Arab Nar

Track Listing: 1. Groovsiewhatsie? 2.Dead Cat Catillion 3. Minnie's Lonesome 4. Meltwater 5.Gone Awry 6.Ilha Das Gaivotas 7. Little Overture 8.Romulus & Remus 9.Adzes on the Atolls. 10. Disappearing 11. Belafrican

Release Date: 1989-09-01, Audio CD, Orpheus

Release Date: 1997-07-22, Audio CD, Nuclear Blast Americ

A native of Tiaret, a large city and former capital of western Algeria, Reinette L'Oranaise sang, for over half a century, all the classical treasures from the Arab-Andalucian tradition. At the age of sixteen, the teenager was entrusted to maestro Saoud, who also taught Lili Boniche, and whose café in Oran was a rare meeting place for musicians, writers, and local stars. Later, she took part in radio shows gathering the best artists of Algiers' chaabi and Andalous music, and joined the orchestra of Hadj El Anka, the creator of the casbah chaabi. She has left us several recordings, including this one, and a song featured on the musical score of Rachida, a splendid film by Yamina Bachi Chouikh.

This highly anticipated album from Belle and Sebastian arrives with every hope satisfied. Each song is a cunning short story that wraps itself around you like a cozy couch throw. The loose theme running through this 12-song reverie is seduction. It plays out in both the drowsy sexual hopes of principal songwriter Stuart Murdoch's idle protagonists and the giddiness of bandmate Stevie Jackson's Seymour Stein and Chickfactor, which document his bewitchment by the city of New York and its beautiful girls and florid pitchmen. The complex arrangements favor a whimsical diversity best experienced in Sleep the Clock Around, which features synthesizer bloops, trumpets, and bagpipes! If you haven't figured out that this Scottish eight-piece deserves every iota of hype it's receiving, it's time to... Less

This culture has left a deep mark on the soul of the Maghreb Jews. It still resounds in the hearts and uprooted souls of Israel s immigrants; it rings in their music, their songs, their folklore, and their rituals, with a feeling of homesickness. The culture to which Haïm Zafrani refers to is that which Jews and Muslims shared, nurtured, practiced, and sustained together for over ten centuries. Most Jewish-Arab singers were born in the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia), and many of them lived in France, in decors evoking the 1930s 60s: the years of all creative daring.

In 1999, conductor Daniel Barenboim and literary theorist Edward Said joined forces to create the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, an ensemble of young Israeli, Palestinian, and Arab musicians united in common cause, to show that there are no boundaries between people when they play music together. The symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven hold a special significance for them, because many of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra's concerts have featured them as symbols of international harmony, and their recordings have been brought together in this box set under the title Beethoven for All, a clear statement of their egalitarian aims. [Note: this set should not be confused with Barenboim's earlier disc, called Beethoven for All, which was a collection of excerpts from the symphonies, piano... Less

Tired of bad fabrics, faulty zippers, and cheap protective materials in your Darbuka case? Arab instruments is proud to present the new soft case for Darbuka/Doumbek drum. Every Darbuka player is searching for the best packing solution for his instrument, and many are offered on-line. However, none are equipped with all the necessary features to create a high quality product for the professional player looking for an exclusive soft case. We have created the ultimate soft case, to provide better protection for your precious instrument, using only the finest materials. The case will arrived also with a FREE darbuka key-chian. The key-chain will selected randomly from our stock. Our unique design includes: *Two high quality zippers (YKK): one for the Darbuka and another of the spare skin +... Less

After reinterpreting Arab classics on Diwân, Rachid Taha returns with a stunning collection of original compositions that owes as much to rock as to his Algerian rai roots, connecting the dots between Europe and the Maghreb. Here he again teams with producer Steve Hillage (Gong, System 7), whose guitar work and arrangements provide the muscular frameworks for Taha's songs and emotive voice. Rachid's new direction has all the power of rock, as on Foqt Foqt, which maintains an insistent riff while retaining the delicacy and polyrhythms characterizing North African music. Ala Jalkoum offers a duet with Afrobeat superstar Femi Kuti while Verité and Ho Cherie Cherie could have come from a Peter Gabriel album. Made in Medina is a massive, but still natural, step forward that establishes Taha as... Less

Despite its misleading title--London-base d percussionist Hossam Ramzy here borrows beats from almost every Middle Eastern style except Algerian pop music--Egyptian Rai is a fascinating blend of Arab melodies filtered through Egyptian film-music orchestration. Call it syncretic belly-dance music for intellectuals. The nine instrumentals here borrow from such disparate sources as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Morocco, offering, as the bandleader (whose collaborators have included Peter Gabriel, Loreena McKennitt, and Robert Plant and Jimmy Page) puts it, an eagle's-eye view of the Arab world. Ramzy and ensemble approach the source material as improvisers, blending quarter-tone accordion, ney flute, strings, horns, and, of course, a variety of drums into a jangly, pulsing party. The... Less

Tired of bad fabrics, faulty zippers, and cheap protective materials in your Darbuka case? Arab instruments is proud to present the new soft case for Darbuka/Doumbek drum. Every Darbuka player is searching for the best packing solution for his instrument, and many are offered on-line. However, none are equipped with all the necessary features to create a high quality product for the professional player looking for an exclusive soft case. We have created the ultimate soft case, to provide better protection for your precious instrument, using only the finest materials. The case will arrived also with a FREE darbuka key-chian. The key-chain will selected randomly from our stock. Our unique design includes: *Two high quality zippers (YKK): one for the Darbuka and another of the spare skin +... Less

Import LP pressing. The quirky Glaswegian outfit's highly acclaimed & highly anticipated 1998 album featuring 12 timeless pop songs that are neither pretentious nor too cute. A 1998 Jeepster/ Matador release.

Dorsaf Hamdani offers a fitting tribute to 3 Arab women singes: Oum Kalsoum, Fairouz and Asmahan

Breakthrough 1998 album from the Scottish popsters! Includes Dirty Dream Number Two and Chickfactor.

Release Date: 2002-09-02, Audio CD, EMI Import

Legend - the Best of Farid Al Atrache is an Essential Collection of the One of the Greatest Musical Legends in the Arab World, with Approximately 80 Minutes of Farid's Biggest Hits. A Must-have for Any Arab Music Fanatic; It Includes Such Hits as the Classic Hebeena Hebbina, Alachan Malich Gheirak, Ya Habaybi Ya Ghabeen , and Many More ! this Compilation Album is Digitally Re-mastered and Comes in a Deluxe Slip Case Packaging, Making it a True Collector's Item.

This lavish set documents a once-in-a lifetime concert dedicated to Jerusalem, with Jewish, Arab and Christian musicians boldly threading together musical traditions under the direction of Jordi Savall, the world's leading early music performer. Comprising two hybrid Super Audio CDs in a 400 page full-sized glossy hardback book.

Vinyl LP pressing pressing of this collection, the first and still most popular Cure compilation on the market. Staring At The Sea contains 13 absolute gems spanning their first eight years (1978-85) ranging from the dark, minimalist Killing An Arab to the aquatic 'Close To Me'. This set traces the Cure's evolution from Post-Punk trio through the early years of the band's reinvention as gloomy and mildly psychedelic romantics. Standing On A Beach (AKA Staring At The Sea) includes the catchy Boys Don't Cry and The Walk, the Cure's response to New Order's early attempts at electronic dance music. Also present here are the hauntingly beautiful Charlotte Sometimes, not available on any of the band's studio albums, and The Lovecats, one of the Cure's more unique and most commercially... Less

This set includes 5 beautiful miniature key-chains darbuka that made especially by Arab Instruments. The key chain is hand made from wood, and has been painted by a professional sculptor. It is a beautiful gift for every darbuka player and it is one of a kind. The darbuka key chain is a unique item and for the first time you can purchase it on Amazon Height of the darbuka: 1.76 inc (4.5 cm)

The tracks are: 1. he Nutcracker Overture, 2. March from The Nutcracker, 3. Chinese Dance, 4. Arab Dance, 5. Russian Dance, 6. Reed Flutes, 7. Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy, 8. Waltz Of The Flowers, 9. Do You Hear What I Hear?, 10. White Christmas, 11. Cloister Bells, 12. Holy City, 13. Silver Bells.

On this reissue from Chant du Monde, Weiss and his Al Kindi Ensemble, explore the full range of music from Syria and the Middle East. From the music of the Crusades to the Whirling Dervishes of Damascus, there is a dialogue with the past where East and West come together in spite of their multitude of differences.

Modern Arabic pop from Egypt

If conflicts are one day to be solved, says the Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim, it will only be by contact between the warring parties. The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is living proof that this is a viable goal and that music can provide the ideal environment for its attainment. In 1998, Barenboim and his friend, the late Palestinian writer and scholar Edward Said, founded a workshop for young Israeli and Arab musicians; its aim was to foster the participants' musical development and to bridge national, cultural and political differences through dialogue, communal living and shared music-making. Named after a collection of poems by Goethe, the German writer and statesman, the workshop was inaugurated at his birthplace, Weimar, in 1999, and now meets every summer in Andalusia for... Less

2008 five CD boxset containing a quintet of original Swedish-language albums from the Abba vocalist: Agnetha Faltskog (1968), Agnetha Faltskog Vol. 2 (1969), Som Jag Ar (1970), Nar En Vacker Tanke Blir En Sang (1971) and Elva Kvinnor I Ett Hus (1975). 59 tracks. Sony/BMG.

Wisely, the Cure decided to start fresh upon signing with their new label in 2004 by cleaning house, remastering the old albums, and bringing their fans Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities, 1978-2001. Not only is it the ultimate companion to the official releases, but it is, in a way, the new-super-deluxe-u pdated version of that cassette release of Staring at the Sea. Every B-side is included, in order, with cleaned-up sound, liner notes, and explanations by the man who made it all happen. All tracks, from 10.15 Saturday Night (the B-side to the debut single Killing an Arab) to covers of Hello, I Love You, Purple Haze, and World in My Eyes, to entries from the Bloodflowers singles, are an indication that while the Cure made both strong albums and singles, they were not afraid to experiment... Less

This engrossing recital showcases three Nazareth-born, oud-playing brothers of impeccable pedigree. The eldest, Samir, began his education under his father, a respected oud-maker. He graduated from a local music school before going on to study at the Muhammed Abdul Wahab Conservatory in Cairo, Egypt. The middle sibling, Wissam, is not only revered for fiery improvisations that are nonetheless firmly grounded in ancient modes but has followed in his father footsteps in a big way. He was the first-ever Arab lute builder to graduate from the Stradivarius Institute in Cremona, Italy. All three brothers perform on instruments hand-made by Wissam. The youngest, Adnan, only began playing professionally over the past couple of years and is already widely recognized as a prodigy. The trio made... Less

Features smash hit Nar El Ghera by the famous Warda

Release Date: 2007-12-28, Audio CD, Deja Vu Italy