Album : Acoustic , The Best of Souad Massi 2007

Souad Massi , Rani Rayha (I'm Leaving)Live Acoustic -- سعاد ماسي

La Mounie Li Gharo Meni

Oh Yeah Habibi: ten years and up-to-date

If you look up the word ‘arabicana’ you find a music genre and its inventors; NO blues. Even after ten years the band that combines Oriëntal roots music and American folk blues is still unique in the world. On the new album Oh Yeah Habibi, NO blues bridges the gap between east and west and changes the Nile and the Mississippi in one meandering musical delta.

Even though the band has been together for ten years, the new album Oh Yeah Habibi sounds direct and fresh like a debut album. U’d player Haytham Safia: “We went back to the core of guitar, u’d, double bass and percussion.” Different from the previous albums, NO blues chooses to use current events as topics for their songs. Songs like Exodus and World Keeps Turning refer to people that seek refuge and Two Trains and Gods Move refer to religious themes.”It struck us that our music seemed to have a different energy after the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo”, says bassist Anne-Maarten van Heuvelen. “NO blues has always been a political statement in music, we had to follow that up with our lyrics. Guitarist Ad van Meurs: ”We’ve never been a political band, but we don’t look the other way.”

Oh Yeah Habibi is more on topic than previous NO blues albums and the critically acclaimed arabicana from this Dutch based top team that has been working together for ten years, still has great impact. In twelve new studio tracks the band reaches a next level in their musical embrace between east and west.

02 Imta

If you look up the word ‘Arabicana’ you find a music genre and its inventors; NO blues. Even after ten years the band that combines Oriental roots music and American folk blues bridges the gap between east and west and changes the Nile and the Mississippi in one meandering musical delta. 

The best of ten years NO blues contains the highlights of a full decade of the unique blend of music called Arabicana. This limited edition vinyl records was released world wide on Record Store Day 2016 and is for sale in the record store or at shows. 

09 Ya Dunya

06 Black Cadillac

لحن: كريم قنديل 
composed by: Kareem Kandiel

Sidibishr Gibli - سيدي بشر قبلي

Toufic Farroukh - Ya Nassim Alrouh
توفيق فروخ - يا نسيم الروح

Toufic Farroukh - Ya Nassim Alrouh - توفيق فروخ - يا نسيم الروح

Lili boniche - Ana fil hob

Chehade Brothers & Michel Elefteriades - Setti

Karima Nayt- Ididn't know

يا راوي حكي حكاية
مادابك تكون رواية
حكي لي على ناس الزمان
حكي لي على ألف ليلة وليلة
وعلى لنجة بنت الغولة
وعلى ولد السلطان

حاجيتك ماجيتك
دنا بعيد من هادي دنيا
حاجيتك ماجيتك
كل واحد منا في قلبه حكاية

حكي وانسى بلي احنا كبار
في بالك رانا صغار
حكي لنا على الجنة حكي لنا على النار
على طير عمره ما طار
فهمنا معانى الدنيا

يا راوي حكي كما حكوا لك
ما تزيد ما نقص من عندك
كاين نشفوا على بالك
حكي لنسينا في هاد زمان
خلينا في كان يا ما كان

Souad Massi - Raoui    سعاد ماسي - راوي

If you look up the word ‘arabicana’ you find a music genre and its inventors; NO blues. Even after ten years the band that combines Oriëntal roots music and American folk blues is still unique in the world. On the new album Oh Yeah Habibi, NO blues bridges the gap between east and west and changes the Nile and the Mississippi in one meandering musical delta.

09 Ya Dunya

NO blues

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