Ali Jihad Racy is an established performer, ethnomusicologist, and specialist on music of the Near East. He has performed extensively in his country of birth, Lebanon, as well as in the U.S. and Canada. Racy is a virtuoso on the nay and buzuq, and also plays the violin, rababah, daff, and arghul.
Product Description
Composed and performed on traditional Near Eastern instruments by accomplished Arab artist Ali Jihad Racy, this CD is a musical tribute to the ancient treasures and religious symbolism of the Egyptian Book of The Dead.
Ancient Egypt,Ali Jihad Racy,Lyrichord Discs Inc.,Arabic,Egypt,Egyptian,Int'l & World Music,Lebanon,Middle East,Pop,Traditional Bluegrass,Traditional Middle Eastern Folk,World Music
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Meditation Music of Ancient Egypt
Gerald Jay Markoe Manufacturer: Astromusic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001DMXJC Release Date: 2004-03-02 |
Tracks:
- Entering The Eternal Now
- Pre Dawn Meditation
- Sacred Ceremony
- Ancient Sunrise
- Egyptian Shaman
- Initation
- Sacred Movements
- Egyptian Magic
- Immortality
Customer Reviews:
Great For Meditation.......2007-06-25
It seems to bring my feelings out and make me think about a lot of things.
It definitely sounds like ancient Egptian music to me. I guess they used the same sort of instruments that would have been used at that time.
Plato believed that Isis created some of the music from very ancient Egypt.
I guess the image on the cover is supposed to be Isis. She has very dark skin, almost black.
The great Edgar Cayce claimed that he had known and become romantically involved with Isis around 10,500 BC in Egypt. Their story is an interesting one which involved Ra Ta's enemies using the goddess' great beauty as a political weapon to ensnare the former Atlantean priest.
I bring this up here since Isis appeared at that time as a dancer in the mysterious temples such as the 'Temple Beautiful'. Apparently music and dance were used in very esoteric and mysterious ways to help the 'things' become normal again.
Jeff Marzano
Higher Ground
The Lives of Edgar Cayce
Edgar Cayce's Egypt: Psychic Revelations on the Most Fascinating Civilization Ever Known
Excellent in every way!.......2007-01-21
Exceptionally Good.......2005-11-11
TOTALY AWSOME MUSIC.......2005-07-31
Perfect for Khemetic/Pagan/Meditation devotees.......2004-04-03
I've been on the quest for good sacred space/meditation music for quite some time. I took a risk since, I really couldn't tell by the sound bytes if I'd like it. I brought it home, lit some incense, candles and got comfortable whilst I pressed 'play'. For me, it was like magic. "At first, the metallic-stringed harp reminded me of Japanese music, but as the album moves along, there's something not quite Asian, African or Middle Eastern -- but definitely mystical. I would think Markoe tapped into the "Eternal Now" so aptly put on the first track of the CD. My small, cramped bedroom was turned into a temple and I, its priestess. Well done! The great thing is that each track can apply to a specific ritual or practice and their names reflect that. The first song, I used for meditation (simply programmed to repeat over and over). The next one is great for morning or "pre-dawn devotion" as described and so on. Quite versatile and yet it doesn't command one's attention, so you can easily meditate, sleep, do yoga or journal to it without being mesmerized by the melodies.
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Music of the Ancient Sumerians, Egyptians and Greeks
Ensemble De Organographia , Philip Neuman , and Gayle Stuwe Neuman Manufacturer: Pandourians ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000044U1S Release Date: 2000-05-23 |
Customer Reviews:
Someone finally did it right!.......2007-08-04
excellent recreation of ancient music.......2006-04-25
Simply the Best Re-Creation of Antique Music.......2006-01-25
Disc consists of 3 sets of Antique World music. Ancient Greek Music newly founded at Oxyrhinchus in Egypt (world premiere recording); music from ancient city Ugarit (XIII century B.C.) - Sumero-Babylonian music (including oldest notated music in the history of humankind); music of the Egyptians reconstructed after descriptions by Plutarch and Apuleius.
Ensemble De Organographia re-creates this music with such love and unerstanding of the ancient cultures, that you nearly feel the breezes of the Mediterranean sea and see the landscapes of its shores. They perform it as a music of still living folk tradition.
Of course you wouldn`t find here ancient analog of the 5th Beethoven`s symphony:)
The value of this music is that you could understand internal world and spirituality of the ancient people. It`s a miracle...
I had heard different "restorations" of the Music of the Ancient World - and this work by Ensemble De Organographia is simply the best!!! A must for the lover of the Antique culture.
And it`s hard for me to understand why works by Synaulia and Atrium Musicae De Madrid are so popular.
You could find CDs by Ensemble De Organographia on website by North Pacific Music. There you would find sound samples.
My real rate of this CD - 10 stars!!!!
You could also try CD "Music in the Age of the Pyramids" by Rafael Perez Arroyo (released in Europe by NAR). He uses coptic music as a model for reconsruction of the music of the Ancient Egypt.
Summer.......2001-02-12
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Ancient Egypt
Ali Jihad Racy Manufacturer: Lyrichord Discs Inc. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000229Q Release Date: 1993-01-18 |
Tracks:
- The Lamentations of Isis
- The Land of the Blessed
- Hymn to Osiris
- The Boat of Millions of Years
- The Holy Lotus
- Funeral Procession
- Hymn for the Sunrise
- The Triumph of the Deceased
Album Description
Composed and performed on traditional Near Eastern instruments by accomplished Arab artist Ali Jihad Racy, this CD is a musical tribute to the ancient treasures and religious symbolism of the Egyptian Book of The Dead.Customer Reviews:
Ancient Egypt: Sherri's Opinion.......2007-04-11
good mood music.......2006-11-12
First time listener.......2006-06-30
Beautiful!.......2003-09-08
An interpretation of Ancient Egypt.......2003-06-27
IF there seams to be a resemblance to middle eastern music that may be because Ali Jihad Racy also has also recorded such on other Lyricord albums.
This is very enjoyable and worth the price.
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Ambient Egypt, Sounds from Ancient Sources
Douglas Irvine Manufacturer: William Sound ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000059MZK Release Date: 1998-10-28 |
Tracks:
- Nenchefka's Orchestra
- Road to Wadi el Hol
- Ambient Winds
- Procession at Thebes
- The Banquet
- Lotus on the Nile
- Bes
- Sunboat Drifting
Album Description
Inspired by the ancient Egyptian musical world, Ambient Egypt explores the rich, timeworn sounds of surviving and reconstructed musical instruments. Over 70 minutes of music weave traditional and contemporary elements, evoking the sense of mystery that surrounds ancient Egyptian civilization.This 2005 re-release features all original 1998 compositions remastered plus the bonus track to an Irvine's up-comming CD.
Total running time: 72.02
Customer Reviews:
Soothing Sounds.......2007-01-10
Ancient music for a modern audience.......2006-02-28
But yes, indeed - beautiful, serene, and indeed ethereal music!
Bringing to life Ancient Egyptian music.......2003-02-13
Ambient Egypt brings ancient Egyptian music to life.
I would rate this CD as highly as these other ancient Egyptian music reconstructions, Michael Atherton`s Ankh and Ali Jihad Racy`s Ancient Egypt. In my opinion the strengths of this CD are the use of authentic reconstructed instruments which have as Irvine states: "the potential to create new music".
Unbelievable tranquility.......2002-12-09
He loved it!.......2002-08-12
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Ankh: The Sound of Ancient Egypt
Michael Atherton Manufacturer: Celestial Harmonies ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000AEP0 Release Date: 1998-08-18 |
Tracks:
- Atum (Creator Sun God) Song
- Atum (Creator Sun God) Instrumental
- Atum (Creator Sun God) Instrumental
- Atum (Creator Sun God) Instrumental
- Atum (Creator Sun God) Instrumental
- Maat (Truth, Balance, Order) Song
- Maat (Truth, Balance, Order) Instrumental
- Maat (Truth, Balance, Order) Instrumental
- Maat (Truth, Balance, Order) Instrumental
- Maat (Truth, Balance, Order) Instrumental
- Khet (The Physical Body) Song
- Khet (The Physical Body) Instrumental
- Khet (The Physical Body) Instrumental
- Khet (The Physical Body) Instrumental
- Shen (Eternity) Song
- Shen (Eternity) Instrumental
- Shen (Eternity) Song
- Shen (Eternity) Instrumental
Amazon.com
This album is based on a challenging idea: Try to recreate a musical form from a culture and period that left behind no recordings or musical notation, using only history, a description of the instruments, and some historical artifacts. It takes intuition as much as scholarship and craftsmanship to recreate the ancient instruments of Egypt--from simple percussion and flutes to boat-shaped and triangular harps and trumpets. Atherton, with his musicians and singers, exhibits both innovation and skill, offering not so much a look at how the music actually was, but more an intuitive guess at how it might have been, keeping the music first and history a close but well-heeled second. It can be frantic one moment and somber the next, as each of these lengthy song suites develops organically around a song or a piece of poetry--offering both early music and improvisational music aficionados something unique. Excellent recording quality is augmented by well-documented notes on history and instrumental research. --Louis GibsonAlbum Description
The catalyst for Ankh: The Sound of Ancient Egypt was an exhibition - Life and Death in the Land of the Pharaohs, developed by the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands. The exhibition came to the Australian Museum in 1998. It provided the challenge of producing a creative reconstruction of ancient Egyptian music and the inspiration for a longer term research project.The first stage of the project began with a response to the contents of the exhibition itself, followed by a delving into the ever-increasing output of Egyptological scholarship, to establish a broader musical context. The big questions loomed large: what did the music sound like? How were the instruments tuned? Was the music polyphonic? One must proceed by conjecture and deduction, using the literary and visual record in conjunction with an examination of surviving instruments. The answers remain elusive, mainly gleaned from instruments housed in museums, along with iconographic and literary evidence. There is no surviving music notation, nor any musical theory which might instruct one about pitch, rhythm and timbre.
In approaching the composition and performance of the music, Michael Atherton drew on his experience in playing medieval monophony, eastern European and Turkish folk music, as well as his participation in intercultural music projects.
Atherton primarily uses 5, 6, and 7 note scales based on specific pitches, resulting in a combination of Moroccan ramal mai mode and Persian afshari. He also gravitates toward pentatonic scales and major modes. The melodies move in small steps. The setting of the hymns is monophonic, with the inclusion of call and response development. Sung items include interpolated recitations, as a means of acknowledging a deep connection between language and music.
Ankh: The Sound of Ancient Egypt is a contribution to giving a voice to the vivid images of a dynamic musical culture.
Customer Reviews:
Effective In Part -- Not Quite Enough Parts.......2001-07-16
the sound of ancient egypt.......2001-04-13
Could Have Been Done Better.......2000-06-10
Not much melody........2000-06-07
Definately a very different CD, notable perhaps for its novelty, but not much more.
Overall Very Excellent!.......2000-02-14
The only shortcomming was the female vocals. The singers, though good, sounded far too much like the Nuns of St. Hildegard of Bingen rather than more middle eastern sounding vocals. Had Atherton used vocalists similar to Azam Ali of Vas, or even from India or Egypt then this CD would have been absolutely perfect.
Very well done otherwise.
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Jerusalem
Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000E4OP Release Date: 1991-11-08 |
Tracks:
- I Was Glad
- Judith: Long Since In Egypt'sa Plenteous Land
- Blest Pair Of Sirens
- Blessed City, Heavenly Salem
- Great Is The Lord, Op.67
- O Hearken Thou
- Give Unto The Lord, Op.74
- Te Deum Luadamus in B flat
- Magnificant in B flat, Op.10
- Nunc Dimittis in B flat, Op.10
- My Beloved Spake
- Jerusalem
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Kemetic Diet Health System of Ancient Egypt Course - Class 3
Muata Ashby Manufacturer: Sema Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000LXH5UY |
Tracks:
- Kemetic Diet Health System Of Ancient Egypt-Class 3
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Kemetic Diet Health System of Ancient Egypt Course - Class 1
Muata Ashby Manufacturer: sema music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000LXH5UO |
Tracks:
- Kemetic Diet Health System Of Ancient Egypt-Class 1
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Night Thoughts and Fancies: New Music for Flute and Piano
Manufacturer: Capstone ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000JWRC Release Date: 1999-08-24 |
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Kemetic Diet Health System of Ancient Egypt Course - Class 4
Muata Ashby Manufacturer: Sema Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000LXH5V8 |
Tracks:
- Kemetic Diet Health System Of Ancient Egypt-Class 4
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