Roots Sikah is an electronic album influenced by various genres including Dub, Folktronica, Shamstep, Reggae and Arabic folk music. The music on this album uses a diverse number of scales and rhythms found in the Middle East and also makes use of quartertones (gadwal) that gives Arabic music its distinct flavour.

The term Sikah comes from the combination of two words of Persian origin: Si, which means “three,” and the suffix Kah, from the Persian gah meaning “a position.” Sikah therefore, means the third position on the scale Rast (the primary scale of Arabic music). Sikah is also the primary quartertone used in Arabic music, featured on every track of this album.

released March 4, 2021 on all Digital platforms and Limited Edition CD.

Roots Sikah Produced, Mixed and Master by Dub Caravan

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Roots Sikah - جذور سيكاه (Full Album)

Roots Sikah - جذور سيكاه

Call of the Bedouins - نداء البدو

Gates of Jerusalem - بوابات القدس

Worn Keffiyeh - الكوفية البالية

Moroccan Sunset - الغروب في المغرب

Essence of the Cosmos - جوهر الكون

Rise from the Ashes -  انهض من الرماد

https://sunsofarqa.bandcamp.com/album/stranger-music

'Album Review: Suns of Arqa – Stranger Music (ARKA Sound Records)
 by Dave Mac: BPM magazine
<World Beat> Some facts you should know. Suns of Arqa have been on the World Beat Music scene since 1979. They played at the very first Womad Music Festival in Shepton Mallet at the personal invitation of Peter Gabriel. Enough said. Having performed over the years at many major European festivals such as Glastonbury, Big Chill, Telerama Dub festival to mention a  few, this intriguing outfit  are best known for their fusion of Indian music and electro dub. They have always had a strong indigenous element to their compositions. So imagine my surprise when I popped this into the CD player to discover an album of Leonard Cohen cover songs. Sound interesting? Or maybe you’re thinking what the heck? Let me tell you Stranger Music is a phenomenal reinterpretation of Leonard Cohen like I’ve never heard before. Fusing their signature world beat elements, tight electronica and dub with some absolutely gorgeous vocal delivery if I had not known that these were Leonard Cohen covers, I may not have guessed it, such is the magnificent reconstruction of his songs. I cannot recommend this enough for any serious world beat fan. Simply superb. 

' Lush keyboards and tablas kick in on “The Window” to provide a drifting rhythm that gives it a Goa trance feel full of early morning ambience.' Gary Parsons: FREQ MAG

'The Window' from SUNS OF ARQA album  Stranger Music: 
Music by Suns Of Arqa, Rhythms by Muslim Gauze, Angel Eye on Vocals, Mixed by David Hendry.

The Window - muslim gauze rhythms

'Meet Me in Beirut' is Hadi Zeidan's 4th solo album.
Featuring eight tracks and a bonus cut, the album is a musical examination of scenes lived or imagined by the artist in his home city Beirut.

Compositions span from kraut-inspired patterns to garage rock, bellydance noise and a synth maqam solo, in a quest to emancipate Zeidan's work from the normative genres.

Digital release only.

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Torino Express

From the album Super Stambeli: https://soundcloud.com/ssshouka/sets/ammar-808-super-stambeli

Super Stabeli

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Doudou Brahim

Super Stambeli

Arbia

Download the album: shouka.bandcamp.com/album/drup
All tracks composed, recorded and mixed by Nuri
All samples used by permission
Mastered by Benoit Courribet
Cover artwork & design by Sarah Ennouri
℗ & © Shouka 2017 – All rights reserved
Under exclusive licence to Shouka
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMAtwTaWxpU&ab_channel=Shouka

Drup

Zl Alibah - Ghamazni Gattellni (Rebel Up! Libya Duckfood Stomper Badre Edit )

and this concludes my Dubstep EP project ( This is not Sparta ).
hope you all enjoy and wait for a proper release ;-)
AVAILABLE ON
http://www.wonderwheelrecordings.com/


Gypsy stepper

Ensen Dhaif (Cubenx Rework)

Malayeen

Malayeen - Dina

this is a brutal bass track from the north west region of tunisia, 
produced by Ammar 808, and interpreted by Cheb Hassen Tej on the vocal and Lassed Bougalmi on the flute.
image from the Ammar 808 concert Night of Surprise (Munich, Germany ), shot by Elisa Maria.

Essoug Rsam - (The Wire Version)

The originator of the Dub Caravan project is Felix Aburdene - an artist, multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer of Palestinian descent, striving to create a multi-dimensional musical landscape for listeners who are craving something fresh, original and out of this world…This atypical Caravan (project) of sounds is of a nomadic nature and is in constant motion.

It isn’t bound to a single location, country or city. Dub Caravan continuously wanders around the world in pursuit of recruiting Poets, Singers, Musicians and other Artists from various cultures and countries in order to concoct new and original exotic sounds...

Members/partakers of the Dub Caravan project jump on and off as they please but always remain part of the Caravan. Being a member of this project is about belonging to something special without being bound to it. It’s organic, natural and free flowing…

In theory, the music of Dub Caravan is not associated with any one style but it is heavily influenced by Arabic folk music, Electronic music, Dub, Reggae particularly from the Mediterranean and Middle East.

Call of the Bedouins - نداء البدو

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