Songs from the Middle East

1. Trance (Turkey)

2. Adon Haslichot (Israel)

3. Arabian Wedding Song [Saudi Arabia]

4. Colors of the Middle East [Mediterranean]

5. Turkish Hay (Turkey)

6. Great Allah [Middle East]

7. Love Song from Uzbekistan

8. Egyptian Roots

Songs from the Middle East,Various Artists,Ent. Media Partners,Int'l & World Music,Middle East,Middle East / Asia Minor,Pop

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Most Popular Songs From Israel: Hava Nagila Effi Netzer & Beit Rothschild Manufacturer: Arc Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Middle East | International | Styles | Music Israel | Middle East | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs Under $7 | International General | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | International General | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | International General | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs Under $7 | Middle East | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Middle East | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Middle East | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music 4-for-3 International | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Authentic Israeli Folk Songs and Dances 20 Popular Folksongs from Israel Shalom: Music Of The Jewish People Shalom: Most Beautiful Popular Songs from Israe Classic Jewish Holiday & Shabbat Songs ASIN: B00000IGV4 Release Date: 1999-05-11

Tracks:

1. Hava Nagila
2. Eretz Zabat Halav
3. Ez Vakevess
4. Debka Haabir
5. Nigun Atik
6. Horrah Nirkoda
7. Finjan
8. Miam Miam
9. Hevenu Shalom Aleichem
10. Tapuach Chenani
11. hava netze Bemachol
12. Krakoviyak
13. Horrah Ne'urim
14. Korovushka
15. Bat Hacarmel
16. Debka Hilel

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Life of the Worlds: Journeys in Jewish Sacred Music Manufacturer: Five Souls Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Middle East | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Tuning The Soul: Worlds of Jewish Sacred Music Kabbalah Music: Songs of the Jewish Mystics Sing My Heart Abayudaya - Music from the Jewish People of Uganda Sacred Chants of the Contemporary Synagogue ASIN: B000172L72 Release Date: 2003-12-03

Tracks:

1. Ha'aderet Veha'emunah/LeKhay Olamim - Yemen
2. Le'El Adir Neranenah - Afghanistan
3. Bati Legani - Eastern Europe
4. Kinah Lekhurban Gan Eden - Eastern Europe
5. Sephardi Yerushalmi Khatsi Kaddish - Jerusalem/Spain
6. Navah Tehilah - Afghanistan
7. Hayoshevet Baganim - Yemen
8. Eyn Keloheynu - Morocco
9. Modeh Ani/Elohay Neshamah - Salonica
10. Eli Shema Koli - Morocco
11. Reb Nachman's Niggun - Ukraine
12. Hishtapkhut Hanefesh - Belarus
13. Niggun of the Alter Rebbe - Belarus
14. Ve'erastikh Li - Salonica
15. El Mistater - Poland
16. Ashrey - Eastern Europe/Spain
17. Yemeni Shema - Yemen
18. Grandfather Sang a Song - Eastern Europe

Amazon.com

The modern-day traditional Jewish music revival is filled with artists exploring klezmer's Eastern-European roots, but you'll hear no clarinet and little violin on cantor/educator Richard Kaplan's Life Of The Worlds. Although these are traditional songs, there is a broad range of the Diaspora represented on his second album, including Afghani, Spanish, Moroccan, and Algerian traditions. Kaplan dives into the sacred and the secular, the prophetic and the exultant, finding commonalities amongst different tribes and fusing them together. Musical accompaniment comes in the form of an occasional flute, piano, and violin as well as Moroccan clay drums, oud, dumbek, and other pre-modern-era instruments, but the instrument at the center of each song is Kaplan's voice--his high baritone majestically soars, quavers with sensitivity, and rings out with joy. To hear him sing solo versions of traditional Niggiun is to hear a world-class master savor the multifaceted nuance of each note and transcend the concept of song, turning it into religion and high art. --Tad Hendrickson

Album Description

A remarkable collection of vocal performances of Jewish sacred music from the Middle East, Andalusia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia - songs of exultation, longing, love, and Divine immanence - accompanied by an ensemble of masterful musicians.

Instruments include: oud, ney, kanun, Egyptian accordian, violin, mandolin, dumbek, doira, riqq, Yemenite can, tar, saz, clarinet, mey (Turkish duduk), tilinca (Rumanian shepherd's flute), piano, string bass, balaban (Klezmer drum set), cimbalom, and a chorus of voices.

Among many special songs, the CD features an 'eco-lament' (ecological lament) based on lament melodies for the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. It is called "Lament on the Destruction of the Garden of Eden" (Kinah Lekhurban Gan Eden), and updates the use of these tunes to mourn the wounding of our larger temple, Gaia - Mother Earth.

LIFE OF THE WORLDS contains 18 songs, 77 minutes of music, and contains a 32-page booklet which includes informative song descriptions; all texts are provided in transliteration, English translation, and in Hebrew or Yiddish.

This CD was three years in the making, and presents the first recordings in North America of several songs from the treasure-chest of Jewish sacred music.

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Les Chantres Yemenites: Sacred Songs from Sanaa Various Artists Manufacturer: Institut Du Monde ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Middle East | International | Styles | Music Arabic | Middle East | International | Styles | Music Yemen | Middle East | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005BFD0 Release Date: 2001-05-08

Tracks:

1. Adhan
2. Bismillah
3. Ya Rabb Salli'ala N-Nabi
4. 'Alim Al-Sirr Minna
5. Al-Tahmida
6. Al-Sala Tugsha Muhammad
7. Li Fi Ruba Hajir Ghuzayyil
8. Salli Ilahu Al-Sama
9. Ya Rabb Salli'ala Man Halla Bi-Harami
10. Al-Sana Iah
11. 'Ala N-Nabi Wa-L-Al
12. Ya Rabb Ya Musbil
13. Al-Ziffa
14. Al-Bala/Ya Muslimin/El-Hamdu

Average customer rating: Oriental

Songs from the Middle East Various Artists Manufacturer: Ent. Media Partners ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Middle East | International | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | International General | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | International General | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs Under $7 | Middle East | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Middle East | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 International | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Eleven Centuries of Traditional Music of China ASIN: B00004SGOG Release Date: 2000-06-06

Tracks:

1. Trance (Turkey)
2. Adon Haslichot (Israel)
3. Arabian Wedding Song [Saudi Arabia]
4. Colors of the Middle East [Mediterranean]
5. Turkish Hay (Turkey)
6. Great Allah [Middle East]
7. Love Song from Uzbekistan
8. Egyptian Roots

Customer Reviews:

Oriental.......2001-01-09

As a summary this is a typical example of Middle Eastern music, the ones who want to get the smell of Oriental music they have to get this... Follow RA

Average customer rating: A Rare Classic Sabri Moudallal : pure joy, profane & sacred Pure tarab and ya salaam

Songs from Aleppo Sabri Moudallal Manufacturer: Inst. Du Monde Afr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Middle East | International | Styles | Music Syria | Middle East | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Aleppian Sufi Trance Whirling Dirvishes of Damascus Arabo-Andalusian Sufi Songs ASIN: B00004R7PY Release Date: 2000-04-25

Tracks:

1. Ya Uyuna Ramiyat/Ceeillades
2. Unq Al-Malih/La Nuque Du Bel Amant
3. Improvisation Sur Qanun
4. Improvisation Vocale Layali
5. Ya Sakinin Bi-Qalbi/Vous Qui Habitez Mon Coeur
6. Al-hubb Ma Huwa B--L-Sahl/L'amour N'est Pas Chose Aisee
7. Interlude Instrumental
8. Improvisation Sur Luth
9. Ta'adhabtu/J'ai Souffert
10. Qudud/Chants En Dialecte Aleppin
11. Salawat/Prieres
12. Ahmad Ya Habibi/Ahmad, Mon Bien-Aime
13. Ya Hadi/Toi Qui Conduis
14. Tala'a Al-Badru 'Alayna/Tel La Pleine Lune, Il Apparut
15. Bonus Track
16. Bonus Track

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A Rare Classic.......2002-09-19

A very interesting combination of classical Arabic music and religous Muslim chants that illustrate the connections and mutual influence. The voice of Sabri Moudallal, the chief Muazen of Aleppo is warm and wonderful and his mastery of maqamat and classical arabic music is out of this world. (Muazen: a person responsible for chanting the public call for prayer in a mousque).

The vocal improvisations are what Tarab is all about. Listening to this CD is addictive so it should come with a warning :-)

Sabri Moudallal : pure joy, profane & sacred.......2000-09-01

Sabri Moudallal is undoubtedly one of the greatest renown Arab classical singers of the second half of the XXth century. Born in 1918 in Aleppo, he was still recording two years ago, at the venerable age of 80 ! I had the immense pleasure of attending a live performance of his in Cairo in 1997 and he sang with the power and conviction of eternal youth !

This new release of Sabri Moudallal's Aleppian ensemble, recorded live in Paris in 1994, offers the best of his art, both profane and sacred. Two long tracks feature beautiful suites of cheerful profane songs : three dawr-s on track 6 and three Aleppian qudud on track 10. These are reminiscent of some of the material of the 1998 Aleppian Music Room album. But here the live recording and the kamandja violin add something lacking on the Music Room album. Real fans of classical Arab music will also be glad to have the opportunity to compare two very different versions of the "same" song (Ya sakinina bi-qalbi), featured on both albums. Worth noticing among the 3 dawr-s featured here is the title "Ya mama shufi awam", which is simply delightful.

As for the sacred singing and music found on the last four tracks of the album, it compares to an earlier release by Ocora (Muezzins d'Alep): it is both as intense and moving. The song "Ahmad ya habibi", composed by Moudallal, is simply a dazzling explosion of joyful love and devotion.

Once again, the Institut du Monde Arabe has done a splendid job for which I am truly grateful. I strongly recommend this CD to all lovers of the great classical Arab musical tradition. Many music lovers less familiar with the Oriental tradition will also find delight in this CD. Those who know no other Arab music than the kind of Belly-dance music popular in the West will probably experience quite a cultural shock, comparable to the discovery of one of Beethoven's string-quartet by a kid raised on radio-friendly North American pop music...

Pure tarab and ya salaam.......2000-08-31

Relax and listen to the traditional tarab and enjoy the sophisticated music of old days....The style is pure...uncontaminated and truly simple... It is pleasing to the mind and senses....This CD is the best i've ever heard while experiencing and enjoying the originality of Middle Eastern tarab....Much obliged to the artist for the enchantment and the ecstasy.

Average customer rating: Classical Turkish folk songs beautifully rendered there's only one dynamite track, but...

Songs & Dances from Turkey Huseyin & Gunay Turkmenler Manufacturer: Arc Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Middle East | International | Styles | Music Turkey | Middle East | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000617P Release Date: 1994-06-20

Tracks:

1. Hudayda
2. Burasi Mustur
3. Acti Mola Su Sivasin Gulu Yapragi
4. Olem Ben Olem Ben
5. Taksim/Cicekdagi
6. Taksim
7. Taksim/Alim Gitme Pazara
8. Gelmisem, Gormusem, Isterem Seni
9. Siyah Percemini
10. Taksim/Bolu Gelin Karsilamasi
11. Gelin Oy Oy
12. Macka Yollari

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Classical Turkish folk songs beautifully rendered.......2005-09-05

If you are unable to find this title it has been re-released as "Traditions of Turkey" by Arc Music (EUCD 1776).

Accompanied mainly by saz (long neck lute), the performances are beautiful and calming. Additional instruments that can be heard on some selections include the darbouka, def (single headed drums), and finger cymbols.

The liner notes include the lyrics and translations for the seven songs of love and lament. The first and last selections are lively and the only likely dances. The rest of the performances are arabesque and improvisational. If you love traditional Turkish chamber music this is for you. Aside from this CD, music of this sort is most likely found on a Turkish import recording.

there's only one dynamite track, but..........2001-08-09

...DAMN it's a good one. The first selection, "Hudayda", if listened to at maximum volume, can make you literally want to ride around decapitating people. Whenever you're feeling bored or tired, just blast it over headphones, imagine yourself a nomad warrior or janissary, and feel your self-confidence explode through the top of your skull. I'm giving all 4 stars directly to that track, as all the others are rather uninteresting unless you have a special interest in the repertory.

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Most Popular Songs From Israel: Hava Nagila Effi Netzer & Beit Rothschild Manufacturer: Arc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Middle East | International | Styles | Music Israel | Middle East | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000284H7 Release Date: 1999-04-20

Tracks:

1. Hava Nagila
2. Eretz Zavat Halav
3. Ez Vakevess
4. Debka Haabir
5. Nigun Atik
6. Horrah Nirkoda
7. Finjan
8. Maim Maim
9. Hevenu Shalom Aleichem
10. Tapuach Chenani
11. Hava Netze Bemachol
12. Krakoviyak
13. Horrah Ne'urim
14. Korovushka
15. Bat Hacarmel
16. Debka Hilel

Average customer rating: Great collection of Middle Eastern dance music Traditional music for traditional dance

Songs & Dances From Morocco Chalf Hassan Manufacturer: Arc Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Morocco | Africa | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Middle East | International | Styles | Music Turkey | Middle East | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000001IE8 Release Date: 1994-06-21

Tracks:

1. Amul Koutchi
2. El-Alim Yal-Alim
3. Alabas Alabas
4. Lalla Fatima
5. Dada Hiyani Dada
6. Lahssab, Talata We-Talatin
7. Tzawaj Magalhalia

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Great collection of Middle Eastern dance music.......2004-09-14

If you are interested in Middle Eastern dance, this is a great CD. For one thing, the cuts range from about 6 minutes long to almost 11 minutes long, plenty of music for continuous dancing. The music features a lot of violin and is softer-sounding than a lot of Middle Eastern music you might be familiar with. The mysterious The Bride "Look at me!" is very much like what you might hear in a Moroccan restaurant, intricate rhythm, violin and is the dance wedding guests all do to fete the newly-married couple.

Traditional music for traditional dance.......2000-12-30

Both instruments and musical style are perfect for re-creation of traditional-style Moroccan dances. No piece is shorter than four minutes, and the longest is ten minutes (ideal for "village" scenes). I'm fond of "Amul Koutchi" (Dear rag and bone man, please lets take everything and leave here), and the greeting dance also has a nice lilt to it. This is not the usual orchestra-with-big-drum-solo stereotype; those who explore dance ought to try this one.

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Songs and Music from Badakhchan Various Artists Manufacturer: Naive ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Middle East | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002YLDSW Release Date: 2004-09-21

Tracks:

1. Navoy-Ghijak (Ghijak Melody) [Instrumental]
2. Gueryoram (I Feel Like Crying)
3. Madd(Poems by Hafez & NemllPamiri)
4. DaryThe River)
5. Doy-Yazm (Celebration Circle) [Instrumental]
6. Navoy-Tanbur (Tanbur Melody) [Instrumental]
7. Chab-Mahtob (Moonlight Night)
8. Raqs-Pamiri (Pamir Dance) [Instrumental]
9. Navoy-Set(Setor Melody) [Instrumental]
10. Sitoye (Admiration)
11. Darguilik

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Hebrew Songs from Israel and the Orient Ora Sittner &Youval Micenmacher Manufacturer: Al Sur ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Middle East | International | Styles | Music Israel | Middle East | International | Styles | Music General | Far East & Asia | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000001UD0 Release Date: 1995-04-25

Tracks:

1. Qyria Yfyia - Peter & the Test Tube Babies, Ora Sittner
2. Ode Le-Eli - Youval Micenmacher, Tito Rodriguez
3. Beer Bassad G.B.H., Sex Gang Children
4. Lamidbar
5. Im Hachahar
6. Guinat Egoz
7. Hinahallela - Youval Micenmacher, Tribe 8
8. Debqahamor
9. Entre-Chant 1 - Pigeonhed, Toots & the Maytals
10. Chir Hachomer - Youval Micenmacher, R.E.M.
11. Debqafiah - Youval Micenmacher, Mothers of Invention
12. Sei Yona - Dial M for Moguai, Youval Micenmacher
13. Entre-Chant 3
14. At Adama
15. Entre-Chant 3
16. Mahmad Lvi - The Sisters of Mercy, Ora Sittner
17. Entre-Chant 4
18. Dror Iqra
19. Orkha Bamidbar
20. Debqabaya

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