SPRING / SUMMER / 2017

مريم حسن

★ Music Room ★

الله اکبر

Mariem Hassan - Haiyu

Almost as big as the USA, the vast Sahara spans Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.  Despite being the hottest desert on earth, it is home to millions of people whose diverse cultures and traditions create a vivid cultural landscape.  This Rough Guide features the region’s best-loved artists as well as exploring beyond the arid sandscapes to reveal hidden Saharan sounds. 

For more information, visit www.worldmusic.net/sahara

The Sahara spans a humungous 3,600,000 square miles across North Africa, from the Red Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. Its photogenic undulating sandscapes have seduced travellers, artists and storytellers for centuries. 
Since the ancient empires of Nubia, the Great Desert has been inhabited consistently: Phoenicians, Egyptians, Greeks, Berbers, Ottoman Turks and European colonialists are among the tribes that have lived in its realms. Among the Sahara’s present-day inhabitants are nomad Fulani, Tubu and Tuareg peoples who recall stories of ancient battles forcing their ancestors to seek refuge deep in the desert where they carved out a way of life, constantly moving onwards, respecting the moods and winds of the desert herself. Religion is largely Islamic in the region with cultural remnants of Christian, Pagan and Jewish traditions audible in local dialects and traditions. 
Today religious and traditional factions across the Sahara jostle against each other making for a vivid political landscape, not without conflict. Of course political passions inform musical expressions, many of which are portentously highlighted on this insightful album. Etran Finawata from Niger strive to promote unity - their band members are from both the Wodaabe and Touareg ethnicities which have historically been rivals. Mariem Hassan is a Saharawi singer whose music pays tribute to old poems written by Ali Bachir and Lamin Allal, artists from her oppressed nation who were forced to live in exile. The title of her 2012 album El Aaiún Egdat (El Aaiún on Fire) casts a striking comment on the largest city in the Western Sahara, which is under Moroccan occupation. Toureg de Fewet are from Libya and are inspired by their homeland’s traditional song  repertoire.
Other artists bend expectations, re-working familiar pop genres into new, surprising formations. Anansy Cissé sucks up all the brilliant things about well-trodden West African ‘Desert Blues’ trope and spits them out with a new agitated attitude. Moudou Ould Mattala hails from Mauritania, his guitar style has Pink Floyd-ian inspirations. AGS & EJ represent the North-Eastern reaches of the Sahara on track ‘Ya Salam’. Salamat, headed up by Percussion Mahmoud Fadl, explore Nubian elements of Egyptian music, as does Ali Hassan Kuban. Malian rising star Djama Djigui speaks a new language with his tamani (talking drum).

Mariem Hassan: Legneiba (taken from The Rough Guide To The Sahara)

Tonight I'll be Pretty Ft. Mariem Hassan 

Composition by Ravid Kahalani
Lyrics by Mariem Hassan, Zaim Alal & Ravid Kahalani Arranged by Rony Iwryn, Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, Itamar Borochov, Itamar Doari, Roy Harmon
￼￼￼i will be there with you Laila
i will be there with you all the time
wherever you go you will shine like the sun with your light on me and on humanity
باكون موجود معاكي يا ليلى باكون موجود معاكي في كل وقت
واين مارحتي بتضلي تشرقي كالشمس بضوش عليا وعلى كل البشر

08. Tonight I'll be Pretty ft. Mariem Hassan

Stromae - Ave Cesaria

Salem - Mariem Hassan - سالم- مريم حسن

Composition, Arrangement, Instruments, Recording, by me

آواز و ملودی آواز: علی ساکت یزدی
موسیقی: ماهان فرزاد
شعر: شهاب موسوی

Music: Mahan Farzad
Vocal and Melody: Ali Saket Yazdi
Lyrics: Shahab Mousavi
صدای مراسم و نوحه خوانی در این آهنگ، از عزاداری محرم 2 سال پیش (92) هیئت بعثت یزد است.

Blood's Spilled for God, Again | باز به نام خدا خون کسی شد روا (ft. Ali Saket Yazdi)

Nana Del Caballo Grande- Camaron (MoM Edit)

Tar: Hossein Alizadeh's improvisation at his 65th birthday

Life Story (Hossein Alizadeh's Tar)

Lan Mè Bougonné - Pierre X

Mariem Hassan - Arrabi Al Arabe

Dotar line is taken from the film "Gypsy" directed by Ali Shah Hatami
and is played in "Maghamollah" style

دوتار نوازی این آهنگ از فیلم "کولی" اثر علی شاه حاتمی برداشته
و در مقام الله نواخته شده

Gypsy (Piano and Dotar)

Young Dumb and Broke, 8TEEN, Another Sad Love Song// Khalid// American Teen

Hak Baker @ 93 Feet East, London (May 19th)
FB Event: https://goo.gl/nak02r // E-Ticket https://goo.gl/wxAisD // Physical https://goo.gl/lcwk5w

The Misfits EP coming soon.

Conundrum

"Hot, Cool, Spice"

Funky Calypso - Lancelot Layne

akalé wubé !!! - https://soundcloud.com/akalewube


"The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life."

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akalé wubé - "marye" & linton kwesi johnson reads derek walcotts „love after love“(chöko aba edit)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariem_Hassan

Mariem Hassan _ Canciَn de la Intifada

Vieux Farka Touré's beautiful latest album was recorded as an homage to his homeland.  Being that his native Mali has been splintered by territorial fighting between Tuareg and Islamic rebels since January 2012, his new album, Mon Pays, is devoted to reminding the world about the beauty and culture of his homeland.
 
‘For me it is a statement for the world that this land is for the sons and daughters of Mali, not for Al Qaeda or any militants. This land is for peace and beauty, rich culture and tolerance.This is our heritage, what we must always fight to protect in any way that we can. For me, that means making music that reminds the world of who we are.’
 
Translating as ‘My Nation,’ this predominantly acoustic undertaking had been planned before the invasions began. Inspired by his work with Israeli pianist and vocalist Idan Raichel, Touré initially went into a Bamako studio to honor the acoustic blues tradition of Northern and Southern Mali. Since that time, Mon Pays transformed into an artifact of cultural preservation.

Two songs on the project -Future’ and ‘Peace’ feature Sidiki Diabate’s kora leading an emotional charge complemented by Touré’s spectacular guitar work. Both tracks represent an important generational "passing of the torch" as Sidiki’s father, Toumani is considered one of the greatest living kora masters and was a close friend of Vieux’s father Ali. Their two records together, In the Heart of the Moon and Ali and Toumani, were awarded Grammies. At the 2011 ceremonies, Vieux accepted the prestigious award for his father, who had recently passed from bone cancer.

Mon Pays is the most mature and lovely record yet from one of this generation's most exciting artists to come out of Mali and one of world music's true rising stars.


Mariem Hassan - Arrabi Al Arabe

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