Electronic Genes - Yousef Kawar.. click to hear it
Untitled Tracks
On Alternative Music in Beirut is a collection of texts and photos which begins to chart the manifold, mutating and increasingly visible alternative musical landscapes in Beirut. Click to read more.
SunDance - Omar Kamel
The two albums Sundance and Moonrise were designed to work as catchy danceable world-music with Oriental, Latin, and Asian influences...
Psalms - Khaled Jubran
Is oriental music a “Tarab” dedicated servant by definition? Is it really doomed to express only “ecstatic joy” or “devastating sorrow”?
 
 
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Album Description:
When light rays are made up of paradox and reflected light rays are made up of missiles, Mir'ah is the mirror.
This 2008 release contains 7 songs that were composed in Palestine during the period in which demonstrations erupted, during the invasion and bombardment of Palestinian cities, during curfews, and during the construction of the apartheid wall. Love, hate, comfort, boredom, excitement; the album expresses every-day human emotions blended with the unusual experience of living in Palestine during that period of time.
Mir'ah is composed and performed by Tamer Abu Ghazaleh in cooperation with a number of Palestinian and Egyptian performers. Artistic production by Al-Urmawi Center for Mashreq Music.
Wow...something in this music reminds me of the majesty of flamenco, but with much more complexity and even the kinetic energy of be-bop but with more dynamic range ~ ah, he even includes a figure from the "Theme from the Pink Panther" in a playful gesture! I wonder what he is saying...