If I Rise

Three Steps
Once Upon a City Album
Music by : Faraj Suleiman

ALBUM :- https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/onc...

piano : Faraj Suleiman
drums : Rami Nakhlee
Guitar bass: Shadi Awidat

itunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/once-upon-a-city/id1205320422

www.farajsuleiman.com

Faraj Suleiman - Three Steps

a playlist of the music of Ikara - a theatre play written and produced by hooda shawa and directed by Alison Shan Price and Yousef Al Hashash. 
Taqa productions(Kuwait)

singers : rana khoury, mouna hawa
oud : habib shihadeh hanna

music by : Faraj Suleiman

1.introducion

سنية مبارك ـ يا ڨمرة الليل

ينصح باستعمال السماعات
تم تسجيل هذه الصورة الصوتية على شرفة مبنى نصف مدمر  مع ابريق
شاي وأبوياسين عازفا على البزق قبيل مغيب يوم الخميس الموافق للرابع من كانون الثاني للعام الثامن عشر بعد الالفية الثانية

تسجيل : تيم السيوفي

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Headphones are recommended
This audio Image was recorded on the balcony of a half-ruined building with a teapot and Abu yaseen playing on Buzuq on Thursday, January 4th,  18 years after the Second Millennium.

Recorded by: Tim alSiofi. a

Buzuq - أبو ياسين وكوب من الشاي

Download the full album here - 
https://mostakell.com/collections/all-releases/products/la-bombe

La Bombe - Defection
Composition - Khaled Soubeih

لا بومب - انشقاق
موسيقى: خالد صبيح

The band’s first album is titled “La Bombe”, also a title for the shows performed at Metro Al Madina which have received great feedback for over two years. This album’s most noticeable trait is the political and social satire present in almost every song. The album’s tracks address many aspects such as religious extremism, cultural, artistic and political disorder, and most importantly, hysteria within an entire nation. The music arrangements were done differently in this album, including instruments such as the violin, the Cello, the accordion and the tuba. The band began recording “La Bombe” in December 2015, after they got a grant from AFAC. Recording and mixing were done at One Hertz Studios under the supervision of sound engineer Jawad Chaaban. In 2015, the band performed in Jordan and proceeded to go on tour around Europe as part of the Beirut and Beyond Music Festival in 2017. All production was handled by Metro Al Madina.

یحمل الألبوم الأول للفرقة اسم "لا بومب"، وھو اسم سلسلة العروض التي أقامتھا الفرقة في العام 2014 في مترو المدینة، ولاقت إقبالاً واسعاً دفع إلى تمدیدھا بشكل مستمر على مدى عامین.
الحاضر الأكبر في "لابومب" ھي الأغاني السیاسیة والاجتماعیة التي تنتقد الواقع العربي القائم، بین الاستبداد السیاسي والتشدّد الدیني، وحالة الھستیریا التي تعیشھا بلدان المنطقة، والھذیان السیاسي والفنّي والثقافي.
وقد نفذت ھذه القطع في الألبوم بتوزیعات جدیدة، ودخلت علیھا آلات مختلفة مثل الكمانجات والتشیللو والأكوردیون والتوبا.

بدأ تسجیل الألبوم في كانون الأول/دیسمبر 2015 ، بعد حصول الفرقة على منحة من مؤسسة "آفاق"، وتمّ التسجیل والتولیف في استودیو "وان ھرتز" باشراف مھندس الصوت جواد شعبان. لعبت الفرقة البومھا الجدید في الأردن في آب 2015 وثمّ في سنة 2017 ، قامت الفرقة بجولة حول أوروبا بالاشتراك مع مھرجان BBIMF تولى مترو المدینة عملیات انتاج الألبوم والمساھمة في تمویل نفقات إضافیة لحسن انتاج العمل.

Album Credits:
Khaled Soubeih: Piano & Backing Vocals
Naim El Asmar: Vocals
Sandy Shamoun: Vocals
Imad Hashisho: Oud & Backing Vocals
Abed Kobaissy: Buzuq & Backing Vocals
Ali El Hout: Percussion & Backing Vocals

With the collaboration of Samah BoulMona: Accordeon
Mohammed Nahas: Qanun , Antoine Khalife Michel Khairallah, Michel El Murr, Anne-Claire Khoury: Violins, Anastasia El Murr: Cello.

Music Production: Khaled Soubeih.
Co-Produced by Metro Al Madina and The Great Departed.
Artistic Direction: Naim El Asmar.
Production Managment: Metro Al Madina
Recording and mixing: One Hertz Studios under the supervision of sound engineer Jawad Chaaban
Mastering Engineer: Khayam Allami 

Album Design: Ramy Al Asmar & George Tabatadze.
Logo Design: Hussien Majed.

Thanks:
AFAC, Hisham Jaber, Sarah Nohra, Ziad El Ahmadie, Rayan Majed, Haytham Chamas, Sirine El Asir

Stream or download the full album "La Bombe" through the following links: 
Anghami - https://play.anghami.com/album/4126844
Itunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/la-...
Spotify - http://open.spotify.com/album/6iXy0GA...
Deezer - https://www.deezer.com/en/album/60873912
Bandcamp - https://alrahelalkabir.bandcamp.com/

La Bombe

Defection

Download Album حمّل

Defection - The Great Departed #LaBombe انشقاق - الراحل الكبير #لابومب

Oboe: Oleg Balanuta
Clarinet: Ciprian Melente
Bassoon: Ionut Mardare

Recorded & mixed by Nabil Abdul Khalek at Signwave Studios.

I was struck by the realization that since I was a boy, the idea of war was not only normalized, but glorified with all kinds of war toys. Little heroic action figures, tanks, airplanes, missiles. A child's innocence combined with these toys which in reality represent something as terrible as war is something that probably translates as passiveness to war in adulthood. 

"Little Toy Soldiers going off to war
None will ever live to  see age twenty four
None of them even  know what they're fighting for
Little Toy Soldiers going off to war

The world has always been this way
With Emperors and Kings
Fighting with toy soldiers
And the glory that it brings

Land, beliefs, religion
The basis of the war
fought by young toy soldiers
Who all die by the score

Time has taught us nothing
But, it's changed the way we fight
War is a full day job
Now that it is fought at night

The boards of little armies
Are now shown up on the screen
With all the little soldiers
Lit in different shades of green

They used to be all metal
Painted up in nice bright shades
With a General on horseback
Leading all his smart brigades

Then, the men were plastic
glued to bits of wood
Behaving as a unit
Just like a soldier should

Now, the war is different
They're up there in different hues
You can watch them fight in real time
Just like on the nightly news

The only thing remaining
The thing that's stayed the same
Is that nobody in power
Know the Little Soldiers names

Little Toy Soldiers going off to war
None will ever live to  see age twenty four
None of them even  know what they're fighting for
Little Toy Soldiers going off to war"

"Little Toy Soldiers" by Roger Turner
April 29 2018
Copyright © roger turner | Year Posted 2018

Photograph: Teresa Evangeline 
(http://teresaevangeline.blogspot.com/2013/11/toy-soldiers.html)

"Toy Soldiers" Suite for Woodwind Trio (3rd Movement)

Interview recorded at KZSU 90.1 FM (Stanford University)on Feb 20, 2019
Info + pics + song listing at https://www.arabology.org/2019/03/zeidhamdan.html
Stanford Lecturer + Arabology Radio Host Dr. Ramzi Salti interviews Lebanese songwriter/singer Zeid Hamdan, the music producer behind some of the most successful bands on the Lebanese and regional alternative scene. 
This interview focuses on Zeid Hamdan's musical journey and includes rare song excerpts + a live session by Zeid Hamdan at KZSU 90.1 FM (Stanford University).  Interview also includes questions by Zalfa Rustom and Stanford student Jin Yun.
Throughout this interview, Zeid Hamdan reminisces about his experiences with such artists as Yasmine Hamdan + SoapKills (Arabic trip hop), The New Government (pop rock), Hiba Mansouri(Arabic trip hop), Kanjha Kora (Guineean Pop), Kazamada (Arabic electro pop), Maryam Saleh(Arabic electro pop), Dany Baladi(Arabic electro pop), Maii Waleed, Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, Marc Codsi, Mahmoud Radaideh (Jadal), Zeid and the Wings(New Arabic pop), #Melmo, and Khaled Mouzannar (Capernaum soundtrack).
He also discusses his arrest in July 2011 over a song deemed insulting to the Lebanese President where officials reportedly took exception to the lyrics: 'General go home'.
Zeid also discusses his collaboration with Khaled Mouzanar on the soundtrack of the Oscar nominated Lebanese film #Capernaum.
For more info on Zeid Hamdan see http://www.zeidhamdan.com/

Zeid Hamdan at Stanford University: Interview + Music + Live Session

Ritza's 2019 EP: Shoofi


Recorded at: El Warsha - Ahmed Kubbara
Produced, mixed and mastered by: Nader Abozied

ألبوم: شوفي  - 2019
تم التسجيل في ستوديو الورشة - أحمد كبارة
إنتاج موسيقي ومكسينج وماسترينج: نادر أبوزيد

Shoofi

Ritza - Shoofi   ريتزا - شوفي

When the Waves

Like Water

"نداء - نداء - نداء" 
إعداد وتقديم: رند خضير، ومونتاج وإخراج صوتي: محمود الخواجا
المقطوعات الموسيقية المستخدمة متاحة بموجب "رخصة المشاع الإبداعي"، وهي 
حسب الترتيب:
-       Small Hours - Chad Chrouch
-       Dakota - Unheard Music Concepts
-       Cold War Echo - Kai Engel
-       Cloud Burst - Kai Engel
-       Di Breun - Blue Dot Sessions
-       Trailrunner - Blue Dot Sessions
-       Lovers Hollow - Blue Dot Sessions
-       Picnic March - Blue Dot Sessions
-       Clouds - Alan Piljak

نداء.. نداء.. نداء - المدونّة الصوتية- طبع في القدس

Jazz Bassist and Composer based in Beirut, Lebanon.

"Toy Soldiers" Suite for Woodwind Trio (3rd Movement)

Makram A.Hosn