https://hanymehanna.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-airplanes-a-collection-of-instrumental-showpieces-and-scores-for-egyptian-films-and-tv-series-1973-1980

Neo-Pharaonic Library Funk, Kaleidoscopic Belly Dance and Intercontinental 70’s Airline Arrangements

A hearty serving of 19 compositions from the Egyptian King of the Farfisa organ, and pioneer of the oriental synth, Hany Mehanna along with his celestial orchestra. Exclusively remastered from his personal archive, Souma Records bring a selection of infectious rarities and previously unreleased gems featuring legendary Egyptian instrumentalists like Omar Khorshid and Khamis Henkish.

Get your copy here:

https://hanymehanna.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-airplanes-a-collection-of-instrumental-showpieces-and-scores-for-egyptian-films-and-tv-series-1973-1980

Limited edition 2LP 180g vinyl housed in a handmade gatefold jacket with extensive liner notes and illustrations

Masters Jukka

Souma Records 005 - Hany Mehanna Music For Airplanes - Hanady

GREEK SPECIAL live set at Mezrab Amsterdam.
Fred Kramer of Souma Records playing a 2-hour set of deep clarinet sounds, ethnic synths and hard bouzouki dance grooves.

Η Κατσίκα (GREEK SPECIAL) - SOUMA RECORDS DJ set @ Vintage Voudou Party - Mezrab 24 September 2022

A mix recorded from my 45s with songs in the infectious dance style from the Levant. Excuse me if it is not all technically Dabke. On the cover we see my drawing of the beautiful Samira Tawfik who's Bedouin style music I came to love while living in Amman, Jordan. Hope you enjoy!

Dabke!

Live recording at Radio Tempo Não Pára (20.05.2023)

Artist: @discourse-katayoun

Female Vocalists from Iran and Beyond w/ discourse @ Radio TNP 20.05.2023

There's a lot that's infectuous in Pakistani cinema from the seventies and most infectuous are surely the plentiful dance scenes on par with the best of sister industry in India - but here the dancing ladies are more agile, sometimes even serpentinous, less bombastic, performing solo and always joyful. And, yes, sensuous too, boldly flirting with the camera, clearly having agency while they lip-sync Nahid Akhtar's singing. Important detail is that they are almost always barefooted. There's dancing guys too but they remain in the shadow of their female colleagues. This mix from the early 2000s was originally called Barefooted Funk but it didn't communicate on the little cover pic I did for Soundcloud. But still, you can hear from the songs in this selection that no footwear was involved. It's light-footed and light-hearted, grounded and - again - extremely agile. There's loads of hand-percussion, bold guitars, horn- and organ-stabs and of course joyous singing. There was something in the air in seventies Pakistan for sure!

I've lived in Pakistan for a while around the year 2000 and wrote a few articles at the time on Pakistan's genre cinema, resulting in a chapter in Cinema and Society ('Pashto Horror Film In Pakistan' - Oxford University Press Pakistan) which zoomed in on the unlikely horror-film boom in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province. While staying in Lahore I was lucky to meet the owner of a cassette store called Jupiter Tuning Center who was looking to get rid of the back catalogue in the back of his shop, many hundreds of them (he used these 45's to compile tapes on demand for his customers but demand for cassettes was declining). 

After assisting Edo Bouman in releasing a few Bollywood compilations (The Bombay Connection and Bombshell Baby of Bombay), we wanted to try and compile the best of these Pakistani tracks, but Finder's Keepers skooped us with a couple of great compilations and discouraged we went on to do other things. This was before everything could be found on youtube and I mainly played this and other mixes on the local Amsterdam radio station Radio 100.

Here are some absolute favorites. I don't know if they were all compiled before, I hope there are some songs you haven't heard yet!

Lahore A Go Go - Vol 1

Initially heading up Calgary band Women, Patrick Flegel began performing and writing music in drag as Cindy Lee in the early 2010s, coinciding with their debut solo long player "Tatlashea". Their music – which tackles themes of personal struggle, spirituality and love with a tender frankness – sounds like pop thats been run through the ringer. Dissonance marries harmony in tightly written songs inspired by the musicality and aesthetics of a misremembered bygone era. 

This In Focus was selected by June.

Photo: Phil Osborne 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-cindy-lee-26th-july-2024

In Focus: Cindy Lee 260724

Recorded live on Sept 2024 at the Commercial Rowing Club, Dublin.

T-Woc & Souma at Donal Dineen's Backstory Sept 2024

Selection by Baya Deliciosa

Today is International Women’s Day and for this most wonderful day of the year I made a 2-hour mix with some favourite tunes selected by the love and light of my life Loes aka "Baya Deliciosa". Just like so many other women on this planet, she has many talents and skills to do crazy stuff in her life and overcome challenges that we men will never be capable of. Before evil brainless male dictators make plans to omit the day we celebrate our women, we need to use this time to support our loved ones and all the women that are still put down and abused worldwide.

Tracklist:

1. The Take Vibe EP – Golden brown
2. Pagona Athanasiou - Epitagi sti mana
3. Voula Palla – Ntilperaki
4. Poly Panou - San Tzigana Tha Se Ntyso
5. Betty Daskalaki - Tou naftikou o ponos
6. Maria Korderá - Ola Sou Ta Syghoráo (To Trellópaido)
7. Claudio – Maria Dolores
8. Claudio - Mo assize mo mazine
9. Michou - Maloya Ton Tisane
10. Olmedo Torres Y Los Gatos - Si Tú Me Olvidas
11. Grupo Selva - El Sabor De Mi Selva
12. Dora Lopes - Estourou No Norte
13. Betty Harris - What'd I Do Wrong
14. Band Nada Kentjana – Djaleuleudja
15. Bing Slamet - Gendjer Gendjer
16. Stan & His Experimental Chorus - Men Ware Bio
17. Stan & His Experimental Chorus - Eno Brebre
18. André Rédo Et Les Guitar Boys - La Royauté Des Crustacés
19. Šaban Bajramović - Maruška
20. Orkestra Roma - Proleten Tanz
21. Filio Pyrgiaki - I diki mou den se theloun
22. Vangelis Papas - Toumbata toumbata
23. Annoula Tsachálou - San Náme Xéni
24. Los Belking's - Empujando Fuerte
25. Cyril Diaz Orchestra - Mme. Kilio
26. Conjunto Combo Puruha - Mi Sueño
27. Derrick Morgan - Greedy Gal
28. Dillinger - John Devour
29. Bend'Nobo 83 – Prigoso
30. Chico Montenegro - N'Ga Maria
31. El Cieguito De Nagua - La Aspirina
32. Francis Rodriguez - Ven Cariñito
33. Franck-Lassan - Mbili-mbili
34. Orchestre T.P.O.K. Jazz – Kinsiona
35. Juka Maluleka And The Gazankulu Queens - Kokwana Wame
36. Reverend Gary Davis - I heard the angels singing
37. Nouara – Nemfaraq
38. Mohamed Rashid – Hayartini
39. Awada Al Sulayamani - Wajudi (Pt.1)

Image: Egyptian actress and dancer Samia Gamal showing her dirty feet.

Jumble Jam Sweet Caramel

rien nada nichts

Short guitar improvisation with a supercollider patch im currently working on.

Cuts

This is a mix painstakingly done from a large collection of library 10"s that play at 78 rpm. The exotica connoisseur will likely only recognize a handful of tracks, if any. There's loads of tracks in a Les Baxter vein, while others have the exotica/latin combo sound of a Gene Rains, Arthur Lyman or Martin Denny. If you, like me, find the final image from Love in times of Cholera by Marques appealing, this mix is for you. Raise the cholera flag, throw away your watch, and succumb to the lure of the tropics.

Jungle River Boat

This is my Soundcloud.

https://www.beatport.com/release/keine-zeit/2167806
http://flo-huth.de
https://www.instagram.com/elektrosmogma

Cuts

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