أهابا</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
used to tempt it to try, but it bickered as I,<br /><br />
<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">وأهلت فرحة القرب به حين استجابا</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet,
the joy of its being near was there when it’d finally obey.<br /><br />- - - <br /><br />
<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">هكذا أحتمل العمر نعيماً وعذابا</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is how I take this world; with both bliss and pain,<br /><br />
<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">مهجة حرة وقلباً مسه الشوق فذابا</span><br />
With a burning ember, and a heart melted upon the touch of its own strain,<br /><br />
<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">أنت يا جنة حبي واشتياقي وجنوني</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">You,
the garden of my love; my wantonness, and me being insane;<br /><br />
<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">أنت يا قبلة روحي وانطلاقي وشجوني</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">You,
the pilgrimage for my soul; my fecundity, and my chagrin,<br /><br />
<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">أغداً تشرق أضواؤك في ليل عيوني</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Would
it be the day when your lights would brighten the night of my eyes, again?<br /><br />
<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">آه من فرحة أحلامي ومن خوف ظنوني</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ah,
the lustful dreams! The fear of my doubtful schemes!<br /><br />- - - <br /><br />
<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">كم أناديك وفي لحني حنين ودعاء</span></span></span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">أناأحيا لغد آن بأحلام اللقاء</span></span></span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">فأت أو لا تأتي أو فإفعل بقلبي ما تشاء.</span></span></span></div>
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This life is a sky you are its shining moon caught;</span></span></div>
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So, have mercy on this heart only you it sought,</span></span></div>
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Tomorrow, and in between your palms you’ll hold it taut.<br /><br />- - -</span></span></div>
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And, Tomorrow we shall enthrall the garden’s rivers and shade;</span></span></div>
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And, Tomorrow we shall forget as not to regret a past forayed;</span></span></div>
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And, Tomorrow we will thrill as the unknown won’t have a place;</span></span></div>
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And, Tomorrow we shall live only for today’s grace;</span></span></div>
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<br />Yes, true what we don’t know might be sweet, still today stays a sweeter treat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hello, everyone. This is me; Hammer, again getting back to the blogosphere only to announce yet, another sad and tragic death of one more music icon in the Middle-East region, this time it's from the State of Israel. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arik was mourned in Israel in a huge funeral on Wednesday's afternoon, and was finally placed in his resting place at Trumpledor Cemetery. Many weeping fans and devotees flanked his apartment at Hovevei T'Zion street in grievance, and the Prime Minister of Israel; </span><span style="font-size: small;">Benjamin Netanyahu himself spoke a few eulogising words before he was taken to the cemetery to be buried, and called him "... The essence of a true, beautiful Israel." Yes, true. And, even when there is little or no peace on that land where thousands of good men and women have walked since Biblical times, let's hope that Arik's soul will reach its Creator and rest in His Peace and Love for an eternity to last.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">I can't say much right now; I am pretty much in a state of awe, but I shall leave you with these sad words and an LP album that most critics consider to be the first ever psychedelic rock music album to come from Israel, ripped by yours trully (in 320 kips, with songs' titles in both Hebrew and their translations into English): Capricorn. Dig it down there in all its '<i>Dylanesque</i>' glory and innocent, childish cover. And, I promise you to give Arik Einstein a full obit-post in a few days, along with all of his best albums.<br /><br /> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?vp7fbl66qcdlrrl" target="">Mazal Gdi (מזל גדי) - Arik Einstein <br />(with The CBS Orchestra, Conducted by, Alex Weiss) - 1968</a>.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">It's been such a 'deafinite' silence the past few months, but as of now, the sound; the music, and the joy will all start to reappear right here at the Audiotopia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today's artist has all three elements which can make life rather livable</span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">—</span>and as a singer, musician, and an entertainer</span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">—</span></span></span>he became known as 'The King' of popular song in his wonderful country Sudan ('<i>Malik Al-Ou</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's read with vigour his story now...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Kamal Ibrahim Suleiman, better known
as ‘Tarbas’ is a king in a true sense considering how he kept standing all
through 40-plus years fighting competition on ground, and elsewhere, standing
as tall as giants until he became known as the ‘King’, deservedly. His story begins in <i>Hai Al-Qhala’â</i>,
at <i>Al-Sayyed Al-Makki</i>: a place in Umm-Durman where many intellectuals and
musicians were born like singer Mohammed Ahmad S’rour, and leaders like Ismael
Al-Azhary</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> (who became
the first Sudanese president after the end of British colonial rule in 1956).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Kamal was a
smart kid at elementary school (<i>Al-Hedaya</i>), when he was moved to study at
<i>Al-Shiek Al-Tahhir Al-Chalaby</i> school, which headmaster Khaled Abul-Rous heard
him sing as part of the school’s celebrations choral and advised him to stay
singing, assuring him that, “You are nothing but a true artist.” His musical
upbringing started at the expert hands of Mahmoud Falah, who invited the young
Kamal each day, from 10-2 P.M. to be part of <i>Awlad Al-Mawarda</i> (‘Sons of Rosewater’, a musical band),
and later taught him how to memorise songs and compose his own.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">At Dar Falah
as that musical school was known in the late 50’s, Kamal became a star,
literally, alongside future singers like Mohammed Bachir A’ateeg and ‘Hadabai. The owner asked him to record some songs of his own compositions, and so he
went to Umm-Durman’s Radio, headed at that time by Ustad Ali Makki, who heard
him, but didn’t allow the very young Kamal to have a recording session time at
his esteemed radio station asking him finally to “Go look for another job.” because
he was too young. And so went Kamal’s destiny as he joined instead of a singing career... a
carpentry workshop.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">At the
workshop in Umm-Durman, he became known as a ‘<i>tarbas</i>’: a door-fitter, or a
bolter because of his exceedingly good craftsmanship that was the talk of the
whole place. Sadly, the family had to relocate to <i>Hai Al-Merighniyeh</i> in Kassala;
a well-known market city which was a move to enable his father to provide for
his family. In Kassala, Kamal attended the nightly parties where music was played
al-fresco and tried to share the joyful atmosphere with his young voice, but what made him stand out from a rather musically-talented crowd
in the mid-60’s was his unique singing style that he’s learned at the Dar Falah
back in his hometown.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(L) With fellow singers, early 70's.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So, the story
goes: after Kamal used to climb trees at the back of the Dayat Umm-Durman, near
the old radio station to listen to the giants of Sudanese folk music sing at
the studio there like Al-Zein Hamid, etc. things in Kassala changed his life’s
course, entirely when his old-school friend Mohammed Bachir A’ateeg saw him
singing under a tree and invited him to the radio to sing <i>A’</i></span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">â</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>ini Ma Tabki</i>
(‘Don’t Cry My Eyes’) that he recorded in 1967, writing soon afterwards his
first self-composed song (<i>Natagha Al-Ism</i>, or ‘She Said The Name’).</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Mohammed Ahmad A'âwwad.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">S'rour, 30's.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">From that
date on, Kamal’s genius in composing and singing his own music saw no stop. He became known as
the king of <i>qa’</i></span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">â</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>dat</i> (settings) which was where he got the
nickname ‘The King’ and by the end of the 60’s, he moved from Kassala to the
capital Al-Khartoum to go professional in a hugely competitive arena ruled by
Mohammed Ahmad A’</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">â</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">wwad (<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-JO">(محمد أحمد
عوض</span></span>, nicknamed in Sudan as
Al-Khal, or the ‘Uncle’ whose parties used to attract storming crowds flocking
to see this short-bodied man sing, holding a small tambourine, or </span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">rīqh</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;">. Among other singers
that Kamal Tarbas was influenced by, were those early so-called ‘bag singers’
who sang their songs in the 50’s; started by Al-Haj Mohammed Ahmad S’rour in
1920 who rejected the <i>tamboūrah</i> as the mainstay instrument in Sudanese musical
ensembles, and introduced the <i>musalas </i>(musical-triangle), and the tambourine,
then came Ibrhaim Al-Kachif who styled it in <i>lazmah</i>, or a stable scale in the
40’s.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ibrahim Al-Kachif.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In 1945, an Umm-Durman radio programme aired presented by poet Salah
Mohammed Ahmad Saleh, was called ‘<i>min</i> ‘<i>Hakiebat Al-Fan</i>’, or From Art’s Bag. Some critics
affirm this as to be the etymological reason why were these earlier songs became known as the ‘bag songs’ (</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">later, ‘songs of Umm-Durman’)</span></span></span>. Some others contest
that it’s called so because of the music instruments cases, or bags that those
early musicians always held wherever they went, while others might allude to the analogy between the
word ‘<i>hekbah</i>’ in Arabic, which means a decade, epoch, etc. and </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">‘</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>hakibah</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">’</span></span></span></i> which means a bag to that stage in music evolution. The word itself
means ‘bag’, literally, and it’s a collective term used by the earlier masters who
collected these songs (mostly poetry-based) in one bag, figuratively to
distinguish it from other styles.</span></span></span></div>
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programme is still being aired in Sudan till this very day, witnessing a lot of
changes in the anchoring seat, by such early pioneers of music-shows in
Sudanese music history such as Al-Sir Ahmad A’</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">â</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">wwad. It’s a remarkable thing to just try
and comprehend how much Sudanese people love their music! It’s incomparable anywhere
else in the world. Sudanese people are adamant and avid music lovers of the
first calibre; their music means everything to them, really. These ‘songs of
the bag’ are actually their history written in songs called ‘<i>rewayat</i>’, or audio-novellas.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(R-L) Burhan, Karoumah, Omar Al-Banna, S'rour.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Sayyed Abd Al-Aziz.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Ibrahim Al-A’</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">â</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">bady.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Tarbas grew
with these listening to the early masters like Karoumah, Ibrahim Al-Kachif, Al-Amin
Burhan, Ibrahim Abde Al-Jaleel, Mohammed Al-Tayyeb, Al-Taj Mustapha, </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://theaudiotopia.blogspot.com/2012/05/abd-al-aziz-abu-daoud-daoud-howlin-wolf.html">Abd
Al-Aziz Abu-Daoud</a>, </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Amin Abd Al-Rahman, Ahmad Mustapha, Hassan A’</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">â</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">tyyah,
Sayyed Abd Al-Aziz, Al-Tharri, Osman Hussein, Ibrahim A’</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">â</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">wwad, Ibrahim Al-A’</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">â</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">bady, Al-Chafe’</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">â</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">i, Hamamati etc.
each has his own style of incorporating tales in the musical performance of
these songs, and/or when writing these influenced by the early 19</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">th-century poets. So was the same for Kamal Tarbas whose early starts weren’t
easy at all as he had to base most of his genius on those now-dead singers' songs and traditions long forgotten by the advent of <i>hadis</i> music, or modern Sudanese pop music
(called in Sudan, <i>u</i></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>ğniyat
al-maraheem</i>, or dead people’s songs).</span></span></span></div>
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from the light ‘danceable’ tunes, to the heavy ‘<i>sma’âei</i>’ ones like his famous <i>jalsat</i> (which to me, are his best works), sung solo to the accompaniment of an oud
player. Kamal Tarbas’ music was particularly chaâbi like Mohammed Ahmad A’âwwad’s
was before him. He took the stage from A</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">’â</span></span></span>wwad using one or two tablas; a bongo, one
tambourine (he played it softly mid-stage), in addition to 3-4 <i>shayyaleen</i>, (شيالين) or
percussing-clapping singers. Chaâbi music in Sudan is considered the hardest
style to sing, and Tarbas excelled in it, nonetheless.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">He was so smart in taking up a bunch
of <i>shayyaleen</i> (sing. <i>Shayyal</i> which means ‘to carry’ literally, verb-use <i>sheel</i>; ‘carry’)
who ‘carried’ the heavy load from his vitrified shoulders in the scorching hot
sun as he sang in <i>haflas</i> (parties) outdoors. They were one, unified family of
singers, so much, a singular <i>shayyal</i>’s voice would end up sounding very much
like the lead singer’s himself. This is the reason why most critics see Kamal Tarbas'
voice as a ‘never-changing’ one because he didn’t abuse it, and thanks to the
<i>shayyaleen</i> he succeeded at making it easier on him to sing for years on end. At almost 60 now, he still sounds so young, and his songs are liked by the young as well as the older generation.</span></span></span><br />
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subgenres, like <i>ağani al-seerah</i> (oratory long songs of a historical type), <i>madyeh </i>or <i>madeeh </i>(adulatories), and wedding songs, or <i>a’âras</i>
music (which Tarbas is always the singer to call for whenever such an occasion appears). Among many lesser-known styles, he sang <i>el-tim-tim</i>, <i>kratch</i> (Kamal introduced it
into modern Sudanese music), and the <i>bayou</i>. The godfather of chaâbi is A’âwwad
who started the first band (along with Badi Mohammed Al-Tayyeb, A’âwwad
Al-Kareem, Abdellah Sedeeq Al-Kahlwai) in 1964. But, the popularity of his band didn't last as each member went solo by the late-60</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s, early-70</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The best asset for success for
any popular singer is the audience, though and not the audition and Kamal succeeded to hypnotise his
audience with his soft voice, singing for the old and young; rich and poor,
male and female, etc. taking only the choice words written by the most
sensitive poets that he knew would move his audience into an ecstatic mass of
swooning drunks. To top this hard work, he deliberately wore a gigantic <i>âmmah</i>
(turban), or <i>âmammah</i> that was on top of his head like a deserved crown. His
sartorial sense of dress was in one word ‘impeccable’: according to Sudanese
standards, to take care of your looks is a sign of not being an aristocrat, but
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times up to 6-7 metres!) that he kept pulling to the front whenever he started
singing his old, traditional songs feeling every word he utters with his ‘trained-and-true’ throat. The <i>shayyaleen</i> before he incorporated them were just an introductory act who sang a
few words and that was that: Kamal came and changed this and enjoined them to
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">But, Tarbas’ true fame came from his
early radio days (<i>Izza'ât Al-Bath Al-Soudani, Umm-Durman</i>), thanks to
another radio-jockey namely, Omar Osman whose programme <i>Sa’ât Samar </i>(‘An
Hour’s Joy’) presented to the Sudanese populace such talents in the music
category as Salah Ibn Al-Badyeh, Ismael Hasb Al-Dayyem, Abdel Qader Salem, Abu-O’âbeidah
Hassan, Zaki Abdel Al-Kareem, S’ounaei Al-A’âsimah, Ibrahim A’âwwad, Mohammed
Wardi (who died last year and his funeral was attended by Tarbas), and last but
not least our very own Kamal Tarbas himself.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">At Mohammed Omar Wardi's Funeral (<span class="st"><span class="f">Feb|18|2012).</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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in his repertoire and reporty. He picked only the best script to sing and
composed those tunes taking care of their intros (maybe to emphasise more the rule
of his fore-singing <i>shayyaleen</i>). One of his best-sung songs (<i>Inta
Al-Muhim</i>, or ‘You’re The One Who Matters’) that people loved so much, they started to sing it to
each other, be they loved ones or just friends, and it was a love song written by Sudanese
poet Abed Al-Aâl Al-Sayyed, and won the best Sudanese song title in 2009. It
was taken so seriously it</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">’</span></span></span>s said a couple got divorced after the wife asked
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">His charisma was so enthralling that
whenever he started to sing softly and beat his tambourine—being a natural
smiler, and a bit of a fat guy himself who'd look all of sudden so sad, you couldn</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>t but wish to have him hugged, instantly—his audience went into a higher level of
listening, sometimes shutting their eyes, even when right in front of them stood
a huge man whose turban (or, crown; however you can see it as such) was there. This invisible crown had a funny thing about it, too: Well, most Sudanese citizens are asked to take theirs off when taking new passport photos except
Tarbas: the passport authority allowed him to keep it in his passport photo!</span></span></span></div>
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fellow lower-echelon singers by inventing witty comedowns and tuneful slogans
such as this one: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“</span></span></span><i>Ana zai al-pepsi: aliey bai habani bahdoum laiho, we’l
bekrahni… betla’â laiho be nakhrehou!</i>” (trans. I am like Pepsi: Ones who love
me, I can digest for those, as who hate me I only can choke them through their
nose). He is a genial man who still lives to this day, famous for crying once
on public television after singing a song for mothers on Mother’s day (<i>Allah Yesalimik Ya Yummah</i>). Such a
magnanimous singer, who cared for his people and catered for their hard-to-please musical taste.</span></span></span></div>
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haters, this Pepsi-can of a man. Seriously, those who hate Tarbas are lacking
in their depths the understanding of what could make him whom he is today: Sudan’s King of Song. It’s not his
popularity alone, but the way he handles himself through a lot of the competition
that was like a haunting ghost throughout his music career since the late 60</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">’</span></span></span></span></span></span>s, and having to swim these dangerous, envious waters resident in Sudanese music circles. It is not an easy job to be a singer in Sudan, let alone... A King of song.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Kamal (far L) with Al-Khoujali Osman<br />Ali Ibrahim Al-Lahou & Composer A'<span style="line-height: 115%;">â</span>wwad Gabriel.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Some even dared criticise
him for using modern instruments when he was the sole musician in the whole of Sudan to build (on his
full personal expense) a ‘Dar’, or house, for Sudan’s oldest-known ‘bag singer’:
Karoumah in 1985 yet, he still gets the heat for modernising old, traditional music. Kamal is a singer of two generations: The old who have influenced almost all of his singing career, and the younger ones who need his backing with their every aspiring young career move, too. </span></span></span><br />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>al-reäd </i>(The Wantonness/ The Want. Arabic: الريد<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>). It</span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span class="st"><span class="longtext"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll;">is a wholesome
feeling felt in all of his songs singing it with a sense of loss because I
think, personally, Kamal was this singer who was envied for being a King. It</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll;">’s his high-status that begot him such faultiness with the others (and,
numerous fights and gossip) instead of yes... Love, pure love, or the want to
be loved by his people.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The King.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not all kings are loved, anyways. But, in the music world
(and, especially in Sudan), love will prevail and the real king/s are those who
have love inside them. Love makes us all kings and queens<i>.</i></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, <i>long live King Tarbas!</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br /></i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">☓☓☓☓☓☓☓☓☓ </span></b><i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Music:</span></span></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The King's first Cartridge picture-cover.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Today's music downloads are rich in quantity (9 DL-able files in tote containing more than 1 GB worth of music!). Almost all of Kamal Tarbas’ songs are here for you to download and listen to (well over 230+ songs). Just like the norm is with music from Sudan, artists have songs of them accompanied by an oud (Oudio: <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/64estwu3g24582w/Kamal_Tarbas_-_%27Oudio%27_-_Vol._1.rar">Vol. 1</a>/ <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/cnkd8xwe9cra6n2/Kamal_Tarbas_-_%27Oudio%27_-_Vol._2.rar">Vol. 2</a>), or as part of the modern, Sudanese band (Orchestra: <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/dz52y80q688pzdd/Kamal_Tarbas_-_Orchestra_%28Vol._1%29_-_Haflah-Jalsah.rar">Vol. 1</a> (<i>Haflah</i>/<i>Jalsah</i>)/ <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/7xcm7dqgfcqkzgk/Kamal+Tarbas+-+Orchestra+%28Vol.+2%29.rar">Vol. 2</a>/ <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/abfnl0coe8i97zl/Kamal_Tarbas_-_Orchestra_%28Vol._3%29.rar">Vol. 3</a>/ <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/4sdad0p3iqq1z9j/Kamal_Tarbas_-_Orchestra_%28Vol._4%29.rar">Vol. 4</a>). Dig both.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />Bonus files are taken from a radio programme (<i>Sa’</i></span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">â Ma’</span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>â Al-Oud</i>) which recorded in the early-to-mid-80's through the Umm-Durman Radio (إذاعة البث السوداني بأم درمان). One-hour <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/c03vv0kc6vef6ze/Sa%E2%80%99%C3%A2_Ma%E2%80%99%C3%A2_Al-Oud_-_Kamal_Tarbas%2C_Umm-Durman_Radio_-_1983.rar">file</a> is entirely Tarbas while as a bonus-bonus, another <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/rrxx5e5rxkz2lqx/Sa%E2%80%99%C3%A2_Ma%E2%80%99%C3%A2_Al-Oud_%28featuring%2C_Abd_Al-Kareem_All-Kably%2C_Abd_Al-Dafa%E2%80%99%C3%A2_Osman%2C_Mohammed_Wardi%29.rar">show</a> features other Sudanese singers like Al-Kably, Abd Al-Dafa’</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">â Osman, and Mohammed Wardi (whom Tarbas considered his closest friend).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">UPDATE 07/20/2K13:</span></span><br />Here is another <a href="http://mediafire.com/?dhh5ms5fbbhy76o">zip-file</a> that contains five more Umm-Durman FM shows aired this Ramadan through the Sudanese Transmission Authority Radio. The singers/oud-players included are: Abdel-Kareem Al-Kably (this time alone with only his oud), Osman Hussein, Ibrahim Awwad, Hicham Mergheni, and three young, singers together: Mustapha Sayyed, Al-Khaldi, & Seif Al-Jam'ea. Do enjoy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">One last cassette-album is a new one by Kamal Tarbas (Sir Al-Ghboul: The Secret of Admission) which he recorded in 2009. Hear how his style matured in this one which most Sudanese people pick as their favourite album by Kamal Tarbas.<br /></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/p62isnvf0lo5ezf/Kamal_Tarbas_-_Sir_Al-Ghboul.rar">Kamal Tarbas - Sir Al-Ghboul</a><br /><span style="color: #b45f06;">.ســـــر القـــبـــول</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">All you have to do to download all files at once is follow this <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?5mcn839md2vso">link</a> now, and that will take care of everything; including your troubles, worries, and unnecessary sadness in this temporary world.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />Music is the very breath and substance of life.<br /><br />Enjoy!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">-</span>Here is a <a href="http://hageebatalfun.blogspot.com/">blog</a> about </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="longtext"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Bag Songs</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> in Arabic, complete with what I think is the best collection of sounds from a long-lost, and undocumented era in Sudanese music. Enjoy it, immensely even<span style="font-size: small;"> if </span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="longtext"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>in Arabic only:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Ingredients/ <span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span>3 full cups of flour, 1/4 starch, 1/4 ground, uncooked rice<br /> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span>3 eggs, 2 tea-spoons of Baking Powder, 1 teaspoon Vanilla</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> <br />How to Make/ Mix the starch, rice, and baking powder with a dash of salt together well until homogenised, add the eggs, oil, water and vanilla after that. When the mixture is settled, slowly, add the flour until you get a smooth dough. Leave for 1/2 an hour. To cook, use medium heat and a deep-dish for grilling the dough dumplings that you can make by cutting the dough into thin strips and rolling these with the end of a fork, slowly, and at the end twist the dough to go between the fork's teeth. Heat the oil for 2 minutes and start to grill dipping the fork inside the dish and slowly turning it as to drop the dough inside in order to be cooked.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bon appétit, folks. This post was a return of this blog (as promised) back to blogland, and a way to celebrate the 100,000 strong visitors in a year or so since it was started. Also, the love of Sudanese music brings me to mention <a href="http://lolaradio.blogspot.com/">Lola Radio</a> whose blog was and still is one of the best for African/ Sudanese music ever. He is going through some rough times right now being laid-off his job, but what is happiness in this ailing, dilapidated world but the good chance to hear new and exciting sounds? He has one of the best places to enjoy any kind of that freedom music allows, so don't deny yourselves this chance to go listen to what he already has on his music-blog (Lola Vandaag). This one is for you, Gerrit. Enjoy it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />And now, and until the next post (the second part of this inauguratiory one here that I hope you did like), we shall go 'sail' our ships to the Arabian Gulf region and hear from one of the best singers of all times: Salem Al-A'</span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">â</span></span>llan; the Howler of The Arabian Sea, or as some nicknamed him 'The Lion'. So, tonight we've got ourselves a King, tomorrow the Lion will be here, too at The Audiotopia (no relation whatsoever to stupid, Disneyfied shittola). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Please, do not miss it.</span></span><br />
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Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-8177448879564147952013-05-09T07:13:00.003+03:002013-06-05T23:50:22.096+03:00The Audiotopia Returns.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Greetings, and warm welcomes for those visiting few who have returned back to these surroundings again after what appears like a forever spent away from Blowgtown.<br /><br />This blog has witnessed a hush for the last 9 months or so, because generally, blogging about music has become a pain in the bum for most active bloggers. To wit, my MediaFire accout was sabotaged on more than one occasion, and a handful of files were annulled for no good reason whatsoever.<br /><br />The rage-waves felt across the whole of the Internet</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span>as many similar closure-and-censure stories took place, like what happened at <a href="http://bodegapop.blogspot.com/">Bodega Pop</a></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span>were evidence enough that there was a conscientious, schematic plan to get rid of all active, file-sharing music communities on the web. Many websites were severely stricken like <a href="http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/">Mutant Sounds</a>.<br /><br />Well, I guess I stayed an on-looker all through that stretch of time, looking ahead as I knew that there's still so much to give and show the avid music ethnosiast when it comes to sharing my love of Middle-Eastern music. All in all, it wasn't easy to get back to the blogging-stone due to some busy schedule, life's dues to pay, and a roster of other things.<br /><br /><br />But, here we are again.<br /><br />Allow me to introduce to you two of the coming 'double-feature' artists (both male singers), whom are going to be the subject of my next post here on The Audiotopia...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">First, we will be introduced to a Bahraini singer, or more so... a 'howler' (or, <i>naham</i> in Arabic), named Salem Allan. This 'toothless' singer; who went blind at the end of his life due to singing itself, was known as the best sea chanter and pearl-diving song-leader anywhere in the area known now as The Arabian Gulf. His legacy is still honoured by fellow Bahraini artists who mixed his songs into new beats and modern melodies, but still the soul of that singer lingers on and on. Also, he was featured (along with his fellow co-singer, and fellow <i>naham</i> Ahmad Butabbaniya) in one of UNESCO's Collection series calle<span style="font-size: small;">d, 'Chants des Pêcheurs de Perle<span style="font-size: small;">s' - Bahr<span style="font-size: small;">ain, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Fidjeri</i>: Songs of the Pearl Divers.<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Through our first 'come-back' post, I am going to present you a detailed introduction to a very obscure world of music from that oil-rich area of the world little known outside a handful of academic textbooks, let alone spoken or documented by the locals themselves of such </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><i>über-</i></span>r</span>ich countries and states as Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates. The music itself is insanely rich in styles and can vary from the mundane, danceable 6/4 tunes, to hypnotic, chant-a-longa hymns very much like those found sung by Buddhist monks in the Tibet. The information will be detail-heavy, and very all-inclusive. Actually, this is going to be the main post about pearl-diving songs and hymns explaining Salem's music in unprecedented detailedness. <br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Next on this double-feature is going to be a hark-back paid visit to the wonderful land of Sudan to hear a complete collection (like the post for <a href="http://theaudiotopia.blogspot.com/2012/05/abd-al-aziz-abu-daoud-daoud-howlin-wolf.html">Abd Al-Aziz Abu-Daoud</a>, so Sudanese music collectors like Gerrit at <a href="http://lolaradio.blogspot.com/">LolaRadio</a> take heed, please) of almost every song sung and recorded by one, Sudanese amiable singer during his still-active career: The singer's name is Kamal Tarbas, and he's known for his 6-meter long famous mega-turban (or, <i>âmmah</i>) and classic debonair sense of sartorialism. He's a well-built man who's a bit over-weight that stood in front of his enchanted audience banging softly on a thin tambourine, or what's called in Sudanese, <i>el-rīqh</i>. Such a sight, really.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Controversial at best, Tarbas' music is still well-revered throughout the Republic of Sudan even after he started singing alongside a band of <i>shayyals</i> (the antonym of a back-singer; these are 3-4 'fore-singers' who clap copiously to the lead-singer's song), in the mid-90's. There will be a couple of his cassette-albums available for download, plus a huge comp for his songs (Oud/Orchestra) which will contain 170+ songs, in addition to an hour-long live-set that he played called 'An Hour With The Oud', on Sudan's National Radio (<i>Izza'at Al-Bath Al-Soudani</i>). I am sure those who love Sudanese music will really enjoy this coming post.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br /><br />What's left to say, but a thank-you for being loyal fans of music and Middle-Eastasic tunes right here on the 'Topia.<br /><br />Guys, be well and stay tuned as soon...<br /><br /><br /><i>The Audiotopia returns!</i><br /><br />Bye bye.<br /><br /><br />H.H.</span></div>
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Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-21216414145436032042012-10-20T00:51:00.005+03:002012-10-20T01:40:44.953+03:00The Gnawait Is Almost Done: Gnawa And The Remarkable Men of Morocco.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is an announcement for those of you who had by any
chance been waiting for that post about Gnawa music that I'd promised to
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">It's of no use for me to explain how much the last three months or so been busy, and I can't begin to apologise for this unintentional delay. But, as from now on, the work on the Gnawa post (Title: <span style="color: #bf9000;">The </span><i style="color: #bf9000;">Musijins</i><span style="color: #bf9000;"> of Morocco, Gnawa Trance Nights And The Daemonical Side of Moroccan Music. - قــــناوة</span>.), will begin and in no time the post's going to get pubbed 'ere <i>insh'Allah</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">All I can assure you of is that I'm working on it right now, and it'll really be something worthy of your waiting (or, as I self-coined it above your... 'Gnawaiting'). Prepare to be amazed because the information; the new-found knowledge and the sheer volume of its detailedness will be one of a kind.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span><span style="color: #783f04;">⌘⌘⌘⌘⌘⌘⌘⌘⌘</span></b><b><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Enjoy your days, and until then... you can read about <a href="http://theaudiotopia.blogspot.com/2012/10/rip-abderrahmane-paco-obit-post.html">Abderrahmane Paco</a>: one, great <i>guembri</i>-player and Gnawa musician who passed away sadly earlier this week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">With all due respect,<br /><br /><br />H.H.</span></div>
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Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-58584480135277291182012-10-18T15:20:00.000+03:002012-12-06T11:52:27.862+03:00R.I.P. Abderrahmane Paco: An Obit-Post.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />الــــــبـــقـــاء لــلــــه</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-sQMZKsu_mde0IIy92hCeE4jurYSaDHdLHOWac3cUnveP2z-3RKTwL30QnipX1a10vpCcgNGf2Kf2AbI2NZPqvx_y76dpDWWQM_vdbYS8QqX88gFI4CBFAmriva3k6Sssirf2X4aE3Qbr/s1600/00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-sQMZKsu_mde0IIy92hCeE4jurYSaDHdLHOWac3cUnveP2z-3RKTwL30QnipX1a10vpCcgNGf2Kf2AbI2NZPqvx_y76dpDWWQM_vdbYS8QqX88gFI4CBFAmriva3k6Sssirf2X4aE3Qbr/s320/00.jpg" width="320" /></a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: small;"><i>Bislamah, Si
Abderrahmane!</i><br />R.I.P.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Maâlem Abderrahmane
'Paco' Kirrouche.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1948-2012.</span></div>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The funeral march to his last place.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Gnawa
world was left in a state of total shock; awe, disbelief, even complete amazement this last Sunday after
the news of the death of one of its true pillars and stars of this type of Arabic music:
Abderrahmane Kirrouche (عبدالرحمن قيروش, also known fondly as just 'Paco', or sometimes 'Paca'),
was announced dead after fighting illness for the last five years which
left him paralysed, unable to speak, and very weak. He died in his house
in Casablanca at the age of 64, and was taken soon afterwards to a hospital in Hai
Al-Ma'areef to be prepared for burial there until his wife agreed on the
place of his grave having been outside of Morocco at the time of her husband's death.<br /><br /> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Shuhada Cemetery.</span> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The burial which took place
this last Monday's afternoon at Maqbarat Al-Shuhada (Martyrs' Cemetery), in
Casablanca saw a few members of his family attending; his eldest son Younis along with many of his relatives, close
friends, writers, musicians and fans. It was a macabre funeral wrapped in a shroud of sadness and sheer
sense of a loss of one of the greatest names in Moroccan art and music. Some of the ex-members of his ex-band (Nass El-Ghiwane) were attending there, too like Omar Al-Sayed, who carried his friend and companion for over twenty years with his one hand walking with a stick on the other, and laid him to his last resting place at the same cemetery that has the tombs of two passing ex-members of this Moroccan band (</span><span style="font-size: small;">Hgour Boujam</span><span style="font-size: small;">i and </span><span style="font-size: small;">L'Arabi Batma). </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Younis, Paco's elder son laying his father <br />inside his grave, on Monday.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is my obituary-post for one of the best artists of this wonderful country, Morocco.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> May the peace of God and His blessings and forgiveness be his for an eternity. Amen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Allah Yerhamou.</i> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Abderrahmane (R) with Nass El-Ghiwane - ناس الغيوان.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Abderrahmane 'Paco' Kirouj - عبدالرحــمن باكـو:</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />Paco was born into a very poor
family that included his father musician in 1948 in </span><span style="font-size: small;">Essaouira</span><span style="font-size: small;"> town ('the City of
Wind', or the homeland of Moroccan Gnawa; </span><span style="font-size: small;">a city that sits on the Atlantic Ocean in western Morocco - الصويرة</span><span style="font-size: small;">), in Marrakesh, </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">Tensift-Al Haouz</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> in the Sidi-Kawki
district where he began playing his <i>santir</i> there being taught a few tricks of the trade by his father Si Kirouj.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> His first starting steps at having any musical career in a place as
head-turningly full of hard competitiveness as what Morocco in the 60's was, were taken in 1964
when he learned to master the craftsmanship of making the <i>santir</i> (also
called the <i>hajhouj</i>/<i>guembri</i>) at the hands of a </span><span style="font-size: small;">Maâlem (or, master-player. Note: it's rumoured to have been </span><span style="font-size: small;">Maâlem </span>Benthami<span style="font-size: small;">, or Asattam, but it isn't quite sure)</span><span style="font-size: small;"> in
Marrakesh, using his hands to work the brittle <i>'ar'ar </i>wood which
this grandiose-filled, two-stringed musical instrument is usually made from.<br /> </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">One of the earliest pictures of <br />Paco with Jil Jilala.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As a young man, Paco started traveling from one town to another outside </span><span style="font-size: small;">Essaouira, meeting small bands of music enthusiasts like himself, or </span><span style="font-size: small;">those small<i> ferqat/majmoua't</i> - (فرقات/مجموعات)</span><span style="font-size: small;">
made from a handful of hippie-influenced, long-haired young Moroccans who were trying to play a different sound than what's being offered inside or outside Morocco. These travels took him in 1966 to Britain to play as part of the psychfest, experimental troupe The Living Theatre (where he met his future wife, Christine and later in </span><span style="font-size: small;">Essouria</span><span style="font-size: small;">, Jimi Hendrix who jammed with Paco in the late 60's much to the deplorement of the old-school players of Gnawa).<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This rebel scene was at its height meanwhile in Casablanca when he returned there around 1968. A budding group saw him play and took interest in
his playing, instantly because they were looking for a new instrument to add to their
repertoire: Jil Jilala.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> They sang in front of King Hassan-II himself with Paco
playing his <i>santir</i> there, sweating rock-sized beads of sweat as he
entered the trance-like state of <i>jadba</i>. The King was very impressed and the band became the talk of whole town.<br /></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nass El-Ghiwane's early line-up in 1974.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Soon,
the group issued many songs with Paco playing the <i>santir</i> like <i>Liklam
Lemrassa</i>, <i>Liyam T'nadi</i>, <i>Ha El-A'ar Bouyah</i>, etc... But, alas,
the musical wavelengths of both Paco and the rest of Jil Jilala didn't quite match so well: at one recording session, he didn't agree on the songs' beat that other Jil Jilala's members didn't
see anything wrong with. So, he left the recording studio at once mid-session and never looked back after staying a whole year
playing with what was then the best Moroccan neo-traditionale group of that time. This was utter nuttiness.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nass El-Ghiwane's Early Line-Up: (R-L) L'Arabi Batma, <br />Abdel-Aziz Al-Taheri, </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: xx-small;">Boujam</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: xx-small;">i</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">, Mahmoud Al- Sâadi, Omar Al-Sayed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Moulay Abdel-Aziz Taher who was also the main member and <i>santir</i>-player of another struggling group left his band, and </span><span style="font-size: small;">the leader and founder of this Jilala-rival band (Boujam</span><span style="font-size: small;">i)</span><span style="font-size: small;"> having seen Paco play with them several times,
insisted on having Paco as a replacement for Abdel-Aziz (Note: they basically swapped places: Taher went to join Jilala and Paco, Ghiwane. Also, funny thing's they both almost looked the same at that time according to some Moroccan historians), and even called him by what he used to call everyone in his group with a "<i>hada El-Ghiwane</i>", or 'this Ghiwane'. Paco himself couldn't
believe his luck when </span><span style="font-size: small;">Boujam</span><span style="font-size: small;">i</span> came and asked him to join his group, officially. He said in one interview that, "to me,
Boujami was the epitome of Moroccan music." Paco left Marrakesh without a
blink and went to Casablanca to play and rehearse with Nass El-Ghiwane the very next day. It's said that
the other members of Jil Jilala woke up and couldn't find him anywhere: he
just left without a trace, or even a note.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">But, he was
there, on stage: this young, brown-skinned man with his shaggy hair; one who
was later called 'The White Gnawaist' because usually <i>santir</i>-players were all dark-skinned. Paco gave Nass El-Ghiwane a new breath of fresh-air, especially when they started recording and playing their first song written and composed together <i>Gheir Khoudouni</i> ('Just Take Me Away': it's my favourite by the way). Other singer and member of the Nass (Omar
Al-Sayed), was let out of his box: Omar's voice
suddenly started to sound so coarse, so manly, and very strong which wasn't the
case before Paco joined the band. That song was filled to hilt with cries,
shouts and heart-rending shrieks against injustices and humane maladies seen in one of Morocco's
'hottest' districts (El-Hay </span><span style="font-size: small;">Al-Mohammadi</span><span style="font-size: small;">), that knew no rest since the days of
the French imperialist invasion of this beautiful, and culturally-rich country, right until the late 80's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">It was
such a new power added to one of the best bands in the world, thanks to
Abderrahmane Paco and his bassy <i>santir</i>. Death took </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">Boujam</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">i</span><span style="font-size: small;"> away before the band saw its
deserving fame, and after years of concert-playing inside and outside of
Morocco, Paco left the band when Al-Arabi Batma died on the second day of February, 1997. He went and settled in his hometown Essouria, finally. The band sang its swan
song one year earlier in 1996 (<i>Koulna Khamsah</i> - We All Are Five), as a memoir of
their friendship. After the breakup of Nass El-Ghiwane, Paco went and started a
band with his two sons, Younis and Yaseen Paco calling it 'The Paco Band' (Ferqat Paco) and at later times they went as 'Paco Ghiwane'. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Paco at his later days.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">His last
days saw him as a poor and very sick old man. The King paid for his treatment for eight years and most of his friends visited him frequently at his house, but he preferred to stay alone. In 2004 he played his last concert at The </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">Essouria Festival of the same year, </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">and
retreated to his Casablancan house to fight illness face-to-face. The
rebel in Paco was as strong as he was in his twenties: He's a self-made genius who fused many
styles long before these days of so-called 'mashups' ever begun. Nass
El-Ghiwane was where his ingeniousness saw a living start with his fellow members
singing together various contradicting styles: Amazigh, Bedouin rhythms, etc. to the accompaniment of his hand-made
<i>santir</i> with its Gnawa sound. Still, their new sound made all the difference in the world.<br /></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: xx-small;">Paco with </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: xx-small;">Gnawa fusion band, The Essouria Birds.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">This man has passed away into another realm; a different world of a ghostly existence now, when the nickname </span><i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tabeeb Al-Ashbah</span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> was one of his most famous that he got called by Jimi Hendrix who visited Paco and referred to his playing and his charisma as 'The Ghost-Doctoring'. Rest in Peace, Paco.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Paco Abderrahmane: 1948-2012.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The first picture of Nass El-Ghiwane<br /> with Paco Abderrahmane, 1973.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">Before the
group was called 'Nass El-Ghiwane' in 1971, it was a theatrical troupe of singing
actors under the auspice of one Al-Tayeb Al-Seddiki; who's the founding father
of the so-called modern music theatre in Morocco in the late 50's and early
60's. After graduating under his tutelage, the band's earliest members named
their selves (in English) 'The New Derviches' (<i>Addaraweesh Al-Judud</i>), and joined efforts
with Seddiki's brother-in-law Abdel-Qader who was working at the Baladi Theatre
at that time, to perform their music-plays around Casablanca. Their first concert/live stage act
was held at a restaurant in that same city (The Nautilus), which was located at
Ein Al-Deyab block, around the year 1966. One of the most amazing things about Nass El-Ghiwane was that their first song ever sung on record was a children poem written by Arab poet Ahmad Shawqi (<i>Kittati Asaghierah</i> - My Little Kitten), and they sang it for a ten-year old boy they saw at one of their live acts in the year 1967 and decided to dedicate the song for just him! Lucky kid. After a few successful acts, the band's manager now,
Al-Tayeb Al-Seddiki, renamed them 'Nass El-Ghiwane': The People of Joy, or
Ambulance. Critics attest that the name of this band had nothing to do with
old, traditional Moroccan music styles such as Gnawa, not until Abderrahmane
Paco joined in 1973 and gave the band a whole new musical tangent to follow as
a spiritual outfit, in addition to a theatrical and political band of singers.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nass El-Ghiwane: Live on stage: <br />The five-member early line-up.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The theatre
roots of Nass El-Ghiwane were very evident long before the band was formed. For
example, </span><span style="font-size: small;">Boujam</span><span style="font-size: small;">i</span><span style="font-size: small;"> had a troupe of his own (called 'Ruwwad Al-Khashaba', or The
Stage's Fans along with El-Yahyaoui, Metraz, Omar Al-Sayed who later became a
member at Nass El-Ghiwane) with Allal Yaala as the sole player, playing only
upon request along with the troupe. Another member, Al-Arabi Batma, used to meet
with </span><span style="font-size: small;">Boujam</span><span style="font-size: small;">i</span><span style="font-size: small;"> and Omar at Seddiki's theatre, but was a member of another
theatre group called 'The Golden Crescent': El-Hilal El-Thahabi. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Moroccan
popular theatre was called at that time 'Al-Bisat' Theatre: The Carpet Theatre because
it was a simplistic, early form of 'fringe' theatre (<i>bisat</i> denotes how 'simple' people used to sit on the floor, or over a carpet-spread, and discuss things, offhandedly). It was also a collective form
of art which combined both singing and acting in a very unique way during those
early hard times in Morocco. Those acts depended mostly on exaggerated hand
movements, symbolism, and loud voices all intermixed with a heavy traditional
heritage music sung in a satirical way. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Boujam</span><span style="font-size: small;">i</span><span style="font-size: small;"> was the 'brain-and-rein' of the new troupe and
he formed what was believed to be, the first <i>café</i>-<i>théâtre</i> in Morocco
around the year 1968. He chose Batma, and Omar as his co-actors, where as he once
said, "The stage will be our field; our union, revolution, and our
revenge!" This is how these young actors and musicians came to the fore in
a small, busy, loud, and politically-charged district in Casablanca (Hay
Al-</span><span style="font-size: small;">Mohammadi</span><span style="font-size: small;">, or simply 'El-Hay' as residents call it).</span><br />
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Al-Muhamady, late 70's.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This district was the thorn in the King's side and a safe haven
for art and revolutionaries made from those poor, young rebels resembling as much an artistic
gathering as that of Haight Ashbury in San Fransisco. It was the 'Jema El-Fina' of the intellectuals, where also workers used to sit and listen to
whatever bands and artists played after a long day's work at night on the narrow blocks of this district. Each 'block' had its
own musical taste and unique flavour: Darb Moulay A-Shareef was famous for the
desert nomadic songs and music, especially those played by the Doubal tribe
known for their <i>Kadrah</i> dance (Omar comes originally from this same tribe), while Hay Asakkien was Ahuach-infested,
and La Farge was strictly Gnawan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The 1967 Arab
armies war with Israel (The Six-Days War) was the spark that sit the whole district on fire and
ever since that time, that place hasn't seen a single minute of rest. Bands started to root for communist-backed Palestinian militias, and socialist/Marxist ideals were the only sanctuary for most workers. Most of
Nass El-Ghiwane members' parents were immigrant workers who fled various wars to settle there at Al-</span><span style="font-size: small;">Mohammadi</span><span style="font-size: small;">: </span><span style="font-size: small;">Boujam</span><span style="font-size: small;">i</span><span style="font-size: small;">'s
father came from a townlet in the south called Tatta, Allal's was from Ouled
Ba'Rhail (his father was also a singer at the famous Al-Hawarah band), as for Al-Arabi's, he came
from Masra' Bin-Abdou (Duwwar A-Sikah, Ouled El-Bou-Zieri), and finally Omar's
father was from the Ait Baha; a Soussian region. The other members
were Moualy Abdel-Aziz Al-Taheri (Marrakesh), M</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">ahmoud Al- Sâadi</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (Sousika,
Al-Mohammadi), and our very own Abderrahmane's father who came from </span><span style="font-size: small;">Essaouira</span><span style="font-size: small;">.<br /><br /> </span><br />
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quick look at each one of those members:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b><span style="color: #990000;">Hgour Boujam</span></b></span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: small;">i:</span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br />Real name:
Ihkour </span><span style="font-size: small;">Boujemâa</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (a.k.a. Ahguir </span><span style="font-size: small;">Boujemâa</span><span style="font-size: small;">, alias Boujmiî)</span><span style="font-size: small;">. He was born in Casablanca in 1944 in a poor district at Al-Mohammadi
called 'El-Chabu' where many local bands used to play their music every Sunday.
He studied in the Union Elementary school, which was built by the residents of
Al-</span><span style="font-size: small;">Mohammadi</span><span style="font-size: small;">, and went to finish his high-school studies at the only Arabic
school there (Thanawyet Al-Azhar), where his love for Arab unity and compassion
for the Palestinian case took stem and roots. Started his acting career
in 1963, and in 1968 he became a professional theatre actor. His fellow members
remember him as a silent, humble open-minded man whose voice resonated in their
memory long after his untimely death on October, the 26<sup style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></sup></span>ᵗʰ<span style="font-size: small;"> in 1974, which put a
stop to his creative career as a singer and an actor. The audience loved </span><span style="font-size: small;">Boujam</span><span style="font-size: small;">i</span><span style="font-size: small;">. Some rumors circled around of him being poisoned to death by secret
police, but his close friends know that he might have died because of a chronic
ulcer he had and ignored until it was too late.<br /><br /><br /> </span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: small;">Al-Arabi
(L'Arabi/L'rabi) Batma:</span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br />He was born
in Casablanca in 1947. A writer by birth, his first brush with the arts was as
part of an amateur band of theatre-lovers called Ferqat Al-Huwah Al-Bedhawyah,
and in 1969 he went professional at the famous Baladi Theatre in Casablanca.
He was a rebel who got himself a month sentence in jail after the infamous March, 1965 riots, but he's the band's most charismatic member: alongside his beautiful Chaouian voice that set him apart from the rest of the members of Nass
El-Ghiwane, he was a poet and a comedian. After the death of </span><span style="font-size: small;">Boujam</span><span style="font-size: small;">i</span><span style="font-size: small;">, his star
risen, and became like a 'godfather' figure to the rest of the group, writing
most of their songs. He was known to his friends as a loner, and a
solitude-lover who spent the last days of his life writing his autobiography.
Two of his books spoke volumes about his loneliness and inner pain: one was
named 'Al-Raheel' (The Departure), while his last was 'Al-Alam' (The Pain). He
was quoted once admitting that, "Art has tortured me all of my life."
He died on the 7</span>ᵗʰ<span style="font-size: small;"> of February in 1997 from cancer.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br />Allal was
born in 1941, in Casablanca. At his younger years, he worked as a musician
with some orchestras and in 1960 was able to write music for some amateur
plays, finally settling to join the Baladi Theatre (Municiapl Theatre) with </span><span style="font-size: small;">Boujam</span><span style="font-size: small;">i</span><span style="font-size: small;">, Al-Arabi and
Omar Al-Sayed. He mastered so many instruments (Violin, qanoun, <i>ghita</i>, <i>l'outa</i>r,
oud and his characteristic banjo), and was nicknamed by his fellow Ghiwane
members as the 'walking orchestra'. His friends admit that he was a bit of a
weirdo, moody all the time, sometimes staying silent for no apparent reason in front of cameras or during interviews,
but one who's musically talented so much as to keep up with the band if it
slipped during a concert— he was the anchor of the whole band and is still living today.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br />Born in
1947, in Casablanca. His family was a poor, Moroccan one: his father was a
hard-working man, and his mother was of a bedouin origin. He didn't finish
school, and went instead to sell lemon juice on the streets of Casablanca,
and sometimes worked as a '<i>shaffar</i>' (knife-sharpener), as he admitted later in his life. He's known to have been a petty thief at his younger years and a very lazy student,
to boot. He joined a theatre troupe ('Ruwwad Al-Khashabah') in 1963, and in 1967
quit to become a professional actor at Al-Jaouq Al-Jahawi (The Tribal
Orchestra). Before forming Nass El-Ghiwane with </span><span style="font-size: small;">Boujam</span><span style="font-size: small;">i</span><span style="font-size: small;">, he dabbled in few
television stints and had a mediocre film career that both weren't successful. The Moroccan media didn't like him, too. He's known as the quasi-manager of the band, and for forty years or more was able to keep it as a tight unit during the line-up changes it witnessed. He's
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<span style="font-size: small;">From chaâbi,
<i>mawrouth</i>, Andalussian, and traditional <i>mawal</i> rhythms and Moroccan <i>malhoun</i> beats known all over Morocco, Nass
El-Ghiwane took a turn to the real 'deep' roots of Moroccan music. Some of the
band's music can border on the Sufist, stemming from their <i>zar</i>-like <i>hadra</i> and
Paco's trancenedntalia as he played with closed eyes on stage (which got him
the nickname of <i>Al-Majthoub</i>: 'The Possessed One'), taking for the first time this
strictly-religious style outside of its medium of Sufist <i>zaouiya</i> into the open
stage, and turning such religious states open for all to see in a
'living-theatre'-like experience.<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Paco's music was Gnawan, but it also played
perfectly well alongside other instruments that have no religious correlations and were much
looked down by the general Moroccan populace such as <i>hazaz</i> (Hamdouchi, known to
be a famous street beggar's instrument), t'bila (Essaoui, noisy instrument
which was played mainly by women at private parties), and the Atlas bandir (a
shiekhat-only instrument that was also, one of the most despised by true classic
musicians instrument), all driven by the repetitive beat of the banjo (non-Arabic) with its metallic
sound which, as a whole, took the band into otherworldly levels.<br /> </span></div>
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Lyrics-wise, the band had always inserted, cryptically-coded
revolutionary messages that only a smart listener would get, and thus was so
close to the street man and the intellectual more than the richer, high-class ones. So-called '<i>Libtanah</i>',
or metonymy was heavily used in their poems and lyrics, in addition to playing the usual <i>chaâbiyat</i> that have a very long
history with Moroccan music as a whole like <i>aita</i>, <i>malhoun</i>, <i>abeidat al-rami</i>
(Eissoua Al-Hadra), <i>sahrawi</i>, sufist religious tunes, <i>sharki</i>, etc. all the way
to Arab nationalistic songs, anti-capitalist 'cryptunes', and African
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;">Hagour </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Boujam</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">i</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"> (vocals, bendir), L'Arabi Batma (vocals, t'bila, tamtam), Omar Al-Sayed
(vocals, daadou', bandir), Allal Yaala (vocals, lute, </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;">santira/banjo</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;">), Moulay Abdel-Aziz Taheri
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bendir), L'Arabi Batma (vocals, t'bila, tamtam), Omar Al-Sayed (vocals, daadou', bandir),
Moulay Abdel-Aziz Taheri (vocals, guembri), Mahmoud Al-Saâdi (vocals,
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bendir), L'Arabi Batma (vocals, t'bila, tamtam), Omar Al-Sayed (vocals, daadou', bandir),
Moulay Abdel-Aziz Taheri (vocals, guembri), Allal Yaala (vocals, lute, </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;">santira/banjo</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;">).</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;">Hagour </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Boujam</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">i </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(vocals, bendir), L'Arabi Batma (vocals, t'bila, tamtam), Omar Al-Sayed
(vocals, daadou', bandir), Allal Yaala (vocals, lute, santira/banjo), Abderrahmane Paco
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="color: #783f04;">(1974-1993)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;">L'Arabi Batma (vocals, t'bila), Omar Al-Sayed (vocals, bandir), Allal Yaala (vocals, lute, </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;">santira/banjo</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;">), Abderrahmane Paco (vocals, guembri).</b></span></div>
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poems and shouts from the most intractable recesses of the bane and burden
one experiences by being a human brings to us: we are humans, and regardless of how we live, or if we
die... we should never lose touch of that side which bands like Nass El-Ghiwane sang about and tried to immortalise through such loving, heartful, soulful
singers and musicians like Abderrahmane Paco and his friends who sang and kept burning inside them
like a lighted coal full of passion for love, freedom, and truth.<br /><br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This here is an obituary for a unique singer, too who
refused to live normally like he was just another number and yes, he suffered
for that. Paco was a great man, really. If you can't feel it within your entire
being, then you have lost your modern souls. </span><span style="font-size: small;">His
critics were too many to count, but he was a man of a pure soul, and never gave in to their pressure even
when he accepted the presence of many of a western fan (considered a sacriligious act around Gnawa circles as they do not allow non-Muslims to go to the <i>hadra</i> unwashed, etc.), including a
British 'Christine', who played with him on stage as part of the 'Living Theater' band, and later he proved his critics wrong when they both married and stayed in
London for a while (they had a daughter from that union who still lives
in Britain with her mother). But, being the true adamant and hard-headed Gnawaist, he divorced
her and returned to live in Morocco; where his beloved homeland and its wonderful music were waiting for him to continue to play and master. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">A few days ago Paco might have died there
in his house, after fighting a long spill of chronic hypertension that left him paralysed for five
years or so, unable to move or speak after a long and thriving career as a musician, but most importantly, as a human soul that refused to give up to conformity. Paco will live in our memories and minds as this wandering ambulant singer and <i>santir</i>-player whose life can never stop with death.<br /><br />Rest in ever-lasting peace, </span><span style="font-size: small;">Maâlem</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Paco.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /><br />And yes, long live your '<i>wanderful</i>' soul.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">Audio:</span></b><br />Almost all known albums by Abderrahmane Paco (along with Nass El-Ghiwane, or those of him recorded as a solo artist or with other bands) are known to most of his fans. Even those who casually listen to Gnawa music know a few records by heart. So, instead of uploading the usual stuff, I decided to upload only the rare, early live cuts from the band's theatre active years, the first pressings/recordings and rare live cuts like the famous Fox Cinema concert in 1972 (a couple of very rare tracks), plus many <i>sahras </i>with Nass El-Ghiwane. The quality of most of these records is weak because they've been lying in neglect for years, or were radio-recorded songs that were put straight to cassette by ardent Moroccan fans. <br /><br />Do enjoy, nonetheless these rare tracks that span over three hours! <br /><span style="color: #741b47;">-</span></span><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?18ywj3nt54wwfr9">Nass El-Ghiwane - Old, Rare Live Recordings And Cuts</a>.<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #741b47;">-</span></span><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?9lzb89a8qnx3n75">Nass El-Ghiwane - Old Cassettes from the 70's</a>.<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #741b47;"></span><br /><br />As for Abderrahmane himself, I shall upload the first song that he sang with Nass El-Ghiwane (Gheir Khoudouni - غير خدوني) as a separate file for those of you who enjoy this all-time favourite song of mine. It's a beautiful and strong song recorded here as Mono. <br />Dig it:</span><br />
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As a bonus, here's one of the band's earliest theatre acts 'Al-Harraaz' الحراز, 1967. A short clip taken from some TV footage of that satirical play (Arabic, no subtitles). Enjoy:<br />
<span style="color: #741b47;">-</span><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?v7hyb42k5v94c9q">Al-Harraz Play, 1967 - Nass El-Ghiwane</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #741b47;">-YouTubia:</span><br /><a href="http://www.findmaroc.com/morocco-music/listen-to-nass-elghiwane">Nass El-Ghiwane video collection</a>.<br /><br /><br />F.N.: Read Tim Abdellah's wonderful <a href="http://moroccantapestash.blogspot.com/2012/10/goodbye-abderrahmane-paco.html">audiobituary</a> for Paco: There are a couple of cassettes that you can download directly from there. Also, check his site for more of Paco's wonderful solo music and/or his with Nass El-Ghiwane. Also, Ted Swedenburg has written another obit for Paco <a href="http://swedenburg.blogspot.com/2012/10/abderrahmane-paco-gnawi-member-of-nass.html">here</a> and <a href="http://swedenburg.blogspot.com/2012/10/more-on-paco-rip-and-nass-el-ghiwane.html">here</a> in his own blog (HawgBlawg). <br /><br />And, for those who like a bit of poetry (in Arabic only), this blog-site <a href="http://ghiwanerom.blogspot.com/">here</a> offers some of Nass El-Ghiwane's best poem-songs ever. Be sure to try and read them even if with the aide of a Translator. <br /><br /><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Update 12.06.2K12:</span></span><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?d7xadwwoyo7v9ki"><br />Here</a>'s an MS-Word file with all Nass El-Ghiwane's song-lyrics in Arabic plus, the song <i>L'Hamami</i> (My Companion), in two different versions all in the same file.<br /><br />Dig.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br />See ya with our next post about strictly... Gnawa. It'll be wonderful.<br /><br /><i>Bislamah!</i><br /><br /><br />H.H.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Greetings everyone,<br /><br />Summer is already past us, and autumn is almost gone, too. There has been a lot of things shakin' with me as of late, and I really couldn't post any new music here at farkin' all.<br /><br />Good news is that, I am coming back; full-force, revvin' the back burners now of my jets as there are about a ton of good sounds waiting to be explored right here on The Audiotopia.<br /><br />Be sure that the Gnawa post is the first thing on my To-Post list, and right now, I will begin again to write/rewrite it as a whole piece after this long, three-month hiatus. It's enormous and will include some rare music files in its making.<br /><br />On another vein, and through these last three months or so, I was (as a fellow blogster myself), introduced to many good albums/ LPs/ CCs/ CDs... you jus' name these, babes... upped by the active community of Blogger.com. And, to those guys I am more than thankful. This blog here is just my way of showing some gratitude for music-enthusiasts' hard work and dedication.<br /><br />I also want to inform most of you who like Middle-eastern music that I upped an album <a href="http://theaudiotopia.blogspot.com/2012/04/qat-coffee-qambus-check-this-out.html">here</a> that was requested by an Anon. user who's Arabic (my best guess is that he is a he, and that he's from Lebanon), and wanted to download the rare <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?jxkgfn6ky51k9qu">Qat, Coffee & Qambus</a> LP. It's now yours to DL, too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lastly, I hope you're liking the new, slightly-moderated look of my blog.<br /><br />You dig now.<br /><br /><i>Salutashuns!</i><br /><br /><br />H.H.</span></div>
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Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-57561566415580802942012-09-24T12:34:00.000+03:002012-09-24T12:34:29.375+03:00Great News! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Hello again. <br /><br />It's been quite a long while of being quiet. Yes, I'm breaking this three-month silence to announce the return of one of the most eclectically-exciting and musically-rich blogsites there ever was, or will be... <a href="http://turkishpsychedelicmusic.wordpress.com/">Turkish Psychedelic Music!</a></span></span><br /><br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This is V.2.0 of the previous blog redressed in truly wonderful psychedelicious motifs and full of the meticulous, painstaking work of its owner who refused to just wither away into e-neglect.<br /><br /> The new TPM2 has</span><span class="st" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> — </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">needless to say, the same music files that were suddenly lost as I've mentioned in a <a href="http://theaudiotopia.blogspot.com/2012/05/continuiance-of-blagging-vs-blogging.html">previous post</a>, and those lost gems of Turkish music from the 60's and the 70's are reappearing one by one there. So, do not forget to drop by at Turkish Psychedelic Music 2 and leave a word of encouragement for its owner. <br /><br />As for my delayed post (Gnawa Music):<br />I haven't been working on anything blog-wise as of late, and don't know if I would be able in a month from now. But, here for the spirit of keeping on keeping on, babes! </span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">H.H.</span></div>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Négre du Soudan - Algérie. <br />Tirage Albuminé Picture (circa 1875).</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Profile by, José Taprio y Baro.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Le Musiciens. (Sketch).<br />By, Dehodencq Edmé Alexis Alfred.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Les Musiciens.<br />Painting by, El-Khafi Moulay Youssef (1969).</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Etude d'Un Joueur de Petites Timbales Avec Danseurs Au Déxieme Plan.<br />Sketch And Outline by, Dehodencq Edmé-Alexis-Alfred.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Musicien Marocain (Sketch).<br />By, Dehodencq Edmé Alexis Alfred.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Chanteur Nègre/ Musicien Nègre.</span><br style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Paintings by, E. Marquette.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Painting by, José Tapiro y Baro.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mendiant Marocain. Postcard.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nègre Danseur. Postcard.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nègre Musicien . Postcard.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A Gnawa Band. Photograph (circa 1920s).</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A Dancing Troupe. Photograph (circa 1910s).</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">D'Jemma El-Fina, 1930s.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A Collection of Gnawa Musicians Performing in A Concert, 1940s.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Négro Musiciens - Meknès. Postcard.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Musicien Masqué de Biskra - (circa 1880s).</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Musiciens Arabes.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Danseur Nègre - Touggourt. Postcard.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Musicien Marocain.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Mendiant Marocain. Autochrome.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Nègro du Soudan. Autchrome.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: xx-small;">Drawings Taken from a 1930's French Magazine: (L) La Danse du Nègre/ (R) Mannequin Grotesque.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Tam-Tam Nègre/ Comic Postcard from Algiers.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Danse de Nègres Au Crotales. Postcard.<br />Painting by, J.F. Bouchor.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Old Picture of Street Gnawa Musicians (circa 1920s).</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Baba Ali (circa 1890).</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Musicien Nègre - Algerie (circa 1880s).</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Danse Familé. Photo-book (circa 1870s).</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Danse Nègres (circa 1870s-80s).</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Gnawa. Painting by, Rachid Bouskri. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: xx-small;">A Painting by, Joseph Félix.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;"><i style="color: #bf9000;">is a look at a past full of vivid colours in<br />old Morocco, Algiers, and Tunis. <br />Gnawa music has always been a secret kept alive for years.<br />Only two-hundred years ago, eastoxified Orientalists<br />(who came mostly from France and Italy) tried to unearth it.<br />Regardless of the 'ethknowlegde' of those...<br />there's a huge misunderstanding of all that's 'Gnawa'.<br />In my coming post, we shall take a deep look at it from<br />different points of thought; dissect its mythical worlds<br />one by one with careful detail, and conclusiveness. <br /><br />Next on the Audiotopia will be another pic-post:<br />And another one-hundred P.P.P.s of Tambourine Players.<br />Dear reader, if you think that these pictures are too much,<br />then allow me here, 'cause I am sure a very huge picture-post<br />with almost 1500 pictures will make you change your mind.<br />I'll be 'poasting' (boast-posting) it after the Gnawa one.<br />I guess words can become useless sometimes. <br /><br />Please, as a blogster co-pallie: forgive the belatedness! <br />Soon, and as Ramadan begins, I shall finish the Gnawa Post.<br /><br /><br />Always have good time... all the time! <br /><br />Ciao ciao!<br /><br /><br />H.H.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Greetings again.<br /><br />"<i>Waiting for G'naouat</i>", 'Waiting for The Gnawas'. Nice title donchy'all think? I know, I know... it's been ages and so long overdue to present the Gnawa post, but really for me 'ere it's also been one hectically busy week after another, and I couldn't make even half of it till now.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: xx-small;">Un Musicien. Qaraqeb Player.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The Tambourine Player - Francesco de Maria.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Harem Dance - Paul Alexandre Alfred Leroy.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A Musical Interlude In The Harem - Fabbio Fabbi.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Musicians - Giulio Rosati.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Harem Dance - Giulio Rosati.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Harem Girl with Tambourine - Joseph Bernard.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Dance of The Almeh,<span class="rg_ctlv"> Jean-Leon Gerome.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: xx-small;">Harem Dance. Unknown Artist.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">A Harem Scene.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Tambourine Player. Postcard.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(Autochrome).</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Types de Soudanais. 1907-1908.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Musicien Soudanais.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Gnawa Musician in a trance. circa 1910s.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Musiciens Arabes.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Gnawa <i>t'bal</i> player. circa 1920s.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A group of Gnawa street performers. circa 1930s.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Qaraqeb</i> (<i>kourakeb</i>) player.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Moroccan man. Postcard. 1920s.</span></td></tr>
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</div>Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-85125109001535787402012-06-27T11:17:00.001+03:002012-06-27T11:17:34.390+03:00A Postponment: The Gnawa Post Partially Paused.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Yes, dear readers... <br /><br />The Gnawa post that I promised you isn't getting near the post-phase anywhere. It's a very huge paper, full of information, interdiction, academia, pet theories, pictures... you name it. <br />Making it so fast and hastily would render the whole post as null. And, maybe that's why I came here to write these words, in hopes that, maybe you can be patient with me.<br /><br />On another vein, and this I say with a bittle grievance: How come no-one's interested enough in contributing something that so far, I haven't received a single email... save from a Cambridge Ph.D. music student who had to apologise for not being a specialist on the subject (her name's Tal, and she specialises in Child Music Theories)?<br /><br />This is an age of conglomerates, alliances, and bound efforts we're living today. I am positive that when more than one works on anything, togetherness makes it better. In the Arab world, we have a saying that goes, "a single hand does not clap." But, I guess I shall go at it alone. It isn't help I am looking for but variety of points of view.<br /><br />Cutting a long one short, I shall apologise myself here to you adamantly, for being late in finishing it, and ask you to stay tuned in the meantime. In case some of you want to write anything... I repeat, anything on the subject of Gnawa, do so please. You can find my email on my Blogger profile.<br /><br /><br />I leave you all now with a teaser<i> photorama</i> of some Gnawa musicians (consider this as a "sorry-for-being-late!" photo-statement), plus some postcard pictures of Moroccan women (theme: tambourine players) part of a very huge picture-post that I amassed from collecting rare, old postcards from Morocco, Algiers, and Tunis.</span></span><br /><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Now, after you've enjoyed these pictures... all I can say is the following:<br /><br />The Gnawa post will be entertaining and very impressive. New-found knowledge is not easy to come by, trust me. And, in case you wanted it any faster, you could've Goo'd 'Gnawa' and read about it at any webshite that has zero-percent knowledge to offer any of yinz.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">So, be patient with me, aite babes?</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Rite awn.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">H.H.</span></div>Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-55274499067388365552012-06-15T05:39:00.003+03:002012-06-18T23:37:14.412+03:00Mysticisms, Musijins, And Musical Ecstasies Around The Arab World: Gnawa Music, And Tarab. Next on The Audiotopia...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Heylo, 'gain.<br /><br />Damn straight, we're coming back soon with a new post...<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The new post will be of two parts: one designated to introduce you to Gnawa music complete with a full protra-introductory essay on its origins, 'colours', sartorialism, and daemonology (or, what I call, the '<i>Musijins</i>': Musician <i>Djinns</i>).<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And, the other will be a lengthy dissertation on Tarab and its earliest manifestations around the Arab world with a liberal invistigation on how it's related to alter-states of <i>musicstasy</i> (musical ecstasy), and neuro-physiology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">These two posts will discuss in detail both musical genres that are Middle-east-specific, taken from many various aspects: Musical Historism, </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-weight: normal;">Musical Stratigraphy, Musical Medicinalism, Organology, Math-Music, </span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">Phonosophical; Theosophical, and Soteriological</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> Ethnomusicology, Daemonology and the Ecstatic States aligned with Gnawa and Tarab.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">You're going to be introduced to these two musical styles as if you've never read about them before, on any source be it on-web, or off. I will open a vista for anyone who has anything to write on these styles if yer interested, intrigued, or happen to be into doing so by any all means. Write me an e @ hythammer at hotmail dot com.<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">I don't want to go on with any verbiage prolixity in 'ere, but this two-part post will have zero, or few sound files to it. I guess after the Mohammed Abdou's <a href="http://theaudiotopia.blogspot.com/2012/06/mohammed-abdou-arabs-singer-saudi.html">last one</a>... most of you are still being busy DL-ing the 100+ album files, or getting to know/read/finish that lengthy post. I am also glad that most of you have really liked it. Thanks for all the comments.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />Do make sure to enjoy the posts that are already here in the meantime, and stay tuned for more and more as the posts here will only grow in number, audio-quality, subjects' sophistry, and data. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><br />Now, allow me to take my time at writing it (which isn't an easy task, believe me...), but I promise to post it as soon as I finish. It will be here on the Audiotopia within three-to-four days, hopefully. Remember: you can join in. I 'ave no bawns 'bout it. Just 'e' me I.Y.I. (If You're Interested).<br /><br />Take care, and have fun.<br /><br /><br /><i>Gotsa dip nows! Woosh!</i><br /><br />H.H.</span></div>
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</div>Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-87673843824603185762012-06-12T11:35:00.000+03:002012-06-17T17:56:45.140+03:00Mohammed Abdou: The Arabs' Singer (Saudi Arabia's Michael Jackson sans the dance)?. Special Ode-To Yazeed.net. - مــحــمـد عــبـدو.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>Asalamo Alaikoum</i>, الـسلام عـلـيكم... everybody.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And welcome south of the Jordanian border for we're about to visit one of the most bizarre yet amazing countries in the whole world. Known for its deserts, oil and rigid Islamic traditions, Saudi Arabia isn't what the average Joe-Blow who resides ideally in the west think it might be: it is a country that has witnessed one of the most dramatically rapid social changes in the history of mankind; from nomadic people who used to dwell in the desert, to skyscrapers-inhabiting, tech-dependent, educated modern people who went to the U.S. and the U.K. to study in the 70's and 80's during the height of the Oil Era as their counterpart Westerners had T.V. commercials that heralded how they were, "<i>Bringin' Oil Back Home!</i>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Talking about deserts... well, summer is already back again banging so hard at Jordan's doors. It's hotter than Dutch-love 'ere, I tell ya: temps can reach a spark-inducing 110</span> ºF <span style="font-size: small;">which can leave ya swimming in yer own damn clothes in a sea of sweat. Saudi Arabia sets right there at the south of Jordan, near Egypt. In the past, the two countries were one and the same. There were no borders, and people had mixed familial ties and closer relations in a better, far-gone past. </span>Bad blood ran between the two nations (thanks to imperialist contriving plans on the side of the Brits), and Arab oil states enjoyed an unprecedented continuity of wealth to a
degree unknown since the 1950's Boom Generation in America while Jordan is still struggling as a 'gate' nation of mostly immies: Palestinian, Iraqi, and now... Syrian war immigrants). <br />
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This rising geo-political status and the large oil reserves that were explored at the early 20th Century, coupled with America's intervention in the region in the early 30's (Read these <a href="http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hstpaper/saudi.htm">files</a> and this <a href="http://www.aramcoexpats.com/articles/2008/09/a-conversation-with-thomas-lippman/">interview</a> to get a closer look at how it all started) created together the moniker 'Islamic Terrorism' in the 80's which has a direct link to
the rise of militant Islam and extreme Islamism all for the sole benefit of a few 'players' in this game of death and greed. From the Iran crisis, to the Afghan-Arab "Bin Ladens", right to these new 'Arab Spring' days of so-called creative chaos held in the name of Democracy... there are going to be no winners in this bid of doom*.</div>
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(*Read further the last part of this post where I discuss the
origins of petrodiplomacy and powers behind the role of the west in
the Arabian Gulf).<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Anyways, blog-wise: it's been well over a whole week
since the last <i>debke</i>-fest posts that I was glappy it had a posit e-reaction from most of yinz, dearest readers. I was forced off blogistan, because I've been busy doing some other stuff. Still, all the while adding something to this post, writing it in inch-meal with much care and flair. </span>I set my intent and hopes high to make this post a very extraordinarily special one, because of two reasons: one, the wealth of today's singer in terms of his musical works and achievements and his legacy among other Arab singers, and two: the wealth of his country in terms of petro-chemicals that played a major role in shaping the fates of many million Arabs throughout the region and not just Saudi Arabia and the many hidden secrets that still lie buried under tonnes of sand that I wanted more people to know about.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Afghanistani '<i>Taliban</i>' in the 80's.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It will get even hotter tonight, trust me, as we're about to unravel these secrets little known since the early days of Saudi Arabia's beginnings but only after we discuss the country's music and heritage and read afterwards about
one of the most exciting 'old-new' Arab pop singers who came from the Arabian Peninsula, or <i>Al-Jazeerah</i> <i>Al-Arabiyah</i> (الجزيرة العربية) as it's known before it became this vast hotbed for terrorist agendas bred and fed by American and British intelligence (some writers call it "Terroristan", "Trashcanistan", and the "Terroritory"). I wanted this post to be special so that people all over the globe and not just the Arab world in particular, may start to know more about Mohammed Abdou and his country sans any bullshack and Anglo-'Merrican political ballyhoo.<br /></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Singer Abdel-Halim Hafez.</span></td></tr>
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Mohammed Abdou's name rings big in contemporary Arabic music circles in the
Middle-east and North-Africa (MENA) region, and in the last 40 years or so, it became synonymous with giants like Mohammed Abdel-Wahab, Farid Al-Atrache, Umm-Kalthoum, and Abdel-Halim
Hafez. Possibly, and for the record, he's there among the best. Again, this is just my humble-pie attempt to look at Mohammed Abdou's life and
accomplishments from the very early beginnings of his career in the late 50's, right through these
current times where he still holds some concerts around Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E., mostly. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A screen-shot of Yazeed.net h/p.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I also wrote this post as a dedication to fellow Saudi blogger Yazeed (owner of
<a href="http://yazeed.net/">yazeed.net</a>), whose blog has one of the best attempts at documenting and
presenting Middle-eastern pop singers, poets, artists, and culture. In all earnest <span class="st" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">—</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> and, 'aving said this much, I should first introduce you to the music of this vast, arid place called once <i>Arabia Felix</i>. And, then we shall get a closeup look at our singer's career, music, and life
in extensive detail.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">One of <a href="http://yazeed.net/">Yazeed</a>'s Mohammed Abdou cassettes.</span></td></tr>
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The post is going to be so gigantic to say the least (YHBW: You Have Been Warned), because Mohammed Abdou's life and accomplishments
were of sheer enormity and grandeur. Also, this timeless land of legends, myths, taboos, and mysticism (Saudi Arabia) is worth its musical salts because there is an abundance of singers and musical styles still undocumented in a fair way in that strato-theocratic moat-kingdom where art and music are looked down on as mere, base forms of anti-Islamic, or <i>haram</i> manifestations.<br /> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Old map of the Arabian Peninsula or 'Jazeerat Al-Arab'. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Abu Abdou's career was global: he went from Tuhama in 1964, to Hay Al-Nazlah in Jeddah and then bang to Rome, Italy, right to Beirut, Lebanon, and Cairo in Egypt... London, Geneva, Washington D.C. and L.A. and back to Jeddah again in 2004 where he gave a couple of concerts he called <i>Fough Ham Al-Sahab/Kawkab Al-Ard </i>(فوق هام السحاب/كوكب الأرض - Above The Clouds/Planet Earth) signalling that he wasn't just the Arabs' Singer as he was nicknamed by Tunisian president Al-Habib Bo'rqibah in the mid-80's but this global phenomena that deserves his own separate blogpage at the Audiotopia.<br /> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Fahd A'afat<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">That nickname alone spells it all in bold font as our singer was also given other nicknames; one as the 'Godfather of Tarab', and because of his similarity in his looks when he was young to M.J., some fans called him the Michael Jackson of Saudi Arabia. Writer, journo, and famous Saudi poet Fahd A'afat (فهد عافت) wrote many poems for Mohammed Abdou, and in this short poemlet below called <i>'Umniat'</i>: أمنيات, or 'Wishes' he </span><span style="font-size: small;">nicked him the 'Golden Legend': </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />Wishes - أمنيات</span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;">:<br style="color: #bf9000;" /><i style="color: #bf9000;">"He is a legend made of gold (thahab)</i><span style="color: #bf9000;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">هـو أسـطـورة مـن ذهـب</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>In his past there is </i><i>Tarab</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">في ماضيه طرب<i><br />And his present is bold (</i><i>shaghab)</i></span></span><span class="st"><span dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /> </span></span></span><span class="st"><span dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: x-small;">وفي حاضره شغب</span></span></span><span class="st"><span dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br />His story is too long to be told</i></span></span><span class="st"><span dir="rtl"><br /></span></span><span class="st"><span dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: x-small;">الحديث عنه يطول<br />
</span></span></span><span class="st"><span dir="rtl"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> </i></span></div>
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: x-small;"><i>And I feel tired, and I am getting old.</i></span><span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><span class="st"><span dir="rtl"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: x-small;">وأنا قد أعياني التعب."</span> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">In concert with <i>Al-Ferqa Al-Masyiah</i>, 80's.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Very well said, as his story is really hard to begin to tell. I shall also mention before I start that you're to get tonight over one hundred of Mohammed Abdou's albums made up from most of his famous earlier stuff and live cassettes, in addition to rare recordings and a handful of live concert albums and many <i>jalsah</i> (جلسة: live oud-playing set) ones. So, why not begin by introducing you to the very roots of his music? Let's begin, shall we?</span><br />
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<b style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: small;">Intro:</span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #bf9000;"> The History of Music in Pre-Oil Saudi Arabia.</span></i></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">Saudi Arabia has a history of music that is said to be one of the oldest and first ever recorded in the Arab region. In the period between 1906-1909 a Dutch spy, ethnographer, Islamologist, and Orientalist named </span>C. Snouck Hurgronje (Christiaan Snouck, alias Abdul-Ghaffar)<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"> was commissioned as Indonesia's ambassador of colonies' cultures, and he went to Mecca in Saudi Arabia armed with one of Edison's first wax-cylinder recording devices to record some musicians there and take photographs in the holiest place for Muslims considered as a 'Forbidden' sanctum where foreigners could be killed at first sight. During his visits, he disguised himself as an Arab (Abdel-Ghaffar) in order to mix in with the crowds without getting caught, but later he converted to Islam and married according to some sources many wives (five in total, his last was an Ethiopian woman who got him a child in late 1918). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Snouck Hurgronje (R), as Abdul-Ghaffar (L), early 1900's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">These
records weren't the first Arab records known to ethnomusicologists: Harvard Prof. Benjamin
Gilman's recordings of Javanese music using a phonograph in a theatre in
Ottoman-ruled Istanbul in 1893 are believed to be the first. But,
Snoucke's early wax cylinders that he recorded in the period between 1906
and 1920 were of an exceptional quality and they were all shipped back to Jakarta in Indonesia and from there to the
National Museum of Antiquities (</span><span class="st" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span dir="rtl"><span style="font-size: small;">Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">) in Leiden, south of Holland where that collection still lay there as yet another unpublished artwork of impeccable magnificence and extreme rarity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Technically speaking, these records didn't get past the three-minute limit because the wax cylinders can only take up to three-minute of music on each face. Mostly, they featured some <i>athan</i> (الأذان - prayer call) recorded right from the Mecca mosque (<i>Al-Harram Al-Makki</i> - الحرم المكي), and some Quranic-verse readings by Yemenite reciter and <i>maddah</i> (مداح - adulator) Jaber Ahmad Rizq with some eloquent <i>majrour</i> (مجرور: poetic recitals done in stand-up settings usually at night that can stretch for hours), <i>danat</i> (دانات: mundane, 8/4 music referred to singularly each as a 'pearl' or <i>dana</i> - دانة, that came from the Hijaz region in the heart of the Arabian Peninsula), <i>tazhied</i> (تزهيد: ascetic singing of Islamic verses and poetry), and what is called <i>mejissat ghenayiah </i>or <i>mejass</i> (مجسات/مجس, literally '<i>probes</i>': two, four, six, or seven-couplet poetic verses sung mostly in weddings and special traditional dances).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Old pictures of Mecca in the early 20th century.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />All of these musical styles stem from the olden <i>mawrouth </i>(موروث), and Hijazi <i>mawal</i> and <i>ghazal</i> music which can go back to maybe 800-900 years if not more. The richness of these early recordings was due to the fact that Mecca (and by result, the whole of Saudi Arabia) was the meeting point where many <i>hajeej</i> or <i>hujjaj</i> (حجاج/حجيج - Pilgrims) went there to fulfill their religious duty known as the <i>Hajj</i>. The <i>Hajj</i> season made it possible for many Yemenis and Indonesians who were traders-by-nature to stay at Mecca and open their shops there, choosing it as their final home. Most of them came from Hadramout (حضرموت) and San'a in Yemen, and Java (جاوة) Indonesia and many Saudis still have strong Yemeni roots (I once lived with a bunch of Yemeni-Saudis, and one guy had 6 different passports! They were cool, fo'reals) which is really the reason why this land was so rich in music.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Saudi Bedouin.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Saudi music, or for that matter, the whole of the Arabian Peninsula or <i>Jazeerah </i>music is not documented at all: it is next to impossible to find any old, authentic records (known as <i>istwanat hajari</i> - إسطوانات حجرية) of that early period. The styles are hardly documented, too and nothing is known about the origins of most of the old singing styles. Some of the old dances are still practiced today which vary from <i>a'ardah</i> - عرضة, <i>daheyya</i> - داحية and <i>sameri</i> - سامري (singing and sword line-dancing styles of bedouin origins known to exist in Jordan as well as Tabouk in northern Saudi Arabia and Najd), to <i>radhi</i> - ردحي, <i>herabi</i> - حرابي (two singing and dancing styles sometimes using weapons like carbine rifles and swords), <i>sahba</i> - صهبة, <i>sana'ani</i> - صنعاني, and <i>rudman</i> - ردمان: joyous <i>tawasheeh </i>singing styles uniquely Yemenite sung based on two maqams; the <i>Rakbi</i>, and <i>Al-Mashawrigh</i> which give out two other sub-maqams, namely; the <i>Husseini</i> and the <i>Bayati Masri</i> and <i>Bayati Souri</i> (Egyptian/ Syrian)</span><span style="font-size: small;">, in addition to many dances and bedouin poetry.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A Saudi bedouin <i>kheimah</i>, or tent, 1950's. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Other <i>maqamat</i> are the <i>Yamani Sika</i>, <i>Saba</i>, <i>Banjakah</i>, <i>Beshaour</i>, <i>Nairouz Kard</i>, <i>Masmoudi, Farah</i>, <i>Fiza</i>, <i>Zinjaran</i>. These <i>maqamat</i> are scales that are sung according to old poetic meters called <i>terough</i> or, <i>tawareegh</i> - </span><span style="font-size: small;">طروق/طواريق,</span><span style="font-size: small;"> that </span><span style="font-size: small;">are said to have come from pre-Islamic days or <i>Jahiliyah</i>. Most of the Arabian Peninsula's poetry is inherited from the pre-Islam poets whose poetry is still read and sung all around the Arab world. The words are written into songs which are again danced to in many various formations, and to many different beats courtesy of two drums especially in </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>a'ardah </i>dance</span><span style="font-size: small;">: <i>takhmier</i> (bigger drums), and <i>tathlith</i> (smaller ones). These drums are usually kept for hours under the scorching heat of the sun to soften the skin before being played (or, sometimes are exposed to bonfire that can have some daemonic correlations to their playing, but this isn't studied). </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A dancing group of Saudi singers.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Other styles came from African origins and the nearby regions like Egypt and Nubia such as the <i>ghajari</i> - غجري (gypsy music), the<i> simsimyah</i> - سمسمية, and <i>khbieti - </i>خبيتي<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span>(the second's based on sea chants sung using the well-known diatonic simsimyah lyre that Sudanese people, Nubians, Jordanians in Aqaba, and Sinai Egyptian gypsies use in their songs, and the latter is sung using a well-formed, upbeat rhythm which grows into a <i>zar</i>-like crescendo as the audience also sometimes join in the singing which is sung by a group of sitting men), and other lesser-known styles like <i>al-hadri</i> - الحضري (men-only <i>majlis</i> singing style that came from the mountainous regions and the desert, or <i>badia</i> based on the <i>majrour</i> singing style), and </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>al-Ounboa'aoui</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"> - الينبعاوي (from Ounboa'a sahel region. This style's also sung using the <i>simsimyah</i>).<br /></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Two Saudis holding<br />a hand-drum. 1900's.</span></td></tr>
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Yemeni music is said to be the oldest in the entire region. Its history can be traced to 8000 years ago way before any civilization on earth had invented a musical characteristic of its own, and it influenced Sudanese music and gave birth in return to almost all African rhythms and musical meters which is where modern Jazz and Blues music came from. The surviving Yemenite styles today that are still being played in Saudi Arabia are the <i>zamil</i>/<i>zoumal</i> - زامل (plural: <i>zawameel</i> - زواميل), which is a responsorial antiphonal singing style, and <i>Yamani Al-Kaf</i> (يماني الكف) that has an accompaniment of hand-clapping to it. Some Yemeni poetry is also sung in Saudi <i>jalsat</i>, or settings and these are often played with oud and qambus.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mecca in 1889.</span></td></tr>
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Sudanese music and dances like the <i>bambila </i>- بامبيلا, <i>tambourah</i> - طمبورة, and<i> al-liwah</i> - الليوة are still played in Saudi Arabia and most of the Jazeerah, too. Sudanese gave Saudis their Afro-drums like the big <i>banto</i>, <i>mesondo</i>, and smaller ones like the <i>batu</i>. Other drums are the <i>mirwas</i> - مرواس (believed to have come from India. This small skin drum is held in a cupping clutch with one hand and is beat with the fingertips of the other in what's known as <i>takseer </i>- تكسير, or fast breaks. It's played by sailors in long pearl-diving journeys and in <i>jalsat</i> of tarab music around the Al-Ahsa region, mostly), and the hand-held, larger <i>mirfa'a</i> - المرفاع drum. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Negro Musicians in Mecca , 1888.</span><br />
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Desert nomads sung mostly without any musical instruments (and, of course, nary a record left by them today which is very sad), 'cept for the <i>rabab</i>/<i>rababa</i>, <i>mihbash</i> or the wooden coffee grind-stick, and the small hand-held cymbals, or <i>nagous</i>. The Saudi bedouin poetry sung using the <i>rababa</i> doesn't vary at all from other bedouin nomads in Jordan, the U.A.E., or Kuwait. The bedouin styles in Saudi Arabia are various but the most famous of these is the <i>al-hadah</i> (الحدا/الحدة) music of camel-driving which has a very slow rhythm to it, alongside the <i>majrour</i> - مجرور which we've discussed in length at Abdo Moussa's post <a href="http://theaudiotopia.blogspot.com/2012/05/abdo-moussa-jordans-leadbelly.html">here</a> and a newer <i>rababa</i>-playing method called <i>sheilah</i>, or <i>sheil</i> (شيلة: literally, 'carrying') that has influences of the <i>oud</i> in it. The <i>jarr </i>(جـر: draws of the bow of <i>rababa</i>-playing style) is often accompanied by many sung, poetic meters like <i>H'jini</i> - هجيني, <i>S'khari</i> - صخري, <i>Mashoub</i> - مسحوب, and the most famous <i>Sameri</i> music which is also known in Saudi Arabia as <i>al-rikbani</i>, or "songs that are sung sitting on one's knees".<br />
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Other forms of singing are the followings: <i>Houti </i>(حوطي: bedouin singing style), <i>el-merrad</i> (المراد: poetic duels, also bedouin in origin), <i>aghany al-bina</i> (أغاني البنا: builder's songs), <i>sawani</i> music (سواني: sung on the <i>Mashoub</i> style when watering camels at the <i>sawani</i> or water wheels), <i>hars</i> or <i>habsha</i> songs (الهرس/الهبشة: wheat-grindstone songs sung to the rhythm of stone grinding or <i>ar-raha</i> - الرحا), raks music (dance songs for both males and females in the bride's room and in the wedding tent-house by males only sung in <i>Sameri</i>).<br />
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Dances vary from one part to another, and they are: <i>Al-Ahl</i>, <i>Al-Malid</i>, <i>Al-A'ayalah</i>, <i>Al-Mizmar</i>, <i>Al-Dan</i>, <i>Tagseirah</i>, <i>Houlu</i>, <i>Jarr Al-Makhouwah</i>, <i>Al-Wannah</i>, <i>Al-Zareef</i>, <i>Al-Tarijh</i>, <i>Al-Taghroudah</i>, <i>Al-Sameri</i>, <i>Harbieyah</i>, <i>Sahbah</i>, <i>Rabkha</i> (or, <i>Darjjah</i>), <i>Al-Rabkha Al-Tuhamiyah</i>, <i>Al-Nahmah</i>, <i>Al-Khatifah</i>, <i>Al-Khutwah</i>, <i>Al-Dammah</i>, <i>Al-A'ardah</i>, <i>Al-A'ardah Al-Janoubiyah</i>, <i>Al-Manaheel</i>, and <i>Al-Semayah</i> singing and line-dancing style that is usually sung at a new-born baby's party.<br />
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On the contrary, and far deeper into the Arabian and the Red seas (Note: Saudi Arabia has a 560-kilometer long eastern shore on the Arabian Gulf, and almost 2000 kilometers on its western shores abutting the Red Sea), pearl-divers and fishermen used various musical instruments on board of their ships as their journeys to reach the best pearl-diving spots took them sometimes months, and thus were the most musically-rich ethnographic group in Saudi Arabian culture. Sea music is so rich and can be considered the most archived genre of all Arabian Gulf music (especially in Bahrain and the U.A.E.). The sailors also danced on their ships as well as on mainland. One of those dances that we've mentioned is <i>al-tambourah</i> or <i>al-nouban</i> (الطمبورة/الطنبورة - النوبان) which was used in the past as a healing method because of its strong African origins. The dancers shake their hips which has a belt attached to them full of <i>jiljal</i> or tiny sea-shells (the belt's called <i>al-manjour</i>) to the beat of African drums like <i>al-kasir</i> and <i>al-rahmani</i> to excoriate evil spirits.</div>
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Sea shanties are the best, most-powerful music in the entire world. The Arabian Gulf (and, Saudi Arabia) has a variety of sea shanties that don't differ much whether they're sung on the eastern shore or the western one. The first of these songs sailors sing on board of their ships is the <i>al-bricha</i> (البريخة) which is an encouraging ballad sung in unison as the moor is being lift ready to go to the sea. Other on-ship singing styles are the <i>al-dawri </i>(الداوري: sung by some of the sailors known for its powerful alt-tenor long-winded voicings), <i>al-khatfah</i> (الخطفة: sail-hoisting songs), <i>Ya Mal</i> (hollering songs known across the Arabian Gulf that start with the line '<i>Ya Mal</i>', or O'Winding Road), <i>jarr al-mijadeef</i> (جر المجاديف: ship oar-rowing routine song) all of which are sung accompanied by simple brass hand-instruments like the <i>hawn</i> (copper-made mortar), and <i>yehla </i>(small cymbals).<br />
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Other shanties are called <i>fjieri</i> (فجيري), or dawn songs sung as ships leave at the break of dawn based on two main poetic scales called <i>zhairi</i>, and <i>mweili</i> (the first has many variations including <i>khumasi</i> - quintet, <i>sudasi</i> - sextet, and the septuple or <i>suba'ai</i> meters). Their on-ship songs are called <i>nahbah</i> - نحبة and <i>nahmah</i> - نهمة, and they're like elongated weeps that has this bluesy distinctive sound that I like so much (it's my most favourite music style, by the way). Other sea songs are <i>al-jandah</i> - الجندة which is a variation on the <i>nahbah</i> that comes in shorter words sung as greetings for all sailors in respectful hums called <i>hamhamat</i> (همهمات), and the <i>houli</i> (هولي) which is believed to have been called so after a Djin or <i>afreet</i>'s name that fornicated with a woman in antediluvian days. (Note: most Saudis and Arabian Gulf inhabitants have roots in what became the Houli tribe, which is where all bedouins come from, basically. Bedouins pride their selves at being <i>froukh al-jin</i>: فروخ الجن - Djins' offspring).</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The early singers as we've discussed earlier on, had strong roots in
Javanese and Yemeni music. One of the earliest Saudi popular singers was
Hassan Jawa (حسن جاوة, real name: Hassan ba Junied) who was nicknamed
'Mecca's Throat' (حنجرة مكة) because he used to shout the <i>athan</i> from Islam's <i>qiblah </i>or the prayers' direction. Java, or <i>Jawa</i> in Arabic in addition
to Yemen were the original sources for all 20th-century Saudi and
Jazeerah music thanks to this scared geography that Mecca was given at the early starts of the Islamic faith. It's these Indonesian traders who were influenced by
Yemeni Muslim ones hundreds of years ago when they went to Java to
trade their spices and <i>Matari</i> coffee (it's where the borrowed English word java came from, by the way as it used to be <i>javah</i>, or <i>kahwa</i> in Arabic which became 'coffee'), for Indonesian wood to build their ships and exotic fruit. By the time those
Indonesians turned Muslim, they went to Mecca to be closer to the
birthplace of Islam. It's such a remarkable transcontinental musical
exchange unseen elsewhere around the world so much that m</span>odern
Indonesian is thought to contain as many as 3,000 Arabic words.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Beside Hassan Jawa whom we've mentioned, other singers who saw some popularity around the first half of the last century were Fahd Abu-Hmied, Othman Khamees, Mohammed Ali Sindi, Seraj Abd Al-Ghani, Mohammed Al-Rayess, Mohammed Saleh A'arafah, Al-Cherif Mohammed bin Chahin, Said Al-Zaqzouq, violinist Mahmoud Helwani, Abderrahmane Muzzein 'Al-Applteen', Abdelrrahmane Makki, Mutlagh Mekhlid Al-Thiyabi (a.k.a. 'Sameer Al-Wadi'), Mohammed Al-Asmar, Al-Hourani, Al-Halanqi, Al-Waznah, Al-Shawli, Bakr Jouji, Ibrahim Al-Saman, Ibrahim Turkistani, Hassan Daghistani, Talal Salamah, Mohammed Aman, Mohammed ba Joudah, Said ba Khasahabah,</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Omar ba A'ashin, </span><span style="font-size: small;">Hassan Lubna, Mansour Baghdadi, Omar Bukhari, Seraj Atiq, Abdallah ba Ya'ashout, Abdel-Aziz & Abdallah Charaf, Al-Cherif Hachim, and Hussein Hachim.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mohammed Ali Sindi.</span></td></tr>
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Similarly, each city and town around the kingdom started to take its own musical personality, and by the late 40's and 50's and throughout the early 60's Saudi Arabian popular music saw a huge influx of many artists performing in its major cities at parties, wedding <i>halfas</i> and some even were shown on television when it began airing in 1965 like our very own Mohammed Abdou. Among those were Abu-Hussah, Ahmad Bin Redhan, Haidar Fikri, Mussafar Al-Khethami, Jaffar Murchidi, Ismael Al-Turki, Mabrouk Al-Ghrini, Mahmoud Khan, Mahmoud A'achi, Suleiman & Abed-Allah Saharah, Ahmad ba Kalka, As'ad Harbi, Bachir Hamad Chanan, Issa Al-Ihsaei, Abed-Allah Al-Serihk (a.k.a. A'andalieeb Najd), Ghazi Ali, Fawzi Mahsoun, Lutfi Zeini, Hassan Dardier, Sammy Ihasn, and Fahd Al-Said Al-Dowsari.<br />
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From Mecca came Abbas A'ashi, Omar Arba'aien, Said Shawli, Hamza Mughrabi, Ahmad Chiekhou, and from Al-Madinah Mohammed Banani, Hussein Hachim, Hussein Bukhari, Ali Awwiedah, Omar Abdel-Salam, Abdel-Sattar Ghazi, Abdel-Razzaq Najdi, and Mahmoud Nou'amani. As for Jeddah which was like the hub for all of these singers the best were Abbas Al-Maddah, Al-Said Al-Barr, Omar ba A'achan, Mohammed Amin 'Seraj', Abu-Hassan Tubeilah, Said Zaqzouq, Othman Khamees, Arafah Saleh, Ahmad Baghdadi, Bakr Baghdadi, Najieb Joughadar, Ridha Amin, Salem Ahmad Abdel-Fattah, Suleiman M'twalli, Attiah Al-Deghini, Ba Yousef, Asa'ad Kattan, Abderrahmane ba Ghaffar, Abdallah ba Ghasha, Al-Bichi ba Mahdi, Al-Sayed ba Obied Hachim, Omar Al-Thahiri, Al-Sayed Al-Hamdi, Obied M'seghier, Naji, Salem Khamees, Mohammed Ali Sindi, Mahmoud Helwani, Fawzi Mahsoun, Mutlagh Al-Theyabbi, and last but not least Mohammed Abdou's mentor and singing partner Omar Kardas (who along with Abdallah Al-Murshidi and singer and oud-player Yousef Mohammed formed the first ever Saudi popular 'choral' band, or <i>ferqah</i> in the late 50's).<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">At the old <i>Al-Harram Al-Makki</i> itself (now considered the biggest human construction in the history of mankind), old Yemeni singers called '<i>muttawwifin</i>' (مطوفين/مطوف - singular <i>muttawwif</i>, or rover/roamer) used to walk around where many of the pilgrims went to buy souvenirs before they left back to their own countries or towns, and with a small abrupt chorus of singing children, sang some <i>madayeh</i> or adulatory poems for the Prophet Mohammed through which they veered into more <i>tatreeb</i> songs (تتطريب) and poetry in order to make the audience pay for their efforts. Tarab as a classically-performed music genre was otherwise respectfully played at a special place called <i>al-maqa'ad</i>, or 'The Seat' (now it's called simply a divan/diwan), where the lead singer like say Hassan Jawa used to sit in the middle of a <i>jalsah</i> (setting), and utterly bring people into an ecstatic state of heavenly superiority that normally ended with the tranced audience literally touching the earth as the music ebbed and flowed (Note: </span><span style="font-size: small;">Tarab itself as a word came from <i>turab</i> - تراب, or sand in Arabic</span><span style="font-size: small;">. We shall discuss this genre in detail along with an introduction to Gnawa music in our next post 'ere at the Audiotopia). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The listeners were all seated as we said next to the singer or <i>mutrib </i>and within the first few lines, everyone would feel a gravitational force that would bring them closer to the earth, or the sand which Arab people usually sit near to. This oneness state of earth and the human element of sand known in theosophical terms as a base natural element which the human skin is said to be made from, brings in the highest transcendence any music could bring: the fusion of inanimate and animate states makes us one with the universe. Ecstatic states like <i>tarab</i> and gnawa are not fully studied like similar sufist trances, and the literature written on it is mediocre (see Prof. of Ethnomusicology at the U.C.L.A. Ali Jihad Racy's </span><a href="http://books.google.jo/books?id=3-28hM3kdskC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false">book</a><span style="font-size: small;"> on the Tarab subject. It carries a detailed historical background on this amazing music genre).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Saudi singress, Touha.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, even women saw a seat at these <i>jalsat </i>or settings in addition to participating at the folkloric dances wearing their <i>thobs</i> or long, embroidered, colourful robes called in Saudi <i>al-nasha'al</i>/ <i>darrah zeri</i> and wearing face-covers or veils as not to show their true identity (Note: music in Saudi Arabia and the neighbouring countries had always had this 'shame' culture attached to it where a woman could be killed if a family was ousted as one of hers! The early female singers who were famous sang with aliases, pseudo-names, mono-names, or sometimes were simply called by their self-chosen first names along with the place where they came from instead of their real names or just the place alone). <br /><br />The first among a handful of those female singers were sisters Fatmah and Aisha Zaydiyiah who were both singers and players at the same time of the <i>oud</i> and the violin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">L</span><span style="font-size: small;">ater, and in the late 50's and 60's female Saudi popular singers like Fathiya 'Touha' Hassan Yahia,
Ibtisam Lutfi (real-name: Khairyiah Kerban, believed to be blind. She played the oud so well and taught it to many popular male Saudi singers. These two singres will have one exclusive post full of their great music soon), Shough Al-Jiddahwiyiah, Qamar Al-Taheriyiah, Zeineb
Al-Hindyah, Hajiyah Al-Makkawayiah, Atifah and Mariam Al-Taifyiah,
Al-Mirea'aniyah Abdallah, Saliha Madani (a.k.a. Saliha Al-Baltajyiah, daughter of singer and oud-player Hassan Madani), Fawzieyah Tanakah, Fawzieyah Kakola, Kaka Janna, Karamah, Latifah Al-Maghribyiah, Al-Adaniyah, Samar Dina and a few other female singers who saw some minor fame among the predominately-male singing scene 40 years ago.</span></div>
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Most women weren't allowed to sing anywhere outside their homes and singing and/or playing music was prohibited at all places save only for when it came time to announce a newly-wedded couple at weddings in the privacy of a <i>julwah - </i>جلوة<i>,</i> or a bride's sanctuary. This was a place were the bride is kept inside a small construction called '<i>sitar</i>' (ستار: curtain) and her folks would ask her to stay still until her man would come to take her (<i>lazmah</i>
- لزمة: obligatory stay). Some women were taken from their parents'
homes straight to their new ones where a husband would be awaiting,
fully dressed as a warrior as fellow men would fire shotguns and dance
with their weapons as they swung them in the air in joyous celebration. <br />
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dance and sing, the women would get busy preparing the bride's henna (<i>shat al-henna</i>: شات الحنة), and dressing her in gold (<i>ghamrah: </i>غمرة) and various ornaments (<i>rashrash: </i>رشرش). This dressing ritual is intermixed with songs and prayers of good-wishing and some evil-eye thwarting incantatory hymns, and ends with placing the topmost and heaviest jewellery piece carefully at the bride's head called <i>al-hammah</i> (الهامة) sometimes weighing in around 250 grams of solid gold as the leading singing woman would sing high-pitched <i>ahazeegh</i> (أهازيج: joy shouts) and make <i>zaghareet</i> (زغاريت: ululations) at the top of her throat when the moment came to take the bride to her final home.<br />
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The other participating women would be the <i>tagagas</i> (طقاقات, or beaters) and those played their hand-drum and cymbals at weddings singing <i>a'ashouri</i> (wedding <i>shiite</i> songs) and <i>majlis</i> songs (the style was called <i>m'jelsi</i>). Dances are very scarce but almost all of the Saudi women who participate in folkloric dances would dance slowly the most common type which is called the <i>haliye</i> which has a seigniorial staid rhythm of shaking the hairs (usually oiled and combed all the way to the dancer's hips) to the sides in tandem to the music played by a band of <i>tagagaat</i> and a singing, story-teller woman who's called <i>wannasah</i> or the 'amuser' whose job is to keep everybody amused until the bride leaves her house.<br />
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The Islamic rule against using any musical instrument was misinterpreted and of course, misused by many Saudi Muslims and Arabs, too. There is a large stigma stamped directly on any of these women who share the joy of weddings (which is very Islamic, by the way as it is necessary to enjoy and celebrate, and even announce with a racket the wedded couples so that everyone would know that they're married). Nowadays, these women are nothing but farce-fodder and are made the butt of all jokes, so much that this word 'tagagah' is now used as a putdown and a curseword by most Saudis even to men. A newer '<i>tagh Islami</i>' is now mandatory where these women beat their drums without any accompanying other instruments/songs.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The mainstay musical instruments that took these singers and their devout listeners to otherwordly levels in the meantime (and away from the strict <i>Islamaniacs) </i>were the <i>oud</i>, <i>qambus</i>,<i> tar</i> (double-sided skin-drum women usually play), in addition to a hand-drum called <i>zir</i>, and the <i>daff, </i>or tambourine. Other music instruments were mostly pan-Arabic like the <i>qanoun</i>, various wind instruments like the <i>mizmar</i>, or reed flute, the <i>surnai</i>, the<i> gherbah</i> or bagpipes played mainly by men, and a multitude of other drums.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the latter half of the twentieth century, Saudi music saw a sea-change in the direction of how popular music was listened to and the instruments involved. There were radio broadcasts the populace listened to which came mostly from The Voice of Cairo (<i>Sawt Al-Qahira</i>) in the early 40's. Singers started to get their influences from near-eastern countries like Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria more than far-eastern ones like Indonesia and India and the early Yemeni singers. It's such a strange turn of the fates for Saudi music: at one point in time it was almost wholly Yemenite, and then in the 40's and 50's the music became very Egyptian introducing instruments like the violin or <i>kamanjah</i>, and the accordion.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Above: Tareq Abdel-Hakim. Below:<br />opening the first music museum.</span></td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik8IpIbl3yV0FpWmct051es27Zkk3j0qC0qez3ezS2yy_yLLlb8vyYv2OK-ftgAANxZkWq3BVxRoASJktqUzH5JUz3_G954ZGYsc58PrhpiSqrMHKSWbwo24vjrCwRQRnCkct6JjqSHtYR/s1600/tvsupplement1.590933.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik8IpIbl3yV0FpWmct051es27Zkk3j0qC0qez3ezS2yy_yLLlb8vyYv2OK-ftgAANxZkWq3BVxRoASJktqUzH5JUz3_G954ZGYsc58PrhpiSqrMHKSWbwo24vjrCwRQRnCkct6JjqSHtYR/s200/tvsupplement1.590933.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;">One of Saudi Arabia's best singers and composers was sent to Cairo to study music there. His name was Tareq Abdel-Hakim. He was a Brigadier in the Saudi Army in the early 40's and was formally called the "<i>Uzbatchi</i>" ('General' in Ottoman Army parlance which influenced Saudi Arabia and other ex-Ottoman Empire protectorates like Egypt, Syria, and Jordan where these military titles are still used to a certain extent). When Tareq reached Cairo, the newspapers mocked this military man who was assigned a chair at their much-revered musical military school in 1952. After graduating with honours from Cairo in 1953 proving them wrong, he went on to collect music and traditional folk tunes. Under the auspice of Prince Mansour Ibn Abdel-Aziz who was the crown prince at that time, he opened the first ever museum for traditional music in the Kingdom.<br /><br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">His musical talents made him such a popular figure not just in Saudi Arabia but in nearby Arab countries. He was the first Saudi singer to perform in Beirut, Lebanon in the early 50's (I shall write him a very special post full of his wonderful music here at the Audiotopia, soon), plus he was credited to writing the music for the Royal Anthem of Saudi Arabia. Tareq Abdel-Hakim has influenced almost every young aspiring artist and singer, including Talal Maddah, Abed Al-Majid Abed-Allah and of course our very special singer... Mohammed Abdou.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I guess this pretty much does it fer an intro. Hope it's informing and helpful because many still think of Saudi Arabia as a musically-poor place, when <span class="st" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">— after reading all of these singers' names and numerous styles </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">— </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">one can realise how diverse and rich this Arab kingdom is. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">It's not just rich with oil and gas, but also with music and culture that are dying slowly. Saudi Arabia has one of (if not the...) largest reservoirs of oil in the entire world, true but the worst ruling system. You can read if you wish the last, third part of this post below the story of this desert kingdom and how it was explored and then 'exploited' by western colonialist powers. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />But before you do that, please allow me to lead you on now to tonight's singer, and the richest Arab singer ever, the Arabs' Singer himself... Mohammed Abdou.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />Mohammed Abdou (spelled also as, Mohamed Abdo/M7md 3bdo) - مـحـمد عـبده/عـبدو:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Mohammed Abdou Othman Marzouq Al-Dahal Al-A'aseri (his fullest name), Abu-Abdou, or Abu-Nourah (Nourah is his eldest daughter), was born in a small fishing village called Al-Darb in the south-western province of Jizan in 1948. No-one knows the exact date of Mohammed Abdou's birth but some sources place it at the next year 1949, June the 12th. At that time and in Saudi Arabia too little people knew how to read or write let alone be given any birth certificates whatsoever. The only schools available were small government-run ones that had teachers called on-loan, to teach Saudi kids from nearby Arab countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Illiteracy levels were very high because simply said, people were busy living their rustic lives; happily fishing in their small boats, collecting dates from palm trees and their land was a place full of joy and life unlike these so-called modernity times where almost 80% of the populace are either idle (no need to work as long as there are a buttilionth Bengali, Indian and Pakistani worker who could do that job for ya), or overly obese just like Americans are who came to Saudi Arabia in the early 30's just a few years before WW-II (good timing, indeed), and established there one of the largest oil-producing companies in the world (ARAMCO: Arab American Co. produces at least one tenth of all world petroleum production) in a very conservative, ex-British Empire colony (Note: Saudis deny their being colonized by the British Crown, but turdling Britons aside, they are known now as the most Americanized people in the Middle-east, and Saudi Arabia itself is officially considered America's biggest market for its merchandise and fast-food empire regardless of these falsely-pious <i>religiots</i>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sad sob stories continue when Mohammed Abdou was born, his father Abdou Othman Al-A'asiri was just a poor fisherman in that Tuhama, A'asir village who had six children with his wife Salma Nasr-Allah. Smallpox was epidemic at that time, and almost all of their children died including a three-year old 'Mohammed' whose mother vowed to name her next child like him because she loved him so much. After that sad incident, the family decided to move to Jeddah (nicknamed by villagers at that time the '<i>Ghoul</i>' because it was so big in comparison to their small villages) where the 'other' Mohammed was born. His father left his job as a fisherman and took a new one as a bricklayer. But, soon the father left them in 1953 after he fell prey himself to smallpox, dying before Mohammed walked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">As a orphan aged only 3, Mohammed went with his widowed mother and her other two siblings who were saved from that plight to an orphanage house called <i>Ribat Abu-Zinadah</i>; a Yemenite hostel for orphaned families and soon crown prince Faisal accepted her children into one of the orphan-schools he himself paid for. Mohammed Abdou went to that orphan school at Harat Al-Yemen in Jeddah where he said once that in that school he, "...learned how to live and depend on myself." It wasn't an easy life, still it's far better than what theirs would have been if they were left alone. After his graduation from sixth-grade, he started taking many menial jobs: selling candy and mixed-nuts in the market, joining once as a temployer the general post-office working there as a collector, and so on until he joined a vocational institute to make a living for himself and his family moving with them to a new house with whatever little money he's been given as a graduation prize by the time he's finished.</span><br />
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One of the new neighbours at their new surroundings was a singer who happened to memorize some of the old '<i>danat</i>' songs by chance, and Mohammed went to his house almost every night to hear him sing these old songs and soon kept a log-book of these in his heart and mind which later guided him as his personal musical compass in his exceptional career. At one of the <i>sama'aie</i> parties (سماعي: listening settings for classical music), he sang one of those songs to the joy and admiration of those singers who knew that this kid had something special inside him especially singer Omar Kadras (عمر كدرس) who took the young kid to Jeddah's radio recording studios to pin down three songs that were his very first, issued on the Ash-Shark label which was the first ever Saudi music company, around 1962-1961.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But, singing and playing music was considered anti-Islamic (and yes, still is in modern Saudi Arabia till this day). The house owner asked them to leave, ultimately and so they have complied. His studies at the vocational institute were starting and he decided to study his father's job joining as a ship-builder there. He built a whole ship himself he called "<i>Markeb Al-Hindi</i>" and wanted to be its captain as one of his most popular songs he wrote later spoke about this dream of his life. Mohammed always had this dream where he was there in the middle of the sea alone with his lover. That song became his most favourite (and, also my favourite among his 400 or so that he sang between 1961-1990).</span><br />
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During the time he was at the institute, he won an academic scholarship to continue his studies in Rome, Italy. A Saudi radio presenter who heard the young Abdou sing at <i>Masrah Al-Itha'a</i> choral band (مسرح الإذاعة: Radio's Theatre) named Abbas Fa'aeq Ghazawi saw him and asked him to join his programme for talents named 'Baba Abbas'. When he heard of the intended trip to Italy, he feared he'd lose Abdou for good, so he sent for him during his ship's journey to that European city, trying to convince him not to stay there, and offered him a trip to Beirut, Lebanon complete with a whole band. The year now is 1964, and the technical institute days were over and
so were Jeddah's radio choral ones. He started earlier to sing
at Hassan Rajab's salon which was brought to existence by the efforts of Saudi
singer Omar Kadras. Beirut was where he recorded a few of his earliest songs and sang some live parties (<i>haflat</i>) to a small enthusiastic audience. His career began taking a more professional shape ever since. Among those singers and composers who helped him shape his career were Kadras, Abbas (he called him <i>Baba Abbas</i> which means 'Father' just like he's known in his famous radio programme), Taher Al-Zamachsheri (who wrote most of his popular songs and went to Beirut with him along with Omar Kadras), the 'Songs Vessel' poet Mohammed Abdallah, and poet Ibrahim Al-Khafaji, Seraj Omar, Sammy Ihsan, Mohammed Shafiq, and Saudi-Syrian composer Mohammed Muhsen. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">His popularity took him to television in 1965 and he appeared there wearing a <i>hatta </i>(small head cover) singing one of Tareq Abdel-Hakim's songs (<i>'Sekkat Al-Ashegeen</i>', or Lover's Lane). Kuwait was his next stop where in 1966 he sang live on Kuwaiti national T.V. his song which took him outside to other Arabian Gulf countries. That song was <i>'Mako Fakkah'</i> (No Change) and soon his name became very popular in all of the Arabian Gulf countries that watched with astonishment this young singer singing with all of his might that beautiful, upbeat popular song. It was a huge hit. Other Saudi singers took notice of Mohammed Abdou's rising stardom and tried to stop him in his mid-tracks.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Singer and composer Omar Kadras.<br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Another popular Saudi singer Talal Maddah (طلال مداح) went also at that time to Beirut and soon after Abdou's success, he recorded with Omar Kadras one of the songs that Mohammed Abdou himself was supposed to sing, but Kadras refused to give it to him because of Talal Maddah's established fan base at that time thinking that he'd get a hit by giving it to Maddah instead. This instigated a years-long rivalry between these two singing poles of Saudi popular music. Talal was maybe older and more famous than Abdou was, but Abdou's voice was more mellow and made a bigger fan base than Talal's. Also, most of Mohammed Abdou's songs were livelier and had a fresh, 'modern' tune to them better than Maddah's were (Talal Maddah sang mostly in very old <i>majrour</i> and <i>danat </i>styles).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">In Cairo, with Said Ba Matahar (L), and singing, late 60's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">His fame took him throughout the late 60's and he was the best singer in and outside of Saudi Arabia to call whenever a wealthy prince wanted to have a <i>hafla</i> or wanted to listen to some old oud songs in a tarab <i>jalsah</i>. With his fame and a small fortune he amassed from his live parties and record sales (one of his earliest discs sold out immediately after its release in 1967 an unbelievable-at-that-time 30,000 copies in less than a week!), but after a series of concerts in Kuwait, Qatar, and The United Arab Emirates he decided to go to Cairo to sing there and accomplish a good classical music base for himself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">He joined forces with Michel Al-Masri band's players collected from The Arabic Institute for Music (The Conservatoire) and the other students who studied there, singing with them as he was still studying at the institute. Then, and after his successful <i>haflat</i> in Cairo in 1969, he joined Ahmad Fouad Hassan's Diamante Band (<i>Al-Ferqa Al-Masyiah</i>) considered at that time the best orchestral band in the whole of Cairo which played for Abdel-Halim Hafez. This fame was fueled by wealthy Saudi princes' support like Prince Badr Bin Abdel-Muhsin who wrote for Abdou many of his most famous songs, Mohammed Al-Abedallah Al-Faisal, Khaled Al-Faisal (who wrote for him from 1965 until 1995 various songs among which is one of my Abu-Nourah's favourites, namely; <i>Al-Moa'anat</i>, or 'The Suffering'), Prince Khaled Bin Yazeed, Prince Abderrahmane Bin Messa'ad, Prince Saud Bin Abdellah, and some princes from Kuwait and the U.A.E. most notably, Prince Mohammed Bin Rachid Al-Maktoum of the Dubai Emirate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">1973 was pivotal in his career because most of his songs started to get issued on compact cassettes instead of vinyl records. He also took another tangent and started to sing concerts for some Saudi and Arab expats who enjoyed his songs and beautiful pop arrangements in countries like Greece, Turkey, and Iran. Some of these countries' singers took his songs and remade them with new words sung in their own languages. It's a sure sign on how his songs were becoming worldly and very popular. Not just that, but in 1977 he left for a European tour to become the first Saudi Arabian singer to ever perform in Europe singing on his way in Geneva, Paris, and London.<br /></span><br />
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In June, 1976 Mohammed Abdou was invited to sing at his second-home Yemen during the National Day of Independence celebrations in Sana'a the capital. There, a Yemeni composer wrote for him one song which he sang accompanied by a modern band that included an electric guitar and organ (Yemen was very conservative at that time, musically-speaking), and this song co-composed with Mohammed Murchid Naji and written by poet Mahdi Hamdoun '<i>Dhanani Al-Shough</i>' (Love's Pained Me) became a huge success. In the same year, he married his childhood love interest and neighbour Najwa and began his family life which took him partly away from singing and the pop world. In his 40-year plus career, he made many albums, and established his own record label (<i>Sawt Al-Jazeerah</i> - 'Voice of Al-Jazeerah') issuing one cassette album of his songs after another. These cassette-albums became records of his musical genius and the admiration of many a record collector. Most of these are to be uploaded here in the links below, so please enjoy these and more.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In 1989, his mother died and Mohammed stopped singing altogether. It was one of the saddest moments in his entire life as he put it in more than one interview. She was the real love of his life and the one for whom Abdou sang and wanted to be a star after all the hard years that she had to go through when he was at the orphan school (He wasn't allowed to see her in her house when he was still studying at the vocational school). Mohammed Abdou was so saddened by her death that he decided not to issue any more albums from 1989 until 1997. In 1990, the First 'Desert Storm' Gulf War erupted and the atmosphere pushed to the fore these less-artistic national songs which Gulf states were airing and playing over and over when Saddam Hussein tried to invade Kuwait (part of the Arabian Gulf Cooperation Council, or <i>Majlis Al-Ta'awoun Al-Khaleeji</i> - مجلس التعاون الخليجي العربي).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">That war was disastrous on almost all Arabian Gulf singers who stopped singing their popular-themed songs and left these for what's known as <i>Wataniyat</i> (Nationalistic song), issuing their albums wearing their military fatigues instead of their traditional garbing. Even Mohammed Abdou himself made a couple of album-cassettes which had a drawing of some F-16 Jetfighters on the cover with him wearing that famous Desert-Storm khaki-coloured camo. But, at least it was a good rest from his rivalry with Talal Maddah: they weren't rivals anymore and they both joined hands and throats in a couple of musical operettes (<i>Mawlid Ummah</i>: The Birth of A Nation - 1989, <i>Waghfet Hagh</i>: A Truth Stand - 1991) sung about Saudi Arabia as the whole Saudi Kingdom was fearful of the consequences of that atrocious war which changed the political map of the whole Middle-eastern region. </span><br />
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After eight years, and in September, 1997 he sang in a National Day celebration for Saudi audiences who were amazed at how his voice became more mature. His voice was marvelous and more tact. But, the arrangements were full of lush (strings, endless violin strings...), and the ever-hateful keyboard became the first and most audible musical 'non'-instrument in the orchestra that grew so much from a dozen or so players to a stupefying 80-plus players! It wasn't bad, though. That year, he went to London to sing at three concerts (all are available for download), and he issued the three albums plus two other ones all at the same time which was unbelievable to say the least! Not one pop singer in the world did that. The rest of his rivals were busy with their rivalries but as for Mohammed Abdou's fans, they were busy trying to decide which album to choose as 'best' among these five ones. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Abdou singing live: his best ever. 90's.<br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">With Warda Al-Ghazaieryah.</span></td></tr>
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The next year saw his official comeback when he sang at the Abha Music Festival in 1998 issuing another mind-blowing three albums concurrently. Followup concerts in Qatar, Dubai, and Cairo were the much-needed nails to fortify this vessel that would sail him along the competitive singing seas in the late 90's for which Mohammed Abdou was the known salty sailor, indeed.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Other Arab pop singers had to join him only as there was literally no competition when it came to rivaling Abou Nourah. Late Egyptian-Algerian singer Warda (whom the Audiotopia had her an extensive post <a href="http://theaudiotopia.blogspot.com/2012/05/singing-rose-tribute-to-warda-al.html">here</a>), sang with him in a summer concert in Cairo, but she wanted him to sing first because she had a prestigious call to end the concert with her voice, only... for the audience to leave after Mohammed Abdou's number which caused her never to sign another contract with the concert manager Jalal Moua'wad again, leaving ultimately to Paris.<br />
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Other concerts around 1998-2000 followed as there were more few operettes and some musicals with fellow Saudi singers Talal Maddah, Abdel-Majid Abedallah, Abbadi Al-Jouhar, and Kuwaiti female singer Nawal. He also sang a musical for The U.A.E.'s president Shiek Zaid Bin Sultan Al-Nihayan with Egyptian singer Angham, and Bahraini-Emirati singer Ahlam in addition to spectacular Saudi singer Rachid Al-Majid whom we're going to have a special post for soon insh'Allah. Rachid joined Abdou again with the 'usual suspects' of Saudi popular music Talal Maddah and Abdel-Majid Abedallah in another operette for a Saudi prince's wedding called '<i>A'arayes Al-Mamlakah</i>' (The Kingdom's Weddings). In this post, I won't offer any of these operettes' albums or those nationalist ones, because I honestly think that they are musically inferior to his solo ones. Excuse me on that one.<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #741b47;">His Musical Genius:</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mohammed Abdou.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Abdou's music was based on the older generation's ageless talents and songs of maybe a thousand years of heritage, but nevertheless, he was credited to at least preserving these songs called <i>mawrouth</i> (the inherited songs) without much change in their buildup or musical arrangements. His Chaabyat albums that he released through his label Voice of Al-Jazeerah in the 90's were his attempt at documenting that old tradition. These <i>jalsat</i> (settings) where were his talent has got best crystallized: his oud was this instrument for which he talked to almost spiritually, in a manner never seen elsewhere in any Arab singer save for maybe Farid Al-Atrache and the genius Baligh Hamdy whom he wanted to sing one of his songs, but alas, that never took place because Talal Maddah raced him to Baligh. Still, Abdou sang one of Baligh's compositions '<i>Sert Al-Houb</i>' (Love Story) for Umm-Kalthoum as a token of his admiration for Baligh's artistry. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">At his early days.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">His earliest songs that he used to sing were religious chants and <i>anasheed</i> (Islamic songs that are okay to sing without any instrumental accompaniment save for maybe a small tambourine), <i>muwashahat</i>, and reciting the Quran after prayer time, or in his school's celebrations. Students and teachers alike used to gather around him to hear him warble with these marvels at recess breaks, or whenever they were allowed. Fearing that he might quit school to follow a career as a singer, his mother asked him to sing only on invitation when the older singers were around, so that her son would stay a pupil to these established singers. His voice and oud playing overcame this fear when jaws dropped after he gave say, a rendition of some old Yemeni <i>adwar</i> (old songs of known maqamat) known for their almost impossibility for a young singer to master. These songs were like old best kept secrets that Yemeni singers sang and competed with each other to take to higher levels. That's where the name 'adawr' came from which means 'levels', or floors literally.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">On Saudi T.V. circa 1970's.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">For four years and when he was just nine years old, Mohammed Abdou stayed as just this 'back-singer'... singing for the joy or on invitation by some of the older singers. He refused to write any music for himself because he thought of his voice as a tool pretty much like those tools he used at his vocational institute to build ships with. In 1961, this '<i>solopsism</i>' changed when he was 14: he wrote his first song sans any musical instruments (<i>'Khalas Da'at Amanina</i>' - It's All Over, We Lost Our Wishes). T.V. stardom came a-knocking in the mid-60's and between 1965-1967 he sang songs on Jeddah's theatre television and then went to the capital Riyadh to sing there in its larger T.V. studios. This gave him the 'poportunity' to be audible as well as 'visible' to the Arabian Gulf states' audience and in no time... he was nicknamed as The Jazeerah Singer (<i>Fannan Al-Jazeerah Al-Arabiyah</i> - فـنان الجـزيرة العـربيـة).<br /></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Abdou in the 70's.</span></td></tr>
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The songs that he sang to that mass audience (considered as the wealthiest among all Arab ones), were bedouin poetry songs called Nabatean songs. Nabati poetry as it's called in Arabic is a pre-Islamic style of bedouin poetry and singing that bedouins in the northern parts of Saudi Arabia and southern Jordan still sing. Also, a multitude of poets from other Khaleeji states like the U.A.E. and Kuwait sing in this 2000-year old style until this very day, with a fierce competition among them. It's one of the oldest living styles of singing that needs a considerable amount of talent and musical ability to master. As for the more popish sounds of Mohammed Abdou, the song <i>Aba'ad</i> gave him a world-wide popularity at the time when it was released in the mid-70s. It was considered a huge success for a singer who came from a musically-challenged country like Saudi Arabia. That song was covered by other singers from Lebanon (The Bendali family sang it), Greece, and Iran.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">His songs were short at the first years of his early career and before he gained popularity, but not after his days in Cairo when he joined larger orchestras (<i>Al-Ferqa Al-Masiyah</i>, <i>Ferqat Al-Nil</i>,... etc) where each of his songs had to have a lengthy intro full of instrumentation and a lot of of his fans welcomed this change regardless of his critics (one of those was none other than Talal Maddah himself). The only downside of those Cairo days was the fact that his orchestrational work became less and less Saudi/Nabatean/Hijazi/Yemeni... and more and more Egyptian. He stopped being the back-singer, true... only to get himself a collection of Egyptian back-singers (most were females) which gave his songs a '<i>tunecture</i>' of un-Saudiness to them. The other Khaleeji singers used the same method, like Abed Al-Rab Idrees (who worked and composed for Abdou in the late 80's), and Yemeni singer Abu-Bakr Salim (the three worked together in 2006 in an Arabic formal-language song called '<i>Atat Hind</i>' - Hind Came).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Discography:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span>In 1977, Mohammed Abdou established his own studio at Al-Nazlah district in Jeddah issuing all of his live concert albums at first (amount to 43 cassettes), and also some of the Chaabyat (popular folkloric songs, 23 albums in total), both of which witnessed such huge sales and popularity among his fans and avid collectors at the same time. Most of his earlier cassettes were issued on the Romco label in Kuwait during the early 70's. His solo Oud works have so many cassette albums, too both in <i>Jalsa </i>(Jalsa Oud 4-volumes series) and as a soloist (A'ala Oudi 3-volumes series) and the earliest Romco editions of Jalsah Oud (too many to care to count) all of which you will find downloadable at the links below. His early albums were his best, but most of his later work was just as good.<br />
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Mohammed Abdou's music in the Zips never changed much from his early 70's one. His style influenced many singers and he is said to be one of the originalists who stayed faithful to their sound throughout his 40-plus years career. To wit, in 1997 when he left with the Masiyah orchestra for his first London concerts led by Walid Fayed, his three albums that were culled from that concert didn't vary at all from his 1977 work which saw him rearranging his older tunes that he'd made during that timespan (not withstanding the change in the musical instruments) in a more composed form. In other words, his musical work was just perfect.<br />
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In 2005, he signed a 15-million Saudi Riyal contract with the Saudi-owned satellite mega-company Rotana for music production, but these later works saw more sloppily-made tunes that didn't follow strictly with his earlier musical compass like <i>'El-Amakin' </i>(The Places), and his album <i>'Muth'hilah' </i>(You're Incredible) and both I didn't upload for personal 'taste' reasons so that you may excuse me again here. It's just that I don't think it'd be hard for anyone to get these from anywhere be it, on the web, or off of it. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Well, regardless... His overall discography totals around 200 albums and records from his early starts in the 1961, until 2011. Half a century of golden songs made by the golden singer of the Arab world: Mohammed Abdou, or Abu-Nourah as millions of his Arab devout fans call him. Enjoy these 100-plus records and songs that can amount to around 700! The total gigs for the whole files (in case you're nuts enough to DL them all as I might want you to) is over 3GB! <br /><br />That's nothing, fer reals. In this <a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/195450110/c54116cf/m7ammad_3abdo_ipod_4GB.html">file</a> you can find an iPod-worthy mix for almost all of his songs weighing a dainty 4GB in case your bauds are up and runnin' and you can DL this huge file. If not so, here are two smaller-sized files with some of his best songs mixed by an anonymous <i>Abdaoui</i> fan that I give to you here as a bonus:<br /><br /> </span><span style="color: #990000;">✖</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Mohammed Abdou Mix (2-Parts):</span><br />-<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?q1ucvqq4jtgbuk9">Abdou Mix - Part 1</a><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b><br />-<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?xszivqdyruerlei">Abdou Mix - Part 2</a><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b><br /><br /><br />Whews! It's gettin' hotter here I can fuckin' tell y'all!<br /><br />With this note... you are free to download all or any of the following one hundred albums below. I leave it at here fer you to enjoy. And, many thanks to everyone who've helped make this post very extra special. Thanks go to Yazeed for his endowing efforts at his weblog <a href="http://yazeed.net/">yazeed.net</a> and 'fore I go... I posted some few useful blogs and links on Saudi Arabian music, culture and art and at the very end you can set and read about the history of oil and war in that region which we all know now, thanks to today's maddening media. Hope you can dig and 'njoy everything 'ere to the ultimate limit.<br /><br /><i>Allah bal'Khier, everyone!</i></span><br />
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<b style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Albums:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>"Note: Holy
'eck! I felt like hammering you with all of this 'Saudio' thang. Get these 100+ cassettes, cartridges, and CD albums complete with their front covers guys even if ya had to lose yer
kidneys DL-in' them. Cool beans? Polar!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Start diggin' now."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?yy6nbzjlvdhky7j">Mohammed Abdou - A'ala Al-Bal</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #bf9000;">.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?t7c2ezm4yi8b9fq">Mohammed Abdou - A'ala Oudi Vol. 1</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #bf9000;">.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?8c65o9k5sn25g94">Mohammed Abdou - A'ala Oudi Vol. 2</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?k7dl34zqdr89vt6">Mohammed Abdou - A'ala Oudi Vol. 3</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?vxywbtrxgku2ojy">Mohammed Abdou - Aba'ad</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?pnj9e86dl33hfw6">Mohammed Abdou - Aba'atither</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?c584wk5ityoa8ih">Mohammed Abdou - Afrah</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?1ghghjqbxgl8lzv">Mohammed Abdou - Agrab Al-Nas</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?t7zktu4zp8ry7kh">Mohammed Abdou - Al-Habib Al-Ghali</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?iqwufs0mr4qe487">Mohammed Abdou - Al-Ma'azeem</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?xpkzfrz5ktl5icc">Mohammed Abdou - Al-Moa'anat</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?9kbew3z6v9fql37">Mohammed Abdou - Al-Remsh Al-Tawil</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?k8hg4ki5cfb8m4z">Mohammed Abdou - Al-Sineen</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?ycrjwc4tnzg3vha">Mohammed Abdou - Arfudh Al-Masafah</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?1dko443n4p1rayp">Mohammed Abdou - Asmar A'abar</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?uqv46104vu524wd">Mohammed Abdou - Ayouh</a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?a0erub6040fkit8"><br />Mohammed Abdou - Chaabyat - Vol. 5: Sameri</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?n693jb63tgc9mjp">Mohammed Abdou - Chaabyat - Vol. 6: Hijazi</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?nci2zop8ultsyu1">Mohammed Abdou - Chaabyat - Vol. 7: Yamani Hijaz-Khaleej</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?dok4j6h7fyydkqq">Mohammed Abdou - Chaabyat - Vol. 8: Sayegh Al-Khier</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?hdi78bne1mb9uh4">Mohammed Abdou - Chaabyat - Vol. 9: Da'ani El-Shough</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?30tuapyk482ta6k">Mohammed Abdou - Chaabyat - Vol. 10: Ya Bou Fahad</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?c15ueaukcgf7h8e">Mohammed Abdou - Chaabyat - Vol. 11: A'anoud Al-Saied</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?w4znf30f3nff6sd">Mohammed Abdou - Chaabyat - Vol. 13: Law Kalafatni Al-Mahabah</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?261m484cmzzd4wu">Mohammed Abdou - Chaabyat - Vol. 14: Sameri Adani</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?a92mx1g5i75m1wv">Mohammed Abdou - Chaabyat - Vol. 15: Sameri Adani</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?muo1852q79nbc6i">Mohammed Abdou - Chaabyat - Vol. 18</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?mdrmx5ckdy1ofk4">Mohammed Abdou - Chaabyat - Vol. 19</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?90aghksbjdhfagl">Mohammed Abdou - Chaabyat - Vol. 20</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?r4pn7zh17ecd6ll">Mohammed Abdou - Ekhtalafna (The London Concert Pt. 2)</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?v2jd12pb778id81">Mohammed Abdou - Inti Neseiti (The London Concert Pt. 3)</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?9eco3vs8rbn1tgn">Mohammed Abdou - Eiyoun Al-Liel</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?4pcy4abbw1c649e">Mohammed Abdou - El-Baraghe'a</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?gw49ng7ooa7b6b6">Mohammed Abdou - El-Birwaz</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?u358hwc9v5hfe2m">Mohammed Abdou - Fee El-Jaw Ghiem</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?34621540mocxm1k">Mohammed Abdou - Ghal Al-Mouana'a</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?1r89d3l2uvovufr">Mohammed Abdou - Hala Wallfain Hala</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?8a67aa1ug16j8s7">Mohammed Abdou - Hala Ya Bou Sha'ar Thayer</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?148gba9bie82ga7">Mohammed Abdou - Khata</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?njb4ujuvxanvw32">Mohammed Abdou - La Wada'a</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?axgqefej7ap5snu">Mohammed Abdou - Masa'a El-Khier</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?94zbj25zs6x8d6q">Mohammed Abdou - Ounshoudat Al-Matar</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?92913y73a3oi6ue">Mohammed Abdou - Qalbi Dalili</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?sn6uz4g0gzg6opf">Mohammed Abdou - Resalah (Ela Man Yuhimouha Amri)</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?knfs3aazk07psdv">Mohammed Abdou - Sheft Khelli</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?d55zxudv4zmagig">Mohammed Abdou - Tal Al-Safar</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?gowng7yt7m6cpto">Mohammed Abdou - Tistahel Al-Houb - Najdaweyah</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?dkhy8wgtyebffb8">Mohammed Abdou - Waham</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?99v7a8l6bcj2vyu">Mohammed Abdou - Ya Markeb Al-Hindi</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?7qwp3wskvjs37b3">Mohammed Abdou - Ya Markeb Al-Hindi (Hafla)</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?2szdykp8x3j0mjv">Mohammed Abdou - Ya Shough</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?k633389ay8f3q5o">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah A'ala Al-Oud - Vol. 3</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?1qczvz5gek6n6ze">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah A'ala Al-Oud - Vol. 4</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?pmyw2a9mmy53wum">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah Oud - Vol. 2</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?0vk4gwvr9pr0d60">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah Oud - Vol. 3</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?t3c2wavhx5r3rrf">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah Oud - Vol. 4</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?vmdd9cuxzqar7la">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah Oud - Vol. 5</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?crdkw0wf5kmzr24">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah Oud - Vol. 6</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?lu89mp3bc88ay9z">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah Oud - Vol. 6 - Part II</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?7d0vcby80c2ryvu">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah Oud - Vol. 7</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?hft483stmvclexh">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah Oud - Vol. 8</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?i958nrssjnw44mx">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 14</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?un4udvo3kilabhj">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 16</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?c28q9dylnh193s2">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 17</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?81or9hbeckexztu">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 33 - Al-Reyad Concert</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?25w53ul8529996a">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 34 - Los Angeles Concert</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?7zsehl1tmhdcj39">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 42 - Cairo Concert Al-Marriott</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?a8f94i2ns08390c">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 44</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?na6yld7nerkwa2a">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 59 - Mecca Concert</a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?gek1qwtsm9dckk1"><br />Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 60 - Hafla</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?suutb44zl4bo5vd">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 61 - Hafla</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?1w0yc6l5k3ucngx">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 62 - Hafla</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?e1o9mz1q1h6j1ff">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 63 - Hafla</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?7mu1tqj1n7ga4hu">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 64 - Hafla</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?ax6x95plh9a2i79">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 65 - Hafla</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?1bvmwt9q9jbwy9w">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 68 - Hafla</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?xr9tj2dx41xsde9">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 69 - Hafla</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?tfjf5u6gmpwa2i1">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 70 - Hafla</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?6tx77u694cpoofr">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 71 - Haflat S'bya</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?8v48qx4onjo7s7c">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 73 - Hafla</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?v4vmgpph8fyr0fp">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 74 - Hafla</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?qc5fcfoj6u2tjn3">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah Oud - Vol. 78</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?s0mf2ot6wodwdr5">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah Oud - Vol. 79</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?v662kanpk5eqcrd">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsah - Vol. 83</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?ib8bm8jfa3n7wwb">Mohammed Abdou - Jalsaht Attawkilat</a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?4vr4u9kan61tq8i"><br />Mohammed Abdou - Monawa'at (Varieties) - Vol. 1</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?k83z29av4fe9k8c">Mohammed Abdou - T.V. Songs</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">. </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?h81i1i5id1lpuz3">Mohammed Abdou - Old Various Recordings - Part I</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?4hx838blzke6pha">Mohammed Abdou - Old Various Recordings - Part II</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?941wybyaawdsluw">Mohammed Abdou - Oud Songs - Various Live Recordings</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?yqrgcg73fjpggg5">Mohammed Abdou - Early Recordings</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<b style="color: #990000;">Linkages:</b><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">❂</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #741b47;">Useful Linx:</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">-</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://wondersofsaudiarabia.blogspot.com/p/culture-traditions-and-art.html">Saudi Culture And Traditions</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">-</span></span><a href="http://cnn.com/video/?/video/international/2010/11/12/ime.mecca.pilgrims.1885.cnn">Recordings of S.C. </a><a href="http://cnn.com/video/?/video/international/2010/11/12/ime.mecca.pilgrims.1885.cnn">Hurgronje</a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;"> </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></b></span><span style="color: #990000;">❂</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">Orientalists' Books (Arabic):</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">-</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?2nemkdyjjzt">William G. Palegrave's Book</a></span><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">-</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zt0z5kb2yfc">George August Wallin's Book</a></span><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">-</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?yjimlldvzlu">Charles Dider's Book</a></span><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">-</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://al-mostafa.info/data/arabic/depot2/gap.php?file=005968.pdf">Julius Euting's Book</a></span><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">-</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?emeezmwxmgz">Louis Pelly's Book</a></span><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #741b47;"><br /></b></span><span style="color: #990000;">❂</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #741b47;">Photographs:</b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">-</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=joseph+mountain&fq=online_media_type:%22Images%22">Joseph Mountain's Photographs</a></span><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></b></span><span style="color: #990000;">❂</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">Blogs:</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">-</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://khcampbell.blogspot.com/">Music, Life-style & The Arts</a></span><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">-</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://s-0o.blogspot.com/">Old, Rare S. Arabia Pictures</a></span><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">-</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://13martyrs.wordpress.com/">The History of Saudi Arabia</a></span><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">☛</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #741b47;">Merchandise:</b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">-</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://myqabila.blogspot.com/p/collection.html">Must-Buy Cool Mohammed Abdou Tees</a></span><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i><a href="http://www.myqabila.com/">MyQabila Apparel Official Website</a></i>)<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span> <br />(<i><a href="http://labeedoo.blogspot.com/">Graphic Artist Lebeed Assidmi's Blog</a></i>)</span><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span><br />
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That was something. The next post is not going to have any downloadable files in it: it's a small research-like paper that I shall write soon about the theosophical side of some of the oldest musical genres found and practiced around the Arab world. I shall expound in detail the variations of Gnawa music and its origins (Tim Abdellah, take heed), and tell the story of the oldest form of Arabic music still popular today called <i>Tarab</i> music (which we've explained a little bit here), and how it's all related to ecstatic states, neuro-physiology, the unseen other-worldly entities and the phonosophical aspects of these two genres. <br />
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In the meantime, I leave you with this short introduction to the history of oil exploitation and exploration (<i>exploirtaion</i>?) in the Arabian Peninsula. Please, read and savour this new-found knowledge. <br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;"><br />Addendum: </span></b><span style="color: #bf9000;"><b><br />Oilarchy And Religiocy:</b></span><i><span style="color: #bf9000;"><b> Black Bloodied Hands And Soiled Hollow Soul</b>s. The Cruel Realities of Generations'-Old Lies Told by The Saudi Religiot And The American Greediot Oil-Ticks.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><i>The Religiots</i>:</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">The story begins way back in the late 1700s. At that
time, British imperialism was made out of a latent fleet armed with a bunch of drunkard intelligent officers and
Orientalists who were mostly Zionist Jews trying to reclaim their old 'Promised Land' somewhere in the Middle-east as old scriptures provided. The British Empire has set its eyes
on the whole of the Persian Gulf and the Levant area (where Jerusalem lays in the middle of that area shaped like a crescent) hundred of years before the advent of the 18th
century which saw its multitude of colonialist wars that many soldiers who fought in the name of 'christian' faith and the church died for no reason at all. It was all done to satiate the greed of the British Crown that was run and controlled by a handful of Jewish banking families as we all know.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Britain saw in Africa and India a chance to recruit extra 'heathens' whose death wouldn't rattle a feather on their fluffy asses. With time, and when it came the Arab Gulf countries' turn, the Brits lured most of the rouge tribes' leaders to fight for them or face their canons, and paid in solid gold for some of these (<i>Al-Matareesh</i> tribe,
which means literally 'the guerrillas') to invade the neighbouring less-powerful Bani Ka'abb in 1762. The fighting continued backed by Iraqi
tribesmen (<i>Al-Sa'adoun</i> tribe) who were the British allies and wanted to take
control over larger areas other than the northern Persian Gulf lands that
they (the Brits not them) were establishing as their strongholds.</span></div>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Bedouins engraving from the early 18th-Century.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A Jordanian warrior,<br />late 19th century.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Before that and between the years 1744-1745, and oddly enough... a less-powerful tribe called <i>Al-Saud</i> (who made later the reigning
dynasty of nowadays Saudi Kings) sworn allegiance to the fighting
insurgent <i>Al-Sa'adouns</i>. Some sources think that these two tribes were
actually one and the same. King Mohammed Bin Saud was said to be the
first to try and reign in Saudi Arabia after his troops saw some meager success, but his tiny kingdom was soon
toppled down by the Turkish Ottomans who were Britian's only enemy in
the region. History has it that the Jewish-British banker's system started to think of a larger-scale solution for these Ottomans who were almost taking control of 30% of the entire world. The solution was the first World War (nicknamed 'The Great War', because there weren't as big wars as this one fought between 1914 and 1918). But, as for now... the story
continues a hundred years earlier between the years 1817 and 1824.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A group of bedouins from the Hael region, 1910s.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mohammed Ali Basha<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Mohammed Ali Basha (The Egyptian Turkish ruler) took full control of these rebel states in 1817
gaining recognition from the Ottoman Empire. The Sauds were ousted back
to Bahrain and the southern parts of Iraq and Kuwait and were forced to pay taxes like any other. In 1824, the Turks merged
most of Al-Hijaz to Iraq (the Wali of Iraq Daod Basha was responsible
for these parts). But, by the end of 1820 a small army led by Mohammed Bin A'afisan under the rule of Imam Turki Bin Abd-Allah invaded a region called Al-Ahsa after recognizing the Egyptians' reign only in 'suzerainty' to the Ottomans. It was a move fully backed by the British as they were waiting for a war to erupt so that they can get another toe-hold inside these parts that they needed to control because of their closeness to Jerusalem. It was this <i>luftmensch</i> Jewish dreamland. As the war started between Turki Bin Abd-Allah's army and some original Arabs who were direct descendants of Khaled Bin Al-Walid (one of Prophet Mohammed's war aides and <i>Sahabi,</i> or a friend).</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Arabian tribes posing near a canon, circa 1870s.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">After the Al-Ahsa battle which was won by Turki's troops who were backed by British intelligence and artillery, the victorious army went to take over Al-Qatif. In 1843, and with Al-Saud's increasing power, one Faisal Bin Turki Al-Saud was brought back to the Hijaz region from exile in Egypt to be sworn as a ruler in Al-Riyadh (which later became Al-Saud's stronghold and Saudi Arabia's modern-day capital). Years went by with smaller wars that saw the Saud's losing that town for a short while, and then gaining control over it... until Januray, 15th 1902 when Abdel-Aziz Bin Abdelrrahmane Al-Saud took over the capital with the aide of some tribes called '<i>Al-Aflaj</i>' (rogue, gypsy tribes that most came from Iran and Iraq that were cheapily bought into war), and between 1910-1912 he managed to conjoin another district province called Al-Qaseem to Al-Ahsa making the very first signs of establishing a strong, widespread state for Al-Sauds. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A Hajj caravan, circa 1910.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Sultan Alddiene <br />Bin Bijad Bin Hamid:<br />One <i>Ikhwan</i>. 1910s.</span></td></tr>
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To keep a future, tight grip on these parts the British people had
to do two things: make sure that there will be enough wars in the region
so that people would always need them for help. And, two: create a
theocratic state that would give the Al-Saud and few chosen Arab shiek
allies much needed authority so that they can always be in the ruling
seat which of course means... always be at the beck and call of Britain
and its imperialist plans. One of Al-Saud's, erm Kings... designated
himself as an <i>Imam</i> (a title given to the utmost Islamic religious
leader who has complete sovereignty) and joined forces with some
pseudo-religious guerrillas who came from Sudan and Egypt (Note: Britain
trained these for future military action after poisoning their ideology
with jihad and how they should fight for a united Arab Caliphate state.
This has its fruits today with America's own creation Al-Qaeda). They
were called 'The Brothers' or <i>Al-Ikhwan</i>, and soon some Wahabist
(early Taliban-like fighters), joined the King which enabled him to
defeat most areas around Al-Riyadh in 1921 like Ha'el, Al-Jouf in the
north, and Wadi Al-Sarhan near Jordan. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">WW-I Ottoman soldiers.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To fortify his fledgling state, he sent letters to the Arab leaders around Mecca (Cherif Hussein Bin Ali, who was given after WW-I the area that was known as TransJordan or Jordan which became a Kingdom after the British refused to assign that title to one of its earliest Amirs, King Abdallah-I the son of Hussien Bin Ali who was eh, exiled to Cyprus by the British as his son Abdallah was given the ruling seat), and some other few in Ha'el (Shiek Saud Bin Saleh Al-Sabhan), and one Shiek Mubarak Al-Sabah in Kuwait for a conference.</span> That conference was the first nail in the Ottoman's coffin. The only one who refused to connive against the Turks was the Saudi Saud Bin Saleh who vowed to fight those who go against the Ottomans. Cherif Hussein was fully backed by the British Jews and banker imperialists who paid for his title 'Cherif' of Mecca (Note: it's a noble title given only to those who are direct descents of The Prophet Mohammed's lineage or what's called <i>Aal Al-Bayt</i>; the House People. Hussein... wasn't).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Al-Cherif Al-Hussein Bin Ali.</span></td></tr>
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Hussein was a trader in Mecca pretty much unknown until the Hajj season came by where he offered the pilgrims some water and food so that he can be seated with the elite rulers who visited the Hajj yearly in huge, immaculate caravans. Britain has set plans for its growing naval fleet to be supplied from those still undiscovered oil fields that some spies wrote intelligence reports secretly directed back to the British government about how there could be a plenitude of oil and petroleum in that vast, arid desert called the Empty Quarter. They didn't waste time preparing for the Great War (read: a money-printing machine) and in December, 26th one Percy, ahem Cox... signed the so-called Anglo-Najdian Treaty in Darien Island near Al-Qateef. The Viceroy of Britain's colonies and India's ruler certified that treaty a year later in July, 1916 only annulling it in 1927 at the Jeddah Treaty after the British Empire took rights to all oil-fields in the Arabian Peninsula (and not just Saudi Arabia) when they kicked the Turks out with the aide of Hussein's tribesmen who came mostly from TransJordan's <i>Huweitat</i> tribe. It's called, "The Great Arab Revolt" (1916-1918).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mecca's inner sanctum, 1910.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">T.E. Lawrence (a.k.a.<br />Lawrence of Arabia).</span></td></tr>
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Hussein Bin Ali was fooled by a faggoty British Army military map engineer stationed at that time in Cairo, Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935) who was sent to Allepo in Syria, and reached Mecca and Hijaz wearing a woman's dress to scout for support, because they saw in Hussein an 'expansionist' who has asked them for more than what they wanted him to take. To wit, he declared himself as a Cherif and they agreed. Then, Amir of Mecca or ruler from 1908-1917 after the WW-I was almost over, and yes again... they complied because they were too busy oil-exploring and mapping the area. In 1924, he called all Arab Muslims to pay tribute to him as the Caliphate (a dynasty title that wasn't used since the days of Abbasite Caliphates in the 14th-century). The Brits asked Abdel-Aziz to abdicate him, on the promise of giving him that title which Hussein Bin Ali had ("King of Arabs"). With their war machinery together they ousted him to TransJordan where he continued to live until he was exiled and his son Abdallah-I was announced as an Amir... only. Yes, no more King of Arabs. He died in June, the 4th in 1931. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mecca at the height of Hajj season. circa 1900's.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Prince Faisal of Iraq.</span></td></tr>
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Britain in the meantime, continued to ship its troops to Basra, Iraq where their military base positions were situated, and appointed Hussein's son Prince Faisal as Iraq's ruler (later he was made a king) because along with Abdallah, these two backed Britain's plans to finally dispose of their father who was aiming for the birth of a Pan-Arabic supernation. It's a remarkable plot made to take control of all of the Arab world by one false promise given to one 'cherif'. The British rule stretched after WW-I all the way to Iran, Transoxiana (modern Central Asia), Afghanistan, and beyond. These places that still never saw any resting days until now with their inventive <i>religiocy</i> (religious-idiocy) rules and clandestine operations throwing the area into a deep blackhole of so-called Terrorism, Islamophobia, and oilarchy. The British (and later, Americans who are actually British-ruled as the U.S. is nothing but a mega-corporation for the U.K.) came as liberators and tried to force their democracy on the people of the region save for... Saudi Arabia. The question is: why were Saudis saved that much-abhorred 'democrazy' invasion? Because, they discovered in Saudia Arabia the largest reservoirs of oil and natural gas in the entire world.</div>
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To celebrate their 'Independence' from the cherif and his allies, Al-Saud took over all of the main cities in Hijaz like Mecca, Al-Madinah, Al-Ta'eif, and were so close at achieving this goal set for them to achieve by their overlords the Brits. By, December the 5th of 1925 and with the aide of those religio-military rouge forces called <i>Ikhawan</i> led by Faisal Al-Duweish and one of the Islamic Brotherhood's most notorious figures Ibn Hamid, the Sauds took over Jeddah. Abdel-Aziz Bin Abdelrrahmane Al-Saud declared the whole region as one Kingdom calling it at first <i>Mamlakat Al-Hijaz</i>, <i>Najd Wa Mulhaqatiha</i> (The Kingdom of Hijaz, Najd And Its Affiliates). Saudi Arabia was born.</div>
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The first thing that Abdel-Aziz did was to call Faisal-I King of Iraq to fortify the 'brotherly' relations of the two kingdoms. In Ras Tannourah, a British military officer Sir Patrick Stewart went along with his writer and translator abroad the ship 'Nearchus' associated with the British fleet for telecommunications (read: intelli-op), to meet with the British Councillor Humphrey on another ship called 'Lupine' and held that meeting between the two kings in 27th, February, 1930. After three subsequent secret meetings, everyone declared 'Good Wills' and soon, British people knew that the time was finally ripe to reap... the wealths of both kingdoms (Iraq is of course no longer a Kingdom it doesn't even exist anymore). Thursday September the 19th, 1932 (17th <i>Jamada Al-Awwal</i>, 1351 <i>Hijrii</i> years), Abdel-Aziz was given what the British invaders of Hijaz promised him and he united the entire region to become known as <i>Al-Mamlakah Al-Arabia Al-Saudia </i>(The Al-Saud's Arabian Kingdom and not Saudi Arabia as it's known now, because these Al-Sauds still wanted to be<span style="font-size: small;"> 'Kings of All Arabs</span>'). <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">As for Iraq, King Faisal the First
promised to safeguard British oil-interests and he indeed granted large
oil-concessions to British firms. For that Britain paid him £ 800,000
per month which was a beyond-belief-at-that-time amount of hush-hush money. But, during WW-II Iraq was invaded in 1941 by British troops and Arab Legion ones who came marching from TransJordan (a.k.a. The Hashemnite Kingdom of Jordan, now turned into a Kingdom under the rule of King Abdallah-I because it has always been a 'pathfinder' state for the Brits and of course now... The Americans. He was assassinated in Jerusalem </span>in July, 20th 1951<span style="font-size: small;">). And, yes worthy to mention, too was how ten years after WW-II was over in 1958 King Faisal-II was assassinated in a military coup. Faisal's father was also killed in a car crash when he was only three years old</span>. The State of Israel was born in 1948, and Britain withdrew from the whole region gradually and Al-Sauds weren't even touched. Oh, not necessarily so: they were probed instead for oil that the Jews had nicknamed 'the black gold'. Ouch!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">D'aww! A white-as-snow purdy kid meets the monarch!<br />Endearing, innit? No further comments.</span></td></tr>
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<i>The Oilarchists</i>:<br />
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Ever since the days of WW-I were over, and every damn British, Dutch, and American oil-expert was sent there to 'sniff' for all available oil-fields and mineral reservoirs. In 1933, a California-based oil company won the tenders of oil exploration in Saudi Arabia (SOCAL: Standard Oil of California, now known simply as CHEVRON), on a landlot of half a million square miles signing the contract with King Adberrahmane Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al-Saud. Not bad for America, right? Fuck yeah. Five years later, the hugest oil field was discovered: Damam-7 in an area known as the "Arab-Geological Area", and in less than one year... the first oil-carrier ship (D.G. Scofield) leaves the Saudi Arabian harbour of Ras Tannourah in May, 1939 (carrying 1/20th of any oil-carrier's capacity these days) just months before WW-II started. What a coincidence! From that date until 1999, around 90 oil fields were discovered, seven of these were for nat-gas which is why the new wars are being fought for. </div>
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American geologists depended on bedouin scouts in Saudi Arabia to explore that dangerous desert. They're known as naturally-born cowards these Amerifags, so instead of having a first-hand exploration expedition at the region they either sent bedouin scouts with some Arab translators to the desert, or flew airplanes over the region to look for 'gushers': natural pressure oil fields. An American geologist named Max Steinky (he was Jewish by the way, and just for the record) came in 1934 and became head of geologists there at SOCAL. One of the most helpful bedouin scouts was Khamees Bin Ramthan of the <i>Ajman</i> tribe who helped Steinky in his work. In 1934, a Fairchild-71 airplane specially-made for long-distance air-photography work landed at Al-Jubeil town in Saudia and started further advanced search from the air. (Note: this bedouin was credited at discovering the first oil field which was drilled in December 6th, 1936 at 32 kliks north-west of Al-Damam (<i>Al-Alat</i> Oil Field)).<br />
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That field wasn't a commercial success. So, American geologists went to another oilfield-site they had drilled earlier called Damam-7 to deepen it further which led to discovering large oil reserves that were right under the first excavation work that took place in the early 30's. Ten other oilfields were drilled later on (thanks to Ramthan's efforts and scout work), and together they formed what was called "The Damam Dome". Later, numerous other oil fields were drilled at the hands of Max Steinky and his team like Al-Ghwar, Baqiq, and Al-Qateef oilfields which make the 'main' Saudi Arabian fields until this very day. In 1951, Al-Safanyah oil field was discovered 225 kilos off the shores of Dahran, which became the largest underwater oil-field in the world. Damam-7 itself was shut later in 20th, April 1989 by ARAMCO (the new name of SOCAL) after producing almost 325 million barrels!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Saudi ARAMCO workers, 1940's.</span></td></tr>
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Old ARAMCO employees say that Damam-7 (was later known as "Lucky Number 7") has set Saudi Arabia to lead the world in oil-production. During WW-II it made between 12-15 thousand barrels per day (bpds) which was astronomical by those times' standards. This 'Luck' wasn't anyone's but the Jews, British, and Americans who changed the face of earth after that war was over ushering in the nuclear age as a carrot-at-the-end-of-a-stick always threatening the world with it (America's the world's sole nuclear threat if ever there will be one), to fulfill hefty world domination plans. Saudi Arabia has now 1/4 of the total world production of oil. 40% of the total reserves of oil are actually in Saudi Arabia and neighbouring Arab-Gulf countries because Ameri-British colonialists wanted it to be 'this way', or no way and in Mecca of all places... for some secret religious reasons that has arcane eschatonic roots going back to prophecies of Biblical times written as far as 6000 years ago by the Hebraic Jews who fooled when they fooled at first, their own people, and I'd rather not talk about it any further in this music blog. I keep this to myself. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">An early sea oilfield, 1940's.</span></td></tr>
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Iran's oil reserves and most of those of close Arab countries have shared 'vent-tunnels' and some say that the First Gulf War in 1991 was fought because Iraq tried to drill for an oil field near Kuwait that would have siphoned Kuwaiti oil off to Iraq, and who convinced them on doing so? Saudi monarchs backed by American high-ranking intelligence officers. Iraq was invaded two times earlier, and now it's Iran's turn. Odd thing is, these two were both accused as 'nuclear threats' by the western-run media. Iraq's history now, but those allegations proved... wrong. Huh? Small wonder, since Americans and their allies; the Brits, want the world now to shake with the fear of a neo-holocaust at Iran's feet with its non-existence nukes. Iran has no nuclear heads. Iran and the Shi'ite ruling party (F.Y.I.: shi'ites make only 47% of the total population of Iran), is part of the game itself. Point. Iran was used as a wild card by American C.I.A. ever since the Islamic Revolution days (ah, another one comes around right?), as this 'wild card' they kept during the early 80's and in more than 450 days of "Live!" broadcasts of Islamic terrorists seen by millions of fat, bored, neurotic, diet-fucked, hormonally-imbalanced, crazy fuckeredup Americunts watching their <i>'aww!</i>'-fella 'Merrycans as hostages in the Iran-U.S. Embassy debacle! Whoa, babe! <i>Les' go gerr dees goat-grabbin' somnabitches, Jawnny Boi!</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">One of ARAMCO's early trucks.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">ARAMCO Saudi worker, 40's.</span></td></tr>
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The Arabian Gulf (that name was changed in all world maps from Persian into... Arabian by the British), was shaking with fear of Iran because the people in say, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the U.A.E. who were bred by Americans on the same diets of fast-food shipped directly from the United States, and inoculation programmes that started way back in the 30's and 40's by the good-intentioned "ARAMCowboys", and education system (ARANCO has opened around 4000 schools in Saudi Arabia, and had its own T.V. station to educate these nomads in the 50's). ARAMCO has worked so hard ever since to change the mind-set of these nomads and make them hate the east, and love the west so much, that it's said that whenever you see an old man in Saudi Arabia who talks perfect English you should know that he is one of ARAMCO's retirees. Nomads... I mean, Saudis even thank that company wholeheartedly and almost conjure images of angelic wings for that filthy '<i>Americunning</i>' company's invasion of such a holy land. It sometimes makes their eyes filled with dewy tears!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">ARAMCO's T.V. truck, 50's.</span></td></tr>
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Other European countries took a share of that 'holy' pie in the sky: Holland came with its experts dressed as Shell Co. to build the longest oil pipe-line (TAP-LINE) in the history of mankind: a 1,212 kilometer-long pipe that connects the kingdom with the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea where oil could be safely transported to refineries and shipped all the way to Europe so that Eurofags would yeah, be able to stop by a gas station and curse on top of their heads (as Europeans often do) of why... gas prices are so fuxspensive like this?! Back to Saudi Arabia now, and Engineer Ali Al-Na'aeemi, the Saudi Minister of Petroleum has announced recently, that the kingdom has plans of raising its excavatory works from 50% to 70% in average to followup on the expanding world demand of oil and its products. Saudi Arabia is known as the world's largest producer of oil, but not gas. They want to stay a vital player in this game producing more and more oil than what they have already done. The world itself as a whole has produced almost 1 trillion barrels since the late 19th century, and some say that there are 5 other trils waiting to be discovered and used at the least. In Simple English words: The wars will never stop.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">An old ARAMCO truck, 1950's.<br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Petroleum and Arabs.</span></td></tr>
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Anyways, Saudi Arabia is 'old newspapers' now, as Qatar has taken the title of "The Richest Country in the World" just a few days ago in a Forbes magazine survey. The secret word? Gas... Natural Gas (Nat-Gas). Why again? Because when nat-gas was discovered in huge quantities around Syria, Libya, and Egypt... Qatar feared competition from these countries as most would go sell their gas using less tariffs than Qatar does. Qatari officials and heads of state have been meeting with delegations from the U.S., U.K., the E.U., and Israel too in order for this gagglefuck to reach a 'negotiating price' for their own gas on the condition that these western forces (in addition to Israel), shall take action to stop those countries from even thinking of making any plans of extracting their nat-gas reserves. Some studies ominously foresaw Arabian Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar in a post-Pan-Arab-Nat-Gas scenario going back to their pre-60's days when most of the population around the Arabian Gulf were as poor as a church's mouse. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">ARAMCO's archive: bedouins near a watering hole, 40's.</span></td></tr>
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QALCO (owned by <span class="st">Qatar Industrial Services Establishment (QIS) and run by Al-Alfia Group 'Millennium Group' which has tight relations to British Jewish banking families and wealthy Ameri-Jews), </span>is now the new SALCO. One letter change? Eh. The aftermath is still not quite visible not after almost two years of these Arab Youth riots that took the region by a storm. Affirmed information has traced the plans of making such chaos in the Middle-East to as far as 2006. President Obama signed the scenarios in August of that year giving American intelligence agents all over the world the green 'go-light' on the whole shebang, that damn nigger. This world is being given news-feeds about the same story of terrorism and human-rights' violations done by the Arab regents, presidents and what-all, when all of these now labelled as 'dictators' by the west were put there in the power seat in preplanned 60's coups and communist-backed revolutions. What a pathetic situation! And, how little do you know, dear readers. It's not time for revolution in the west, no. Only the east should revolt against his leaders because, damn... they have no democracy whatsoever. Communism and Capitalism are one and the same thing. And, all today's world's revolutionists are tomorrow's tyrants. Today's righteous are tomorrow's bigots.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Pictures of early Aramco workers 30's-40's.</span></td></tr>
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Today's Arab (Great?) Revolt is also... Yesterday's Great Arab Revolt, only change is... it's now based not on oil but on gas. Crude oil is normally
used to generate electric power and countries in the west like Holland,
and Britain cannot afford the high cost of excavating for deeper oil wells. In the mid-90's, geological surveys discovered large reservoirs of
natural gas around the western coast of Syria near Lattakia port city
(Note: an
intended invasion by a multi-national force of around 23 countries was <i>pre-scenario</i>'d in The Eager Lion military excercises that were held right here in Jordan and will come trying to invade Syria just like they did to Iraq, and in the same way the west has tried to topple down the Ottomans one hundred years ago from Jordan. Be prepared).
Syria has built the world's largest gas-refinery in Lattkia with
Venezuelan and Iranian money, both countries are the stick which
American invaders used 10 years ago to lead Syria into the ruse. In the
northern shores of the Libyan Mediterranean Sea, hundreds of billions of
cubic meters of natural gas were discovered, and now Qaddafi's dead? Hmm.
Egypt has built one of the largest nat-gas cities (<i>Madinat Mubarak</i> in
D'mieat, that stretches over a one-million cubic-meter expansion in the
north), and uh... Hussni Mubarak's dying? Fer piss' sake babes! Oops, I mean gas' sake wake the fuck up, goddamn it. Let's talk about 'God' here, aite?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Qasas, or cutting hands of theives. 50's.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">An Aramco driving license, 80's.</span></td></tr>
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Saudi Arabia after all has the world's worst human rights' record (so much for democracy, amirite?), and still it's not America's business. They are banning women to drive a simple car because they say Islam forbade this almost 1500 years ago when donkeys and camels were like the Bentleys and Rolls-Royces that these fatso fuckedup religiots drive nowadays, and still... they allow American and western 'unveiled' women in oil companies to drive their cars. Hmm. Ohkay. And... the royal family is known as a bunch of stupid goons who abuse drugs, alcohol, women, and even have slaves (Oman banished slavery in 1970! And, Saudi Arabia still has it going on unabashed. It's called now 'neo-slavery'). They adhere to the most strict Islamic rulings against simple crimes like theft (petty theft most of the time can cost you your hands), while these fat thieving Al-Sauds get past the Allah-censor unscathed. What? Why? Don't these have fat hands like billyo? It's a fucked up situation all under the blessing of the western world powers. They're leading the way now in these Youth Arab Spring uprisings you watch your T.V. as you eat your dinner. These monied Saudis just want to make sure that their masters would always be descending enough to buy their petrol and gas at almost dirt-cheap prices. Win-win, babes. Win-Win. <br />
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Religious Wars are fought for no-one and thus are won by nobody. What are these Youth/Arab Revolts for?
Democracy I hear some of you say? Well, fuck you. No. There is no such thing as Democracy, sons. It's all done for the next-best substitute of Arab rulers: Islamist fundamentalists. When these will be given the new ruling seats, the west will rest their cockles for good in the knowledge that nothing will work out for Arabs, and nobody will know about their 'undergoings' in the region. Who's leading the wars
today again after 100 years of those last ones? Americans. And, the British. Oh, sheesh y'all! Guys... I am sorry to say this, but again... I'm not: if the western people keep eastern people killing each other in the name of God (theirs, yours, mine, or nobody's because we have Christians, and Jews as well as Muslims here) while their oiled, black hands are full of Arabs' blood that runs right now in Syrian, Libyan, Egyptian, and Iraqi towns and cities as the petrodollars that you western readers are already hard working to pay your governments for whatever heating-gas, and car petrol you were conditioned to use and depend on... are still flowing like one of those oil gushers... naturally... you are being stupid. You should not allow this to continue. If you do know this... then fine, but if you don't then that's worse.<br />
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The war in Syria is starting right now as you read this. It's called by some writers, "Spain-II" (a reference to make it sound like a civil-war), or some called it The Prelude to WW-III. It's backed 110% by Qatar royal-fuckaroos, and Saudi religio-bastards. Religious monarchies around the Arab world like Saudi Arabia were created and breast-fed slowly on a culture of hate and vengeance mastered by the U.S. and the U.K.. They want the east to take it all on the west (you, yourselves! Can you fuckin' read?) so that, one day... you won't blame your 'civil' countries in case that... they had to go with wars with these 'rouge' nations, or liberate the poor Arabs from what they themselves have given them years ago when your parents were getting high in the 60's. Islam is not a living religion, even Prophet Mohammed said that it will wither away as soon as he dies. A new Franken-Islam is all of what you can see now. It's what the Jews know by heart, and this is how they use one religion/faith/philosophy/etc... against another. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche said once that, "Jews have taught the World hatred." So yeah fuck this world if it's only Jews running it.<br />
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Fuck this world stiff for fuckin' ever if it can't change, and when it can only change or ask for any change... only, for the sole benefit of a handful of world powers and fat, ugly, boring-bored leaders. And, yeah... smile and say "cheddar!" world leaders for your time has come to kiss dickhole for good because some people think that you're no longer needed. Huh? What do they call these, babes? Remind me, someone: World Government? The New Zeitgeist? Pathway to the Stars? The Secret Temple Pilots? Planet Zog? Shame! What a shame, indeed! We are living in an informavore-world full to hilt with bullshit and lies. All of this you see arawndya is a huge heap of horse manure, bovine scatology, cow-yard confetti, you name it. This change they're talking about and filling the '<i>Madia</i>' (Mad Media) with is going to come soon mother fuckers. Very fuckin' soon.<br />
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That's all, people.<span style="font-size: small;"> See ya when I see ya!<br /><br /><i>Salam!</i><br /><br />H.H.</span></div>
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</div>Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-21596515625945828022012-06-07T00:23:00.001+03:002012-06-07T00:25:42.632+03:00The Audiotopia Presents: An Extra-Special Post for The Arabs' Singer, Mohammed Abdou. Very Soon!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">*AUTO-TALK*<br />Introduction done? (*check). 75% of the <u>100</u> albums upped and ready to DL? (*check). Hmms... and some of the rarest pictures and most inclusive information fulfilled and fortified? Done dealio. Are we covering all bases here, Hamz?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Sure we did. <br /><br />Work is almost done on the best post that I'm writing so far. <i>Fuxcitin'!</i> In the next couple of days, you're to be treated to a very special post for Saudi singer numero uno, Mohammed Abdou!<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Unlike any extensive blog-posts I've once read, this one will dwarf them all: it's going to be an amazing extra-special post for such an amazingest singer!<br /><br />Get ready, babes for the best jams ever. <br /><br /><br />Frozen peas and cool carrots nows.<br /><br /><i>BOOM!</i><br /><br />H.H.</span></div>
Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-12546799409572694702012-05-31T04:10:00.001+03:002012-09-23T20:13:00.077+03:00The Continuiance of Blagging vs. Blogging: Turkish Psychedelic Music! Taken Down.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Sistahs, and bradahs...<br /><br />This is some serious shiot 'ere: one of the Blogosphere's best Anadolu-Pop and Turkedelica music-sites (Turkish Psychedelic Music!) was taken down yesterday. The owner, </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Yavuz Šavata's <a href="http://www.facebook.com/turkishpsychedelicmusic">Facebook</a> is still running, luckily so.<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Now, with SoundCloud implementing a Copyright-Filter in their website, Blogger.com getting e-raped and rather ripped to bits and pieces, File-Sharing outlets shutting their doors by numbers, even there are some bars and night-clubs that are being closed after some CR-infringement issues... this new <i>culturicide</i> is actually an old form of an estuarine old one that has always tried to control it. <br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">What will be left is whatever the U.S. government wants its stupider-than-thou non-people to stay listening to, and yes it worked wonders on these fat fucks: they are mere automatons who cash-roll their cuntry's asspirations (no misspells there) at world control. It's so sad, I ask one sole question: Who the butt finger-fuck are you, dear faggotry Americans?</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> Kiss my ass right on the crack mother feathers! <br /><br />This world shall triumph above all your hate and pathos. And, yes... R.I.P. T.P.M.: you were one of my favourite blogsites.<br /></span></span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><br />Update (23/09/2K12):</b><br />Turkish Psychedelic Music! is back at WordPress rocking a colourful, psychedelic outfit like never before! I urge all readers of this post to go <a href="http://turkishpsychedelicmusic.wordpress.com/">here</a> to get the best of Turklar music being offered on the web.<br /><br /><i>Hell yeah!</i><br /><br /><br />H.H.</span></span></div>
Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-43156375319541105922012-05-30T04:11:00.001+03:002012-07-22T00:32:49.578+03:00Beirutiat & Rahbanyat - بيـروتيـات و رحـبانـيات.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Here are more cassettes, LPs, and CD albums from 70's & 80's Lebanon. This is a great collection of Leb-Pop compilations collected and assorted by enthusiasts and commercial music companies in Lebanon and the Middle-east like the famous EMI-La Voix de L'Orient Series and the rare VoB Beirutiat Series (Voice of Beirut).</span><br />
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<b style="color: #990000; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Pictures:</span></b><br />
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<tr style="color: white; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mont-Liban. circa 1870s (oldest picture of a debke).</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="color: white;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: xx-small;">Petite Danseuse Arab - A young bedouin Lebanese dancer.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="color: white; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Lebanese Bedouin Rababa Player<br />Beyrouth - 1890s.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="color: white; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Group of Lebanese Bedouin Dancers<br />Beyrouth - 1910s.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="color: white; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A Group of Lebanese Bedouin Musicians - Lebanon 1890s.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="color: white; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Bridal Dance - Nazareth. circa 1920s.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="color: white; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Liban -<i> Danse de Sabre</i>: Lebanese Bedouins dance 40s.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="color: white;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: xx-small;">Caucasus Debke, circa 1944.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="color: white;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Syrian <i>debke </i>from the north, circa 1930's.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Syrian country wedding <i>debke</i>. circa 1940.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Debke</i>, Palestine 70's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Derbeke</i> Player, Lebanon. 1950s.</span></div>
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<tr style="color: white;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: xx-small;">Baalebk Festival, Lebanon 1970s.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="color: white; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A dancing girl from a Baalebk Festival troupe 60s.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /><i>Marvilicious pictures!</i></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: xx-small;">Thank you Fairouz, and see ya soon in another post just... for you.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /><br />That's all for now, folks. Enjoy the beats. Fairouz takes a bow, too in that animated pic as you can see, because it's time to make way for another country from the Middle-east... guesses? Anyone?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">It's The Saudi Arabian Kingdom, or Saudi Arabia. Our upcomin' Arab singer was actually nicknamed "The Arabs' Artist". Please, be sure to check the upcoming new post here at the Audiotopia for it'll feature one helluva singer whose life wasn't that easy when he first began his career, but now is considered one of the wealthiest Arab singers (if not the wealthiest...): Mohammed Abdou.<br /></span><br />
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The new post is going out as a dedication for <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="http://yazeed.net/">Yazeed</a></span> from yazeed.net. I must admit as I often do these 'Ode-To' posts here that... in all honesty, I don't know any blogger for whom I give such a dedicatory post from a bar of regular soap. All I can offer them (so far they've been Nick@ <a href="http://ghostcapital.blogspot.com/">GhostCapital</a>, Tim Abdellah@ <a href="http://moroccantapestash.blogspot.com/">Moroccan Tape Stash</a>, Gerrit@ <a href="http://lolaradio.blogspot.com/">LolaRadio</a>, and Gary Sullivan@ <a href="http://bodegapop.blogspot.com/">BodegaPop</a>) is a small post or two for one or more of the singers they feature at their own blogs. I know, I might sound strange 'ere but I do it for the sheer love of music. Full-stop.</div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />So, be prepared: Mohammed Abdou (<i>Abu Nourah</i>, or <i>Abu-Abdou</i> as he's known as by millions of '<i>Abdaoui</i>' fans) will get... shall I spell the beans? Ohkay... 100 albums! Correcto mundo, ya heard it right: One hundred albums! His post is going to be so ginorhumoungiantigargantuan!! I already started with ripping some of the album cassettes, in addition to writing a short biography full of the rarest pictures that, I am sure, even hardcore Saudi fans have never seen before.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Stay</span> debke</i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>-ing at the mo'!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /><br />Au Revoir for now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">H.H.</span></div>
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Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-51654465903044998172012-05-28T15:32:00.002+03:002012-05-28T15:32:21.096+03:00Must Be Bitten By The Debke Bug! More Lebanese Music: Beirutiat & Rahbanyat from The 70's & 80's. Soon!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Howdy!</span><br style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><br style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">More old music albums from the 70's and the 80's with some of the rarest Leb-Pop songs and artists of that era are comin' soon yer way. The next post will feature well over a dozen of these Lebanese melodies. Oh, yease! Yease!</span><br /><br />
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<br style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Nothing is too much when it comes to music. And, here... greed can be good. Trust me. So, lads and ladettes... time to roll one more time them thar carpets fer yet, another <i>debke</i> sesh!<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>Shak'em uppa!</i></span><br style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><br /><br style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Enjoy as ever... and yeah, see ya soon.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">H.H.</span></div>Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-10004061714423869222012-05-27T22:15:00.000+03:002012-05-30T03:13:12.182+03:00The Singing Rose: A Tribute to Warda Al-Ghazaieryah.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Greets from Egypt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Warda's death still resonates with sadness at the loss of one of the "columns of Arabic music" around the Arab world, and yesterday her obituary was formally announced at Al-Shazilyah Al-Hamedyah mosque at the Muhandiseen district in Cairo, Egypt by her long-time producer and friend Muhsen Jaber head of A'alam Al-Fan for music production and the C.E.O. of <i>Mazzika</i> Group.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Her death was reason enough to get me to write her an <a href="http://theaudiotopia.blogspot.com/2012/05/rip-warda-al-ghazaieryah-rose-of-arabs.html">Obit-Post</a></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">a few days ago, but that wasn't enough for her. She was one of the best Arab singers and a very much loved woman who left a wide array of beautiful <i>Tarab </i>recordings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Here, and in this newer post, you're going to get some more of her albums and songs in good audio-quality, plus a mini-biography of her life to continue what we've begun at the previous post along with some of her rarest pictures as a remembrance for her and her great voice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Warda Al-Ghazaieryah (also spelled Wardah Ijaziria/ El-Djazariya - وردة الـجـزائـرية:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Her obituary on Saturday 26th of this month was heavy with tears, high-sounding sighs, and then again smiles. She was loved by most of those Egyptian artists and singers attending her last farewells-giving at that famous mosque in Cairo. But, unlike earlier in her life, Warda was hated by a lot of envious singers and artists most of whom wished her death a long time before it finally took place ten days ago on the 17th of May, 2012. Let's invite Warda to kick in her story, shall we?</span></span><br />
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The story is a bit sad, but one should really leave bygones to stay bygones. Her story started in 22nd July, 1932 (most websites refer to that date as either 1938/1939, or 1940 all of which are wrong dates for her birthday). She was born in Puteaux; a French town where her parents took refuge at from the Second World War erupting at their homeland Algiers. Her father was an Algerian expatriate (Si Mohammed Fotouki, also named El-Hadj Fotouki), who was born in Souk Al-Ahras region that borders Tunis. Amazighs call this town Taggast. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">He fought against the French occupation of Algiers and her mother who's a Moroccan-Jew (she wasn't Lebanese and that family 'Yemout' that most say she belonged to was a fake pseudo-name the family decided upon in order to stay in Lebanon when they fled there in 1955)<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Starting at the very early age of ten, singing revolutionary songs at her father's club Tum-Tum in the Latin quarter in Paris, a Tunisian producer named Ahmad Al-Tijani heard her voice and took her to the French-speaking radio (which was run by the colonialist French who didn't like her songs at all, later forcing her family to leave France alltogether in 1958).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Tijani trained her for two years in a children's talent program under the auspice of another Tunisian artist and composer Al-Sadeq Thuriya who taught her how to sing one famous Umm-Kalthoum tune '<i>Salo Qalbi</i>' written by Riyadh Assunbathi. She progressed very well in the singing arena so much that Ahmad Hachlaf manager of the Arabic EMI company in France was so interested in recording the young girl, and later invited her to their studios in France to record her first ever song '<i>Ya Ummi</i> <i>Ya Ummi</i>' (My Mother, My Mother, included at the Early Warda album) in 1952.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">During that time and in the mid-50s, her father's anti-French activities were ousted by French intelligence who withdrew the French nationalities of both his and the rest of the family, and expelled them outside France to Lebanon (he couldn't come back to his original homeland Algiers being a wanted revolutionary there). Warda went traveling with her family to east Beirut at Aliyah district, and started singing at the famous Tanius nightclub in Mahalat Al-Zaytoun the same revolutionary songs which again weren't what the carefree Lebanese people wanted to hear, and saw herself and the family in Damascus after she was invited by a Syrian composer (Mohammed Mouhsen, and later Abdel-Fatah Sukkar who also wrote music for her), to sing her revolutionist songs there. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">She sang for one Jamilah Bouhreid a tune about this Algerian <i>mujahidah </i>who was killed later by the French army, written by Michel Tameh and composed by Afif Ridwan. That song became a hit in Damascus... every composer rushed to write her his tunes, and among those was Filmon Wehbi: a very revolutionary composer who wrote many pro-commie songs about revolutionaries like Che Guevara at that time. In Damascus, another 'Warda' sang there and that's why the managers of the stage insisted at calling her 'Al-Ghazaieryah' to distinguish her from that other Syrian less-scintillating starlet. She admitted to never liking that moniker at all, because it stigmatized her as only Algerian and not pan-Arabic. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Earlier, and around the beginning of the 50's when she was just 17 she was invited to sing at Cairo for Farid Al-Atrache who liked her young voice but asked her parents to wait until it got more mature. This happened when Lebanese producer Hilmi Raffleh invited her to Cairo to act at one of his films where a bouquet of roses was awaiting her at the lobby of the hotel where she stayed in Cairo sent by Assunbathi himself who composed to her 'Al-Jazayer' poem which she sang, and then Mohammed El-Mouji who gave her one of Saleh Al-Hazaki's nationalistic poems. Both of those composers were foreknown as Umm-Kalthoum's best, and in no time... Warda became a huge star in Egypt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Her date with fame and fortune came when she sang at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dub012g3lx8&list=UUUPJzVYVi1DEucuYR7NctGg&index=1&feature=plcp"><i>Al-Watan Al-Akbar</i></a> operette in 1958 which was written by Ahmad Shafiq, and composed by Mohammed Abdelwahab. In it, she sang side by side with Abdel Halim Hafez, Shadia, Fayda Kamel, Najat Assaghierah, and Sabah. President Jamal Abdel-Nasser invited her again in 22th of November, 1962 to sing at Adwa'a Al-Madinah festival in Damascus and there she sang her song about </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">'<i>Kulouna Jamilah</i>' (We All Are Jamilah) to a deafening standing-O</span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">. During her short film-career in Cairo in which she acted in two films '<i>Almaz</i>' directed by Raffleh himself and filmed in 1962 starring next to Adel Mamoun, and in 1963, <i>Amirat Al-Arab</i> with Egyptian star Rushdi Abazah she met her first husband; </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">a military Algerian man named </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Jamal Qasiri</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> whom she married and went back with him to Algiers in 1963.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">For the next nine
years she stayed silent as her husband asked her never to sing again
dimming her lights for a good decade, but her life blossomed during that
time with two smaller '<i>wardas</i>', or roses: her children Riyadh
(named after her first mentor Riyadh Assunbathi), and Widad. In 1972,
she came back to Cairo at the same time when Umm-Kalthoum was an old woman,
Layla Murad wasn't active, Souad Mohammed was a married mother, Shadia
and Sabah were busy with films, Fayza Ahmad was still burrowing her
pathway in the singing concerts around Cairo, and Najat was solemn in
her moody songs. As a female tarab singer, her place was beckoning her
awaiting for her voice to come back singing two songs: <i>El-Eioun Essoud</i> 'The Black Eyes', and <i>Wallah Zaman</i> 'It's Been So Long', followed by her third film Sawt El-Houb (Sound of Love) which was filmed in 1973.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">That same year was devastating to most Arab singers. It was hailed as a "victory year" by communist Arab governments after the collateral Arab armies won the 'bottle-neck' Sinai Desert war (<i>Youm Kippour</i>) against Israel. All songs became stupid, repetitive, sham-jingoistic commie popaganda tunes. Warda's career was saved by the genie-in-a-bottle and her second husband Baligh Hamdy after she divorced her first one back in Algiers' when she broke the silence after Algiers president at that time Houari Bou-Medien asked her to sing at the tenth anniversary of Algiers' independence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">T</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">heir first meeting in a Cairo studio came at loggerheads during the recording sesh that ended with both accusing each other of being so
selfish. Warda didn't like Baligh at all in her words: she even said in
an interview that she hated him. But, this hate turned into a passionate
love affair causing the divorce of her first husband Qasiri gaining her freedom at long deserving last (Note: she married a third man in secrecy, but maybe this is just 'gossipoisie' nonsense even when the sources are credible. She spent almost half of her life fighting gossip and was said that she even formed an anti-gossip society around Cairo in the late-70's!). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The love birds got married
in 1972 (some say their marriage lasted for only one year, and others say it lasted until 1979, which makes sense but nothing is sure here).</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> Baligh Hamdy took her under his wing even if his career was a fledgling one itself. Among many tunes that he has composed for her was a theatre musical called <i>Tamr Hinna </i>in 1975, followed by many songs and some T.V. appearances in a series called <i>Awraq Al-Ward</i> (Rose's Petals) in 1979. Another T.V. appearance was filmed at Dubai's T.V. at a variety show (<i>Jadid Fe Jadid</i>: All That's New), with the famous song that Baligh had written for her <i>Binlif, N'lif, N'lif </i>(We Turn, Turn, Turn - You can hear this wonderful song as a bonus in the downloads below), singing at that show with the old-school giants like Layla Murad, and new ones like Moroccan pop singer Samira Said (Baligh used to write Samira's early stuff, and his purported extramarital affair with her had cost them their marriage, unfortunately).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Warda was so easily recognized for her musical talent by other music geniuses such as <i>Al-Mosiqar</i> Mohammed Abdelwahab who spotted her so early on in her career (they met in the late 50's in Lebanon as she sang without knowing of his presence). This other genius gave her a tremendous opportunity to prove herself among those earliest giants of Tarab singers and she staid close to him and faithful until his very last hours before he died in 4th May, 1991 crying in her car for three hours parked in front of his house. She sang <i>Bawada'ak </i>(I Say Goodbye To You) especially for him before he finally died, knowing that she's going to lose him for good. She used to call him Baba or Father, and he made 50% of her personality along the way. In the late 80's, a new singing style for most Tarab singers was the norm whereas songs became shorter after averaging almost hour-long-plus "pieces" in the 70's. Tarab music changed forever, and it was an omen of the death of Romanticism in the Arab popular music circles after the passing of Abdel Halim, Umm-Kalthoum, Farid, and Abdel Wahab. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Warda had collaborated in the late-80's with new composers like Ammar Al-Sharaei who wrote for her many tunes, Mohammed El-Mouji (he worked with her for the album Zahabyat Warda, or her Golden hits remade in the mid-90s), then finally Salah Al-Sharnoubi who wrote '<i>Batwanness Beek</i>' (With You, I Am Not Alone), and '<i>Harramt Ahebbak</i>' (I Vowed Never To Love You Again), among many other wonderful neo-romantic songs, composing most of her sixth film's music (<i>Lieh Ya Dunya </i>- 1994), only for them two to fall at odds in 1996 and just like the case was with her ex-husband Baligh, they got back the next year to work together for her 1997 album '<i>Hubbak Mawasem</i>' (Your Love Is Like The Seasons). Well, her career was pretty much like the seasons: always changing and finding herself hopping from this composer to that one until she stopped singing after her last album in 2001 (<i>Ana Liea Mien Gherak</i>) because she felt a bit ill, coming back only in the same year to sing a cassette written to her by </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Jamilah Bouhreid</span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">'s brother (she used to sing about her in the 50's) falling into a musical coma again after an open-heart surgery followed by a liver-transplant surgery in the same year that has left her very weak. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">She went back to Algiers to recuperate and came back to T.V. in 2004 to be honoured by some Arab pop singers like the Kuwaiti Abdallah Al-Ruweishid, and Egyptian pop singers Angham, and Ihab Tewfic in a Lebanese satellite channel programme called <i>Nawart El-Dar</i> where she was filmed in her Algerian home taking care of her garden, kittens, and a pet parrot she nicknamed Pavarotti. After a strenuous bout in a musical wedding party for Amir Abdel-Migeed's wedding (a well-known composer) in one of Cairo's biggest five-star hotels, she fell seriously ill and was diagnosed with liver cancer. Admitted later to a hospital in Paris she went under chemo-therapy for months, but she stopped it because she lost almost 35 kilos of her body weight and most of her hair, and was forced to apologize from singing live at many festivals during her therapy and treatment phase because she grew weaker, and was unable to withstand the pressure of the stage act anymore, in addition to her looks after the chemo. Her career was signaling its last days, sadly... still she was optimistic and never was seen during those gruesome days without her pretty smile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Warda died after
giving 40 years of her life straight out for nothing but music. She's to
be remembered for this alone and will forever be regarded as one of the
Arab world's best female singers who entertained millions (and still
does, trust me...) for half a decade. Her career was if anything... the
stuff of true legends. She sang at the Olympia theatre in Paris with Charles Aznavour </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">'La Bohéme' and after that she sang in 1995 at the Palais de Congres de Paris where many Egyptian and Arabic singers also had their epitome careers' moments at this old theatre's stage. Her life was a personification of that word, and she was known never to sleep the night before any concert. Also, one thing that was known about her was her infatuation with cats: she had all kinds of these moggies! <i>Ces't La Vie de Bohéme</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />Her Career:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Her career can be divvied up into four stages: 1952-1955, 1955-1963, 1972-1992, and 1992-2010. Today we're going to get a listening opportunity to some of her best works from each of these four stages in (wait it) twenty two albums! and one bonus plus two singles that are all available to download from the links below. This is nothing compared to her extensive discography which I shall add more in future posts into this blog as time allows it. In the meantime, enjoy DL-ing these songs by the Arab world's Rose: Warda Al-Ghazaieryah (or, <i>Al-Arabiyah</i> as she might have liked it better). <br /><br />Rest in beautiful peace, Warda.<br /><br />Enjoy.<br /><br /><b style="color: #741b47;">The Music:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?7oe2b2j6burxw31" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Warda - Aayza Mo'ougeza</a></span><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b>.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?fk4kn861d7gg3c8" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Warda - Ahbabna Ya Ein - Maghadeer</a></span><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?551h9bddcekh6p7">Warda - Akdeb Aleek</a></span><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?647fgp6mrv11w1h">Warda - Andah A'aliek</a></span><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?bzjbg2s4l5w2x4r">Warda - Esma'aouni</a></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?klkue5z41mjap3z" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Warda - Harramt Ahebbak</a></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?f5yyr4c8pcxh32m">Warda - Hikayti Ma'a El-Zaman</a></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?cizeoxfvii4yo42">Warda - Kelmet Itab</a></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?uihxw9urlhkog1p">Warda - Khaleek Hina</a></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?1id9zrqnve64tyd">Warda - Ma Endaksh Fekra</a></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?s7675tumkv2hbpj">Warda - Madritouch</a></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?smgz6xuahkz87ei">Warda - Welaw Ennak Ya Habibi Ba'eid</a></span><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?86k1v4ceaf8yc6f" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Warda - Wilad El-Halal</a></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?g2cll79c6o9dlat">Warda (with Baligh Hamdy) - Binlif, N'lif, N'lif - Single</a></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?w8xn4oi0g3a9bio">Warda - (Koulinah) Jamilah - Single</a></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?b5jzjd0k8hr7h1r">Warda - Early Songs (1952-1955)</a></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Dear blawggers: </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Again, this is just a small glimpse at one of the most prolific music careers in the Arab world. All these albums and cassettes were chosen from different periods of her musical creativity; albeit covering her whole career that spanned more than 40 years. For example, you got her early rare stuff that she sang in either Algerian or in her thick Lebanese accent in the mini-album that I myself collected for your listening pleasures as an archive of her earliest known records.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Bonuses are two single songs uploaded individually because they resemble important milestones in her career: (<i>Koulinah</i>) <i>Jamilah</i> (We All Are Jamilah) that she sang live in 1962 in Damascus' Officer's Club at the invitation of Jamal Abdel-Nasser and got her first fame across the Arab world, and the other one is <i>Binlif</i>, <i>N'lif</i>, <i>N'lif</i> sang with Baligh Hamdy live on Dubai T.V. in 1979 at the end of her relationship with him which ushered in her more pop-ish songs (Note: huge thanks must go to Yazeed@ yazeed.net for the headsup on this <a href="http://yazeed.net/2012/05/21/%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%87-%D8%8C-%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%BA-%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%80%D9%80%D9%84%D9%81/">one</a>. You can also watch it on his wonderful weblog).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">At the end of this obit-post, I shall conclude by quoting one comment at an Arabic music forum; its words were laden with sadness, yet were so rosy just like Warda herself was. The writer said, "maybe the rose is gone, but her scent is still among us." He means her music. Yes, in all honesty she cannot die or wither away like any rose: Warda was one of those singers who were meant to sing, and live forever in a song. May her soul find its lasting peace in the hands of God. Amen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">That's my tribute for Warda Al-Ghazaieryah guys... I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did myself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">If you need more of her stuff, you can click the link below for some of her films (full versions watchable on the 'Tube), and some of her best songs caught live on video. Dig.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">-Films And Videos:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://diamant24-fatenhamama.blogspot.com/search?q=%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A9" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">-</span>Watch all of her Films here</a></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b style="color: #bf9000;">.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Thank you for your time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">See ya soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">H.H.</span></div>Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-52493138588092391982012-05-25T10:10:00.000+03:002012-05-27T01:54:48.895+03:00Intermission: Bonus Compilation - Lubnanyat Zaman - لـبـنـانـيات زمـان.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>Attenshun Shoppas!</i><br /><br />Callin' on all blogsters who frequent these e-quarters:<br /><br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Continuing with a bonus for the last two Intermission posts... this here is a big Compilation that I myself has made with many Lebanese singers and bands (some are very very rare), taken mostly from the 70's and 80's for your special e-njoyment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?4xc73xcwa2k5v05" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Lubnanyat Zaman: Old Lebanese Pop Hits From The 70's & 80's Vol. 1</a></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?jeb6gcb4147nb7t" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Lubnanyat Zaman: Old Lebanese Pop Hits From The 70's & 80's Vol. 2</a><span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?lvgj2bp8y0l9ia8" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Lubnanyat Zaman: Old Lebanese Pop Hits From The 70's & 80's Vol. 3</a><span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?rsnrv8makfks39e" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Lubnanyat Zaman: Old Lebanese Pop Hits From The 70's & 80's Vol. 4</a></span><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><b>.</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />Each track here features a different artist or band (and, few are collaborations with other artists) and they exactly number 75 Lebanese pop singers from the 70's and the 80's. I also wanted this new comp to be special like <a href="http://theaudiotopia.blogspot.com/2012/04/intermission-lebanese-80s-lubnanyat.html">the first one</a>... so, I made a nice front-folder for it from most of the original cassette and LP sleeves.<br /><br />After all and all, it is a good-naturedly quickie look at past happier times in the Middle-East when people were carefree and cool. </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Smile as you listen to these happy songs. </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /><br />I go now. Stay hip, people.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The History of Debka Music:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">دبكة, or دابكة (debke/ dabka/ debkah) is an old style of line-dancing that originated around the Mediterranean basin in ancient times. Not much is known on its earliest origins, but the Greeks had a similar Bacchanalian line-dance in which the dancers held each others' hands and moved in a circle. That dance resembled a huge human circle that erupts from a long line of at least 4 dancers who dance so closely as they moved in slower movement to whatever music which accompanies this terpsichorean enchantment. The Greeks enacted these pagan dances on special occasions such as when the Moon was full, or rather as a worship ritual for the Sun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The circle itself depicts the Sun, and the dancers become the revolving cosmic planets. Some certain order was placed around the Mesopotamia for closely related dances that are said to enact the power of old Gods inside their dancers. But, nothing is known about these now-dead rituals. Religious symbolism of the dance itself is scarcely studied and nothing could be found in any theosophical reference about these dances, but I guess the dancers were a structuralized universe; a unison of bodies and souls. Modern-time line-dances vary so much, there are few similarities left to see now in any of these to those of earlier times. That said, the </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Mediterranean</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> sea (and, the Middle-Eastern part of it in particular), and its countries have so little differences between them and most of the dances found there are really the same. For example, modern Greek dances are almost the same as those in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Also, Eastern European countries so close to Turkey do not vary much from Turkish dances and other forms of Turkish music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Debke itself is thought to have originated in the Balkan region of East Europe, and was taken to the Ottoman Empire at the 16th Century when Turkish imperialists invaded these parts of the world. At the starts of the 19th century some of these Balkans took permanent residence in the Levant region and became naturalized citizens bringing in with them their crafts, music, and dances. Debke was one of those. The Balkan dwellers in the Levant were known as master builders and masons of a high caliber. Their knowledge harks back to hundreds of years of generation after another of builders who had to build reliable houses in extremely cold climates. Building a house was an opportunity to gather people around who used to help with it in the spirit of community, and calls to help that were actually sung in rhythmic tonality to make it more acceptable for other villagers to come and share the hard work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">People started and finished with a dance: <i>debke</i> was the finishing finale where the builders took a rest by getting together with the rest of the master builders or foremen to announce the finishing of the house in a stomp dance. They used to gather at the roof as it was the last part of the house to build and as they did with normal dances on the ground, they moved together in a circle and broke again in a linear dance all the while their hands held up high as to make their feet stomps more powerful to compact the mud roof. The word <i>debke</i> is taken from the Arabic root </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">د-ب-ك which means 'moved', and has many similar root-words to those of animal-walking sounds, and the animals their selves. The Greek dances of yore were animalistic rituals of pagan dances and s</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">ex played a vital rule in these dances, especially where the bachelors got to dance at these lines on top of the roofs, as these houses were built for marriage purposes and/or those intending to get wedded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">At those older times, <i>debkes</i> were male dances, and the women (even in Eastern Europe) had their own special dances that men weren't allowed to share. But, with time the dances became uni-sexed and a very good initiating opportunity to meet new mates to marry, but touching hands wasn't allowed. That's why in a <i>debke </i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">—</span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> and until these very days, a woman must hold a handkerchief in her hand, and the males, too. Not all males: only the <i>rayess</i> (leader) is the one who's supposed to hold the kerchie as he twirls it around in fast circles in the air. In old, Christian East-European times, people used to walk outside their churches dancing these dances and holding a rosemary or any praying beads in their hands raising it in joy and celebration of the newly-weds. The Middle-east has this, too: a leader, or sometimes anyone of the <i>laweeha</i> (the dancers who are able to muster this art), holds a rosemary (called <i>masbaha</i>) as women twist their tongues in <i>zaghareet</i>/<i>walaweel </i>(زغاريت/ولاويل: shouts of joy using the mouth and not the lips) to announce their joy to as far distances as they could.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">As the dance starts, the first instrument to begin playing is usually the reed flute called <i>yarghoul</i>/<i>arghol</i>/<i>maghroun</i> (a Turkish word which means 'the announcer'), or sometimes in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan the <i>mejwiz</i>/<i>shabbaba </i>(entwined double reed-flute) is also used.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> The rhythm starts very slow in elongated sharp tunes as the dancers warm up in slow motions holding their heads down, and moving in 1-2-3 steps (one front, back, front again and then move to the side), hands start to clutch and the line gets created.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> There is also a singer who sings in <i>mawaweel</i>: old, short, memorized poetry usually of two couplets which he fires at the top of his lungs in a shriek (this is not a song, mind) and sometimes places his hands (palm down to his face), to cover his ears as he shouts.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> This is just the start of the <i>debke</i>. This dance is like riding a steep high-cliff on a bike, and when the lead singer reaches the apex... everyone joins, and dances and the ride becomes a very hectic down-hill jamboree that might last for hours nonstop. It's just like sex in all its animalistic expressions played to the beat of a flute and a drum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Th<i>e </i>drum's called<i> </i></span><i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">tablah</i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> (or, <i>darbouka</i>/<i>darbokah</i>/<i>derbake</i>) and is usually played by women, and not men. But, now everybody plays it, even I do play it myself. </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The words to the lead singer's songs usually come infused with sexual stories of how he's asked the lover to come talk to him without anyone seeing them, or how her new haircut makes him wild or how not paying any attention to his flirting has caused him to lose his mind, ... etc. The most common of these songs are </span><i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">dalouna</i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">: دلعونا/دلعونة it's a call for help which originated from those same Balkan builders as they shouted these three words </span><i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Ya Tha Al-Aoun</i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> for God to help with the hard work. Other styles are </span><i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Shemali</i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">: شمالي/هوا الشمالي the singers start by calling on this unfavourable wind to tell their sadness about some matters.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> (Note: the wind itself is God. Most Levant religions has the soul as the source of Godhood inside them. In Judaism it's called <i>rouach</i>, and in Islam <i>rouh</i>. Wind is called <i>reeh</i>, too. The <i>Shemali</i> wind comes from the left side of the earthen hemisphere, and thus one can see a daemonic relation here. But, as usual nothing is really known about this).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Women in the Levant have this habit of burning incense weeds, or throwing perfume on the air which is a way to rejoice the company of the dancers (in olden times, they were from the village and took nothing as a monetary reward for their dance; maybe just the dinner presented at the end of the celebration. Now, the dancers are all paid, or hired), and they thank the singer and his troupe by ululating more and more and louder and louder. A singing style that greets the singers and the guests as well is called </span><i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Maijana</i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> (Ya Min Jana: ميجانا). It's a welcome call for all those who came and accepted the invitation, or even those who are just passing by. </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">One style of <i>debke</i> songs is called </span><i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Zareef</i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> (زريف/زريف الطول), which is sung in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan, mainly. The word means one who's as tall as a giraffe and this means the high-status of his honour among those who know him. It's not the groom, no. It's someone imaginary for whom the song starts. The singer's always asks him to just pass by, or stop and... "let me tell you..." in fast rapid words of two couplets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Other styles of <i>debke</i> dances common in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan are: the </span><i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">jonoubi</i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> dance (southern), </span><i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">sha'rawiyya </i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(has six measures)</span><i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">, </i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>karradi</i> dance (from Kurdistan originally), </span><i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">sahjeh</i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> (accompanied by hand claps), </span><i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">jafrah</i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> (Palestinian dance from the Jafra region in Baqa Al-Gharbiyah town), </span><i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">farradiyeh</i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> (Jordanian women-only standing <i>debke</i>), </span><i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">dehyyeh</i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> (bedouin wedding dance common in Southern Syria and Jordan), <i>tesa'aweyah </i>(nine measure <i>debke</i> of the south of Jordan). The lead singer usually asks the dancers to "sallee a'ala nabi" at the end of the dance, or to wish peace upon the soul of Prophet Mohammed. Amidst the dance itself, he directs every step with his kerchief, or </span><i style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">masbaha</i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">, and some even carry a bamboo rod or a sword as a symbol of leadership placing it high on top of his head, or sometimes even touching the ground with it to announce the lower movements, or those dances that get the dancer closer to the earth, all the while staying so close to the man next to him (sometimes leaning on him with the side of his body). At other times when it gets 'hotter', he flees the line and hits the ground with all of his might in a thudding cloud of dust! It's amazing to dance and/or watch <i>debke</i> in action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Other modern related dances and singing styles are: <i>sahbet ouf</i>/<i>ouf-ouf</i> (an <i>atabah</i> singing style that starts always with repeating the word '<i>ouf</i>'; an exasperate shout), <i>abu-zelouf</i> (a romantic<i> </i>singing style that speaks to an imaginary <i>abu-zelouf</i>, or one who has thick side-burns<i>), a'wadeh </i>(Lebanese dancing and singing style that starts with the words "<i>a'ala Allah te'oud</i>": oh may those days return. A very nostalgic, powerful, sad singing style),<i> wahda-we-nous</i> (1.5 measure which can also be danced to a debke tune), <i>raks al-a'sayah</i> (staff dance using a small walking stick), </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>raks sharki</i>, </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> <i>raks baladi</i>, <i>raks badia</i>... etc.<i><br /></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i><br />Right awn!</i><br /><br />H.H.</span></div>Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170243836568477662.post-13462135247437349462012-05-23T12:15:00.002+03:002012-05-23T12:23:30.089+03:00Intermission II: More Lebanese Melodies! Debke Debke Debke!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>Bang! Bang!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The <i>debke</i> is still goin' on in the Audiotopia with rhythms and beats from feet-stompin', hand-twirlin', rosary-flippin', hip-shakin', <i>Allah!</i>-shoutin' Lebanese people, and you guys and guyettes thought the fun's over?<br /> <br />Heard that, Fairuz?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Well, we got ourselves </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">eight more Lebanese Pop albums </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(thanks to finding the enough time, and havin' particularly nothing much to do today). This time, it'll all be a collection of Various Artists from the 60's, 70's, and the 80's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The artists are never-ending, and when it comes to naming, collecting, uploading, presenting... etc these, it always proves a very hard task: there are literally hundreds of Lebanese singers to document and present.<br /></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: xx-small;">Sabah 'Essabouha': Lebanon's Mother of all Songs.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">It's all the better if you'd get to know these Lebanese 60's-70's-80's pop singers, and my blog is still at its first baby-steps draggin' its primordial imaginary knuckles when it comes to presenting these great artists from years-long neglect.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Here in this second part of the Intermission, we are to have more debke-dancin' frenzy from some Lebanese Various Artists as a bonus to our first part. And, if you're still sitting lumpity-lump on yer collective asses, then...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">GET THE FAWK UP! And dance to these tunes! Artists are too many to count in these eight V/A albums from Lebanon. But, here's a short-list of the best:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Fairuz</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Nasri Shamseddiene</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Sabah</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Wadeh Alsafi</span>, <i></i></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Hoda Haddad</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Georgette Sayegh</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Najah Sallam</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Fadoua Obied</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Laila Ramzy</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Taroub</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Nawal El-Kiek</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Majdaly</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Elie Choueri</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Joseph Azar</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Samir Yezbeck</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Fahd Ballan</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Samira Tewfic</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Issam Rajji</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Filmon Wehbi</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">William Houswani</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Marwan Mahfouz</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Mohammed Cherif</span>, <span style="color: #bf9000;">Boughous Gelilian</span>. <br /><br />Ready?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Enjoyable, innit? And, remember: these albums do not even scratch the bottom when it comes to what's going to be shown here at the Audiotopia. More Leb-Pop music and artists are to be featured soon. It's one of the fastest-growing styles of music in terms of popularity among collectors, diggers, and music ethnosiasts the world over.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Stay tuned for more and more as these afore-mentioned hundreds of Lebanese singers are all going to have their own posts here, and of course, singers from the beautiful Middle-east from Afghanistan to Zanzibar! It's all in the mix, babes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This wraps it up for the Intermission posts about Lebanese Pop. Hope you'll enjoy and yes, dance to these tunes by Sabah, Taroub and the rest of this good collection of long-lost sounds from the Mid-east...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I'm gettin' more pressed to be quantified and qualified. But, there's no pressure, ultimately. Things are way too tenderized for me, and I am trying to grind down my idea machine, 'cause most of it was junk as you've heard me admit however humble it could have come<span style="font-size: small;">. Better things are on the way: 'sall I can tell ya right nowsers.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #677788;"><span style="color: #677788;"><span style="color: #677788;"><span style="color: #677788;"><span style="color: #677788;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />You guys... Rock on!<br /><br />H.H.</span></div>Hammerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462766826817071023noreply@blogger.com2