Ghalia Benali_ HAYAMATNY _غالية بنعلي_ هيمتني

We are back with Maryam with a second mix all about the beautiful anguish of love and loss through distance.

TRACKLIST:

tara el lail - mustafa ahmad
bagaya jrooh - khaled abdulrahman
alhob asrar - 
ya naba’at el rehan - asil hamim
el bariha - al ekhwa band
al bariha nom - ouda al muhanna
to ham boro ey bivafa - hayedeh 
makhloogh - googoosh
sadeg el neya - karama mersal
naar el neshama - al ajras band
shilina ya bu jnahain - abubakir salem
ya ama - toyoor dejla

ROSVÂA x MARYAM I bi vafa

اسق العطاش - فايز الحلو

TASCAM DR-44WL

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Adela Mede, Marta Forsberg, and Nindya Nareswari in conversation with Ján Solčáni

This panel discussion brings together three distinctive artists whose SHAPE+ supported residency at CTM 2025 explores the connections between traditional vocal practice and the aesthetics of contemporary electronic music. Musician Adela Mede, whose work crosses linguistic and socio-cultural boundaries through Slovak, Hungarian, and English voices, joins sound experimentalist Marta Forsberg and light artist Nindya Nareswari. Together, they will share their collective approach to the resynthesis of folklore, challenging its notion as a static form.

Central here are Adela's multilingual sonic narratives that challenge the East-West cultural binary while exploring how the practice of storytelling can be transformed through electronic textures and stage presence. In doing so, we seek to address questions about the place of cultural heritage in an era of rising illiberalism and populist nationalism. Through the lens of their collaborative performance, the artists will explore how technology, light and voice can create environments that honour the traditional while updating it within new territories of expression.

CTM 2025: Folk Forward – Resounding the Roots Through a Contemporary Voice

Ethiopian Records - In My Sleep

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Saaz & Sounds: RASMi x WANAWAL - Sunayah & Êvar Hussayni - 25 Aug 2025

_A sonic exploration of music which inspires me from North Africa to West Asia, where my roots run deep - to the dreams of my community which holds the branches of my existence from Yemen to New York and everywhere and nowhere in between._ - Yumna Al-Arashi, Yemeni-American photographer 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/dont-assume-day/episodes/dont-assume-day-yumna-al-arashi-17th-october-2025

Yumna Al-Arashi 171025

Taken from the album ‘The Elephant Clock of Al Jazari’ (ROKU19) LP 

Recorded live at OTO in May 2015 and mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, the LP comprises four typically genre-defying and sonically dexterous pieces from one of the UK's most extraordinary pianists. In Pat's own words:

The title for this Album, was inspired by the incredible automatic water clock invented by Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari. Al Jazari refers to the fact he was born in Al Jazira which lies between the Tigris and the Euphrates in what is now Northern Iraq. Badi al Zaman means prodigy of the age. He is known by historians of technology as the father of modern robotics. The Elephant Clock at seven metres high is a testament to his engineering genius, it utilizes Greek water raising technology, combined with an Indian elephant, Egyptian phoenix, Arabian figures, Persian carpet and Chinese Dragons celebrating the diversity of cultures in the world. This and other marvels of engineering can be found in his Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices translated by Donald Hill (Pakistan Hijra Council). Over 50 devices are mentioned. Amongst them the first analog computer, his remarkable Castle Clock, but the debt the world owes this muslim genius is found in his remarkable water raising devices, particularly water raising device number 4 where for the first time a crank connecting rod system is used. The crank is considered to be the most important single mechanical device after the wheel, by 1206 this is found fully developed in Jazari`s machines predating Francesco di Giorgio Martini by 3 centuries.

For Akl Haytham is dedicated to the great Polymath Genius who wrote the great book on vision, the first person to give us a true understanding of how we see. Lubb is a Arabic word meaning innermost consciousness, finally Done is loosely based on a well known standard.

- Pat Thomas 26TH May 2017

Pat Thomas began playing  piano at the age of eight. He studied classical music and reggae was an early interest. Thomas was inspired to take up Jazz after seeing legendary pianist Oscar Peterson on television. By 1979, Thomas was performing seriously as an improviser. In 1980 he became a member of oxford based group Ghosts with Pete Mcphail and Matt Lewis. Has worked with Mike Cooper, Steve Beresford, Geoff Hawkins, Chuck Berry, Tim Hill, Alex Ward, Eugene Chadbourne, Steve Noble, Jimmy Carl Black, Thurston  Moore, Mats Gustafsson, Evan Parker, Oliver Lake, Alan Silva, Bill Dixon, Joe Gallivan, Alan Wilkinson, John Edwards, John Zorn, John Butcher, John Russell and a duo with Mark Sanders since 1986 a duo with Steve Noble (who first met in 1979).  Current activities include Black Top with Orphy Robinson, Valid Tractor with Lawrence Casserley and Dom Lash, About Group with Alexis Taylor and John Coxon, Albert Newton with Charles Haywood and the Founder Effect with John Coxon, a duo with Han Bennink and a trio with William Parker and Hamid Drake.

Pat Thomas received Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers in 2014.

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Pat Thomas - Elephant

A selection of East African pop music (1960s-1990s), including rare Ethiopian electronica and urban azmariwotch on cassette, Somali dhaanto on VHS tapes of television broadcasts, and some great taarab records from Zanzibar/Tanzania and Kenya.

PLAYLIST
ENGENAÑELANE, BETSAT SEYOUM & ABBEBE FEKADE [ETHIOPIA] 
AGEREN AYEHUWAT, YISHAK BANJAW [ETHIOPIA, 1986]
LIBEY MA'ADULEY, YISHAK BANJAW [ETHIOPIA, 1986] 
TEZETA, MUNAYE MENBERRU [ETHIOPIA, MID-1970S] 
AHWAK, SOLOMON MAHMOUD [SUDAN, YEAR UNKNOWN] 
FATUMA GASSIM: WAIMALYMAFUN EFITTUBRA [SOMALIA, YEAR UNKNOWN] 
UNKNOWN, QADIIJO QALANJO [SOMALIA, YEAR UNKNOWN] 
DIRYAAN, QADIIJO QALANJO [SOMALIA, YEAR UNKNOWN]  
WAAYO, FAYNUUS (SOMALIA, YEAR UNKNOWN) 
MA HURDEE, (DUR BAND/SAHRA DAWO & MUKTAR "IDI" RAMADAN [SOMALIA, 1986] 
RAG WAA NACAB IYO NASTEEXO, AAMINA CAMAARI [SOMALIA, 1980S] 
YA ZAMANI, ZUHURA SWALEH [KENYA, 1981]
MPENDE ANAEKUPENDA, URSULLA & BLACK STAR MUSIC CLUB [TANZANIA, 1983]
CHOZI LANITOKA, SHARMILA & BLACK STAR MUSICAL CLUB [TANZANIA, 1983]
NDEGE KAA UFIKIRI, YASEEN MOHAMED [KENYA, 1960S]

RIAFC 008 - EAST AFRICAN MIXTAPE

East African Mixtape (RIAFC 008)

ROKU022 - Forthcoming late November 2019

LP 1:
SIDE A E-Lail [The Night] East - 19:28
SIDE B Farah ‘Alaiyna (Joy Upon Us) - 20:57
LP 2:
SIDE A + B E-Lail [The Night] West- 34:31

د [Ahmed] – the quartet of Pat Thomas, Antonin Gerbal, Joel Grip and Seymour Wright – make music of heavy rhythm, repetition and syncopation set deep into an understanding of jazz and the obscure depths of its history. Across the 2 LPs which make up ‘Super Majnoon [East Meets West] ’the group work and rework the music of the late musician Ahmed Abdul-Malik to create a stamping, swinging, relentlessly propulsive record where profundity and physicality root right back to ecstatic feeling. 

Abdul-Malik was a NYC bassist, oudist, composer, educator and philosopher who fused aspects of American, Arabic and East African thought, ethics, meanings and beliefs in open and experimental ways to make vital, forward leaning jazz. [Ahmed] reimagine the notes of Malik as they push for new ground. Melodies respirate, swell, escalate and combust in a driving jazz which yes is technical, yes is accomplished, but ultimately just foot-to-the-floor swings. 

‘Super Majnoon [East Meets West]’ is a title fused from the leader of the Master Musicians of Jajouka Bechir Attar’s description of [Ahmed] after hearing them in Switzerland last year (Majnoon is the arabic slang for ‘crazy’), and Abdul-Malik’s 1959 album East Meets West. Arriving as a double LP, the first comprises studio recordings of [Ahmed] at Hong Kong’s Empty Gallery in 2018 and the second a scorched live recording at OTO from August 2018. The record features photos by Bert Glinnand Taku Unamiand ‘in and out’ liner notes by James G. Spady – historian and journalist from Philadelphia, the author of books on Marcus Garvey and the trilogy of groundbreaking books on hip hop (Nation Conscious Rap, Street Conscious Rap, The Global Cypha).

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