A random kurdish tape vol #1: an hour set of music by artists from Kurdistan across bakur, bashur, and rojhalat (Rojava is next). This set serves as a general introduction to Kurdish music. This set focuses on upbeat dance music with slower songs to let the listener breathe. The slower songs range from rock to pop to more alternative sounds. Kurdish dance as a genre is very lively and intense, and if I had to describe it, it feels like free therapy. A trait of Kurdish dance songs is how singers often start their songs or verses. They let out a long note, and it sounds like a scream. They do this to signal the start of their verse, but it feels like utter catharsis. It feels like they are telling me to leave all my problems behind, to take a moment to vent and dance. 

Tracklist: https://radioflouka.com/shows/a-random-kurdish-tape-vol-1-with-darwon-07-06-2023

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A random Kurdish Tape vol.#1 with Darwon - 07/06/2023

SebastiAn, CAPSULE, The Postal Service & Nobukazu Takemura

Way Out (Give Up)

MakeNoise Tempi patch experiment

In the arabic composer world the Lebanese Rahbani family has a prominent name. This is Gassan Rahbani, a lesser known one. Understandably, he wanted to be different than the other Rahbani's. Check out his psychedelic tune and chillax!

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Stranger

Gassan Rahbani - Stranger (1981)

I spent one day getting taxis in Beirut. I wanted to discover the tastes in music from these people who drive all day long through back roads, littles lanes and huge urban railways.
I asked the drivers to put on the stereo theirs favorites audio tapes, radio music stations or compact disks. I recorded all directly with my cellphone. That’s why the quality of the sound is really rough, but I wanted to do it very conceptual and diy. 
Indeed the mix is full of sounds; like drivers who smoke and coughing, the brakes creaking and the speech between me and some drivers.
In the same day, I stood longtime in different spots around the city recording the traffic jam and the urban noises. It will also appear in the mix during transitions. The mix contains traditional folk music, lebanese arab-pop and internationals.
This is Lebanon Carrefour : Music for Taxi Drivers

http://projectrevolver.org/features/articles/turbo-falafel-records-the-sounds-of-taxi-drivers-in-beirut/

Lebanon Carrefour - Music For Taxi Drivers

Asif - Tafsut (Vinyl SP, '80 ?)

Whities 023 (The Act of Falling from the 8th Floor) - Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy
Release Date - 6th September 2019
Buy - https://whities.bandcamp.com/album/whities-023-the-act-of-falling-from-the-8th-floor

A1 - Zawaj  زواج
A2 - A'laj  علاج
A3 - Zyaj  زياج
B1 - Haj  حاج
B2 - B'aj  بعاج
B3 - Hela  هيلا

Design by Alex McCullough and Noah Baker
Title typography by Noah Baker
Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker

023 (The Act of Falling from the 8th Floor) - Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy

CST093
Mo7it Al-Mo7it
Jerusalem In My Heart

Debut album from Montreal-based experimental music + film projection project. Release date: 14 March 2013

Album info: http://cstrecords.com/cst093
Band info: http://jerusaleminmyheart.com/

Mo7it Al-Mo7it

Jerusalem In My Heart • "Yudaghdegh el-ra3ey wala al-ghanam"

Get your vinyl: https://bigwax.io/collections/shouka/products/irun
Download the album: https://nuri.bandcamp.com/album/irun
℗ Shouka 2020
© Shouka | Alter-K 2020

IRUN

A5dher 2

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ANADOL "Bayan Olmanın Sevinci"

Akuphone. AKUMS1003 (12''/DL)
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🕐 Bandcamp Exclusive: June 12
🕙 Vinyl/Digital: September 11

Où cela commence-t-il ?
Where does cultural appropriation end and procreational fusion begin?
The answer to that depends on the perceiver.

For some, applying the structures of electronic music to folkloristic samples may seem de-contextualizing. Yet when considering the similarity between dancefloor compositions and the minimalism of Steve Reich and Terry Riley, the gap to traditional music begins to fade away. They remain distinct mostly by aesthetic characteristics of sound.

Nicolas Sheikholeslami’s premiere solo record as Çaykh is named after the French conjunction "Où" - meaning “where” - as this was the linking element during production. We witness an attempt to re-contextualize music that travelled from analog tapes - recorded in different localities along the Indian Ocean - to a hard-drive via 192kb youtube rips. The sample-based compositions were digitally arranged before regaining their warm sonic qualities in a vintage mixing studio.

This EP assembles three metamorphic 4th-world disco pulsations. Expect some heavily trancy and polyrhythmic analogue-fi jams.

Nicolas Sheikholeslami aka Çaykh is a Hamburg-born and Berlin-based DJ and producer. He is active as drummer & percussionist for the projects Spiritczualic Enhancement Center and Circuit Diagram.

Çaykh’s three earlier sound-collage cassette releases have already earned him a certain fame in the 4th-world and outsider-disco realms. His collection of pre-war Somali music called “Au revoir, Mogadishu“ paved the way for the Grammy-nominated “Sweet as Broken Dates“ compilation, which he co-curated.

Mixed at Studio Strom, Bremen, Germany
Mastering by Mark Gergis (1.1) and Michael Graves (2.1 & 2.2)
Artwork by Thomas Baldischwyler

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AKUMS1003 // ÇAYKH - Où (Preview)

Constellation Records established 1997 in Montréal Canada releasing 8-10 albums per year in Deluxe 180gLP editions, digitally, and usually on CD too.

Jerusalem In My Heart • "Yudaghdegh el-ra3ey wala al-ghanam"

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