Name: Malika - Ya ya twist by Miziqa toukoum in Retro
Duration: 4 min 21 s
Description: Allegria Banon, puis Malika et enfin Tina.

Retro

Allegria Banon, puis Malika et enfin Tina. 

Malika - Ya ya twist

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Soapkills - "Herzan"

Version muy particular. Saludos Jose Calderon.

Mambo Italiano - Izumi Yukimura

NEW: Cookin' Country - Demo - Sweep Productions

Vinyl, CD and digital. 16 tracks.

A magic mixture of traditionnal Min'yo songs and latin jazz elements. Recorded in Japan between 1958 and 1962.

With its second release, Akuphone keeps exploring Asia with an original compilation of Japanese singer Chiemi Eri. This edition – which is available in vinyl record, CD and digital - includes exclusive liner notes and a rich calligraphed booklet containing the romanization of lyrics. It encourages to (re)discover Chiemi Eri’s recordings. On this compilation, Akuphone has brought together 16 songs from 10 inches albums originally released by King Records (Japan) between 1958 and 1962.

As the daughter of a musician father and a singer mother, Chiemi Eri (1937-1982) grew up in a musical environment. When she was still a teenager, she started a career as a singer on US military bases. She became famous by singing numerous classics from the post-war American musical repertoire. At the age of 14 she recorded the song Tennessee Waltz with King Records, which turned out to be an immediate success, the first of many others.

Chiemi Eri is considered as one of the most famous Japanese singers of the 20th century, more precisely of the Showa era (1926-1989), named after the Japanese emperor of the time, better known under his westernized name Hirohito. Both a singer and an actress – she played in more than 50 films, as well as many theatre plays – she definitely made a mark in the post-war Japanese cultural landscape, along with fellow singer-actresses Izumi Yukimura and Hibari Misora.

The success of these true national icons, who were nicknamed « the three sisters », can be connected to the specific context of the time, that is the cultural opening of Japan which, although initiated a century before, accelerated with the US military occupation of the archipelago (1945-1952). This period saw the import of popular musical styles of the time: jazz, be-bop, swing, mambo, etc, as well as the development of a hybrid musical style - the Kayokyoku - which consists of a delicious mix of so-called “western” music with Japanese music. 

Combining vocal jazz, Latino rhythms and Japanese folk, this new compilation of Chiemi Eri offers an original musical syncretism. Supported by Tadaaki Misago and the Tokyo Cuban Boys – the oldest and most prolific latin-jazz group in Japan – Chiemi Eri sings themes, in Japanese, that are mainly taken from the traditional folklore. Thus, the drums and brass of the Cuban arrangements are mixed with the Min’yo, which shows how rich these folk songs are: every region, every local tradition, every event is celebrated by a particular song or dance. Chiemi Eri also reveals the vocal prowess specific to the Min’yo, in particular the kobushi, a sort of melisma – this vocal technic that consists in singing a single syllable while moving between several different notes in succession.

This compilation, which surprisingly blends Min’yo and latin-jazz elements, invites to the discovery of the archipelago from a different perspective.

more information here : akuphone.com

Chiemi Eri : Otemo-Yan

Chiemi Eri : Fukagawa Kuzushi

Chiemi Eri : Okosa-Bushi

Photo : ©Raphaël Lugassy

Ecrit et composé par Sarah Maison
Enregistrement et mix Studio Spectral / Robin Leduc 

Tous les instruments Robin Leduc sauf 
Orgues : Cyrus Hordé et Sarah Maison
Sifflet : Julien Gasc 
Guitare 12 cordes à la fin : Hedi Bensalem

Western Arabisant

Arabic Rock & Oriental Groove

pre-order: https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/habibi-funk-006-modern-music

Al Massrieen was one of the first bands I learned about once I discovered the tape format. They were really popular in Egypt in the 1970s and the more of their music I found on either tapes or Arabic pirate mp3 sites, the more I was becoming a fan. Only very few bands from the region can match the band’s versatility as well as their strive for innovation. Hany Shenoda is the man behind the Al Massrieen band. He is a reknown figure of the Egyptian music scene and has worked with everyone from Abdel Halim Hafez to Mohamed Mounir. Al Massrieen was his attempt to introduce his ideas of modernizing Egyptian music, heavily encouraged by Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt's only winner of the Nobel Price for literature) after discussing his ideas with him.

Al Massrieen - Men Awel Deqiqa (pre-order now!)

-هَنا-

يا ام الخُلخال
والكُحل الأسود في العيون 
الدَّمِع مِحتال 
وبلَحظة هالعُمُر بِخون

أعطيني ايدك
اسمحيلي برقصة
سِتي يا حلوة
يا إم الحَطَّة

ضُميني في حُضنك 
إحكيلي قصة
حَتوتة صغيرة 
تدَفيلي بُكرا

هَنا 
إنتِ وانا
دَواير بِتدور، بِتدور
بتدوِّر على نفسها 
في العيون

- Hana - 

You with the anklet
and the black eyeliner
tear drops are a cunning thing

and in a moment life cheats us. 

Give me your hand,
allow me to have this dance
grandma you beauty
with your scarf
put me in your arms
tell me a story
a little story
to warm my tomorrow

Hana,
you and me
we’re circles
going round and round
looking for themselves
in the eyes.



Music and Lyrics by Ruba Shamshoum

Ruba Shamshoum - Lead and backing vocals
Orlando Molina - Guitar
Barry Rycraft - Double bass
Matthew Jacobson - Drums
Mathew Berrill - Clarinet

Recording:
Recorded and mixed at Arad Studio, Dublin, 2016.
Recording Engineer - Leslie Keye
Mastering - Michael Buckley
Produced by Matthew Jacobson and Leslie Keye
Executive Producer - Amir Salameh

Album Design:
Illustrations - Charlotte Shama
Graphic Design - Joanne Shamshoum
Arabic language advisor - Eyad Barghuthy

Shamat

Hana

Hana | Ruba Shamshoum  -  هَنا | ربى شمشوم

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Faraji - Soura

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Produced by Zeid hamdan

Ehdefni

Mourib

Most of these songs are from my old vinyl-collection and I do not know in detail about all of them. Some of the Artists are Hattori, Eri Chiemi, Izumi Yukimura, Reiko Ikuta, Meiko Kaji, Hirota Mieko, Mie Nakao, The Peanuts and more. Ask for details, if interested...

KiMono-Stereo

From Radio Martiko's compilation "Zamaan Ya sukkar - Exotic Love Songs and Instrumentals from the Egyptian Sixties.

Pre-order your copy here (DL+LP+limited edition):
radiomartiko.bandcamp.com/album/zamaan-ya-sukkar

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Issam Hajali might be most known for being the singer and main composer of the Lebanese band Ferkat Al Ard. Before the band came together Issam recorded a debut album under his own name called "Mouasalat Ila Jacad El Ard" in 1977 in exile in Paris. It was originally released in a run of less than 100 copies.

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