Putumayo Delves into the Fresh, Upbeat Sounds of the Arabic Scene from Damascus to Casablanca and Beyond on Arabic Beat. Across the Middle East and North Africa, the beat goes on. Inspired by music from across the globe but true to Arabic music s deep roots, the sounds of raï’s rolling funk and the shimmering pulse of raqs …
A Collection Of Holiday Music! Music To Your Ears! 1997 Sony Music Compilation! TRACKS: 1. The Nutcracker: Overture (Tchaikovsky) — Philharmonia Orchestra; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; 2. The Nutcracker: Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy (Tchaikovsky) — Philharmonia Orchestra; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; 3. The Nutcracker: Arabian Dance (Tchaikovsky) — Philharmonia Orchestra; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; 4. The …
In a career which spans over a decade and includes eight collaborative and solo albums, Azam Ali has confirmed her place as one of the most prolific, versatile, and gifted singers in the world music scene today. Looking at her entire body of work, it is hard to deny Azam her rightful place among the best singers and …
12-century Persian poet Jallalidin Mohammede Balkhi Molavi, a.k.a. Rumi, is probably more famous now than he was during his lifetime due to the proliferation of new music being made in his honor by contemporary poets and musicians. While much Western ambient and pseudospiritual music is made in his name these days, there is still a continuing tradition of …
Using themes by 19th-century Russian composer Alexander Borodin to musicalize a play set in ancient Baghdad seems the kind of harebrained idea only a crazed producer would have. And we should thank him for it. For Kismet is Broadway at its most demented–just the way we like it. Robert Wright and George Forrest reworked Borodin’s music so that …
Debut solo album by Yasmine Hamdan, written and produced in collaboration with Marc Collin (Nouvelle Vague). Yasmine is considered as an underground icon throughout the Arab world ever since Soap kills, the emblematic duo she founded in Beyrouth, which must have been the first Indie/Electronic band to appear in the Middle East, and whose music had become the …
If Klezmer music resembles American Dixieland, German cabaret and Balkan dance bands, it’s because Yiddish musicians of the 1910s and 1920s weren’t afraid to borrow from the gentile music around them. Most of the modern klezmer revivalist bands prefer to preserve the hybrid form of the music as it crystallized before the Holocaust, but the Klezmatics think a …
Maccabeats Voices From the Heights-the Original CD From the All-male Jewish a Cappella Group Which Has Become a Sensation on Youtube, Scoring Over 5 Million Hits for Their Hannukah Rendition of Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite.”Noe Coming With Their Second …
Finally…13 Jewish jingles for the holiday season! The Award winning Mama Doni brings her unique and special brand of “funky music with a Jewish twist” to the holiday season with the popular album, Chanukah Fever! The album, resplendent with Mama Doni’s signature wildly fun style, features a contagious and unexpected blend of reggae, rock, disco, Latin, klezmer and …
