A sweaty and vibrant Ecstatic Dance at The Center For Yoga LA Hollywood August 6 2023

Ecstatic Dance Hollywood | Aug 6 2023

i'm actually very open to djing this stuff. lemme know if you have an event that might fit..

https://soundcloud.com/habibifunk

check out part one of the mix here:
https://soundcloud.com/jakarta-records/jakarta-radio-001-jannis-of

i got to travel a lot in north africa in the last years thru touring with blitz the ambassador and the studio session with oddisee for sawtuha in tunisia. while being there i did some digging and found some incredible music from the 60s and 70s. some of the music in this mix has zero info on the net, was never sold on ebay and has not been "rediscovered" yet. others are somewhat classics in the field of „arabic groove“. the music in this mix comes from morocco, libya, eggpt, algeria, lebanon and syria. 

photo by robert winter.

"Habibi Funk 002 Mix" by Jannis of Jakarta Records (Mix of Arabic 60s & 70s vinyl)

Break-up tune I wrote in 2009.  I like the beach images, which I took from visits to Nahant and Revere Beaches in Massachusetts.

Blue Line Train

During long, dreamy night drives with my parents in Illinois and Indiana, I would often hear music in my head as a boy.  This song came with a vivid and emotional memory, which is a good place to start writing.

llinois 14

Written on a visit to visit my dear friend Jonathan in Pittsburgh in 2008.  Was going thorough a rough break up.  I like the self-revealing vulnerability of the chorus.

Pittsburgh

Fared Shafinury 
Song: Behind the Seas
Poem: Sohrab Sepehri 
Album: Behind the Seas
now available on itunes, amazon, cdbaby
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Poshte Daryaha - Behind the Seas

Two Tribes - Helsingborg

Musical setting of the poem "Your First Eyes" by Rumi.
Produced in collaboration with Anush Mirbegian http://www.foreyeslikeoceans.com/archive .
Text performed in Turkish by Duriye Sagut.

English translation:
A lover has four streams inside,
Of water, wine, honey and milk.
Find those in yourself, and pay no attention
What so and so says about such and such
The rose does not care if someone calls it a thorn,
Or a jasmine. Ordinary eyes categorize
Human beings, That one is a Zoroastrian,
This one, Muslim.
Walk instead with the other vision given you,
Your first eyes. Don’t squint,
And don’t stare blankly like a vulture.
Those who love fire fall in the fire.
A fly slips from the edge into the whey,
If you are in love with the infinite,
Why grieve over earth washing away in the rain?
Bow to the essence in a human being.
A desert drinks war-blood,
But if it knew this secret,
Springs out rise, rose gardens.
Don’t be content with judging people good and bad.
Grow out of that. The great blessing is
That Shams has poured a strength into the ground
That lets us wait and trust the waiting.

Your First Eyes

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Your First Eyes

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