Continental Breakfast

Çay ve Temiz Yaralar

middle east music

Arabic

drugs <3

Middle East Sounds

Power Playlist 22/6/2014

Eclectic beats

Playlist

arabic instruments

Soundway records present a unique record: a modern, haunting take on Sudanese music heard through the sonic lens of French artist / producer, Débruit and the poetic, ethereal lyrics and melodies of Sudanese-born singer Alsarah.

Aljawal (The Traveller) is a nomadic reflection for the 21st century. Each song reflects a new stop in the journey, with new cities and new people along the way. When Alsarah first heard Débruit's music she sensed and recognised a fellow traveller through the space and geography of his influences, a sense of time and history coupled with a forward-thinking futuristic outlook.

Born in the capital city of Sudan, Khartoum, Alsarah spent the first 8 years of her life here before she relocated to Taez, Yemen with her family to escape the ever-stifling regime in her native country. She abruptly moved to the US in 1994, when a brief civil war broke out in Yemen, and has lived there to this day.  

Xavier Thomas revealed Débruit in 2008 with 2 sold out 12″s for his and Fulgeance’s Parisian “Musique Large” imprint. Three more EPs on Civil Music followed that included his hit 'Nigeria What'. Piquing interest from the likes of XLR8R, Fact Mag, Benji B and Gilles Peterson his debut album ‘From The Horizon’ came out last year. His dazzling live electronics show has taken him around the world, from Russia to New York, Glastonbury to Sonar. 

On Aljawal he managed to capture and play with an analog sound that stretched the boundaries of the Sudanese rhythms and melodies that Alsarah had grown up with. A unique record was imagined and is finally presented here after a 2 year interplay of ideas and interaction between France and Brooklyn: Alsarah’s adopted home.

Pre-order: http://soundwayrecords.greedbag.com/buy/aljawal/
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/4ajej0

Pre-order

Débruit & Alsarah - Alkoan Baladi ٩. الكون بلدي

Güldür Yüzümü

Devam Et Yoluna (Erci E Remix)

قواعد العشق الاربعون مجمعة-

من قواعد العشق الاربعون[1]

since I bought more space on soundcloud, I might as well re-upload some Older stuff 
This one is from the album Secretly Famous


Saidi The Man

Oud Funk

Ana Arabi Ft. Ghallia Benali

Here is a remix that I had the pleasure to do for a very talented artist, Alsarah and the band Nubatones

Nuba Noutou -Alsarah and the Nubatones ( The spy from Cairo remix )

قرأتها على مشايخي :
فضيلة الشيخ المقرئ حسين عشيش . 
فضيلة الشيخ محمد محمود الشنقيطي . 
فضيلة الشيخ د. محمد رفيق الحسيني .
فضيلة الشيخ المقرئ د. هشام الجاسر الراجحي .
فضيلة الشيخ د.عبدالسلام المجيدي . 

المقدمة .. بصوت القارئ : عمر مظفر

باب الصفات .. بصوت القارئ : عمر مظفر

while I'm working on the new album, here is some older stuff that some of you might not know .....

Toe To Toe

Sons Of Hannibal

One and probably the last tune I upload from  my last  album ARABADUB . From now on I'm working on the new album, as well as the debut album of Brooklyn Gypsies which I'm now a member of.

Prince Ahmed

Well…. I said I would stop uploading form ARABADUB  but then again…..I should promote this record a  bit more before the next one…..After all, I'm only "secretly famous"  ;-)

Zeb-da

Buy on iTunes: bit.ly/1hTYhoa
Buy on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1uSOOne

"Movin On" from the album "Bosq y Orquesta de Madera". Featuring a great cast of homies - Evan Laflamme on Alto, Tenor, and Bari Sax, Serge Gamesbourg on bass, Todd Spadafore on Piano and Kon with the sage advice. 
I never felt a partial preview did this one justice, as it evolves and changes a lot from beginning to end, so I asked Ubiquity to let me put up the whole damn thing! I also think this jam was meant for summer! You can buy it and the b-side in any digital format (for a crazily cheap 1.49 I believe) through bandcamp on the buy link.

https://www.facebook.com/bosqmusic

Buy on Bandcamp

Bosq - Movin' On

Sugar Man (Jim Sharp Edit)

Marlena Shaw - Woman Of The Ghetto - Akshin Alizadeh Remix

Manu Chao - Clandestino (George T Edit)

this is a live version with reggae MC of the tune Kurdish delight on my album Secretly Famous and It's a FREE download .

Kurdish Delight Live ! 2011

Movie Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM8ILwvMeKc 

In Search of ... Part 1 - Intro / Main Theme

حدوته هنونه وامنا الغوله (ماما lela)

Lena Chamamyan - Love In Damascus

Two Steps From Hell - Norwegian Pirate

I am not a dancer
I am a dakini
I don’t dance ~ I embody

I am not a dancer
I am a priestess
I don’t dance ~ I bridge the unseen and the seen

I am not a dancer
I am an artist
I don’t dance ~ I write poetry with my body

I am not a dancer
I am an alchemist
I don’t dance ~ I transmute

I am not a dancer
I am a healer
I don’t dance ~ I am medicine
I am not a dancer
I am a sourceress
I don’t dance ~ I am dance

Poem by:       Imaya Sabine
Cover Art:      www.pointzeroproductions.net
Cover Photo: Judit Lefkovics-Virág
Mastering:     Medway Studios

Buy all

Diva - Martins Garden and Yechidah

Listen to a free preview of our new album.
“Soliloquy”
our 11th album, captures voices that express journeys, nature, humanity, dreams, echoes, ghosts and the creative fun of studio sessions.
Featuring: Sevval Sam (Turkey), Benjamín Escoriza (Radio Tarifa) &amp; Amal Murkus (Palestine).
More news at:
www.upbustleandout.co.uk


Up  Bustle and Out-Soliloquy album preview- www upbustleandout co uk

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (umami Edit)

Oops! I actually finished the tune today and added vocals and ciftelli.
Hope you all like the final version =)
BUY ALBUM ON
http://www.wonderwheelrecordings.com/


Thicker than Hooka Smoke!

Mixed By DJ Ravin For Buddha Bar XIII (2011)

The Spy From Cairo - Oud Funk

Batkallim - Natasha Atlas (Bombay Dub Orchestra's Atlas of the world mix)

Second Place Winner in the composition category of the Palestinian National Music Competition! (aka. Marcel Khalife Music Competition)

Pickles

Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd

مارسيل خليفة - أمر بأسمك

Recorded over 4 years in London and Venezuela, Cuban rumba, Venezuelan tambor and tonada, Ghanaian highlife, Ethiopian blues and calypso have been soaked and infused with psychedelia and spiritual jazz to come up with what Gilles Peterson described as “a really great record”. The DJ and tastemaker included the band in his recent ‘Hot For 2013 Show’ on BBC 6music, premiering the track Cumbacutiri.

A diverse host of heavyweight musicians from both sides of the Atlantic are led by London born Jack Yglesias, producer, multi-instrumentalist and a veteran of The Heliocentrics, and his wife Luzmira Zerpa, traditional Venezuelan musician, poet and singer with a magical voice acclaimed by Manu Chao.

Recorded while living in an abandoned vicarage in East London, the record contains three different generations of Luzmira’s family as well as a cast of musicians from the wider Family Atlantic family.

One of the guests on the album, legendary Ethiopian-jazz maestro Mulatu Astatke, adds a classic touch on piano to ‘Escape To The Palenque’, soloing in his unmistakable flowing Ethiopian 6/8 style. Also featured on the record are Senegalese Nuru Kane and Afro-Cuban group Yoruba Andabo. Much of the record was recorded by the Heliocentrics’ Malcolm Catto at their East London studio.

In 2008, Luzmira traveled to the Sahara Desert in the south of Algeria to participate in the Fi-sahara Festival. While there she performed with Manu Chao who introduced her to the audience as the most beautiful voice to arrive to the desert.

Family Atlantica - Manicero

Sun Ritual

acı geçiyor, acı geçiyor, acı elbette geçiyor 
acı çekmiş olmak geçmiyor.

İsmail Abi - Bu acı geçiyor mu ?

One of the amazing things about the deeply Jamaican music called Dub is its ability to act as a conduit. From its early days as stripped down versioning of popular Reggae tunes to its indoctrination into late 80 / early 90s UK Soundsystem & Dance Music culture, to its current massive mutation (with the “Step” planted firmly in its behind); Dub has shown itself to be not only a musical art form that stands strongly on its own, but also a vehicle of sorts that can transport and connect disparate musical universes. And it’s at the unique nexus of Dub and Arabic music that the Spy From Cairo sits the most comfortably. 

The Spy From Cairo aka Zeb is the kind of musician that fits perfectly in with the downtown NYC music scene – Italian by birth, Gypsy by heritage, and Brooklynite by residence, he has been closely associated with the Turntables on the Hudson scene for close to 12 years – producing dozens of albums as Zeb, the Spy From Cairo and the Organic Grooves project, as well as remixing for everyone from Baba Maal to Tosca to Billie Holliday to Novalima, steadily garnering a worldwide collective of fans and followers 

The Spy’s new album, “Arabadub” is perhaps his most realized vision of deep Middle Eastern and Jamaican sounds coalescing into something that sounds right and natural – because it was conceived and produced in just that natural way. There are no samples used on the album, and Zeb has programmed everything, as well as playing traditional Middle Eastern stringed instruments called the Oud, Chifteli and the Saz himself. Check the opener “Alladin Dub”, with its echoed out skanks, pulsing bassline, and majestic strings – and the deepness that is “Taksim Square”, complete with swirling, psychedelic accordion. Other highlights include the tense four-to-the-floor stomper “Desert Tears”, the rolling dub of “Sons of Hannibal” with it’s beautiful Middle Eastern vocal chants, the nostalgic “Egyptian Pulse” with its Steppers sound and melancholy vibes, and the dancehall vibes of “Prince Ahmed” – sounding like 3AM Kingston wrapped in a Bedouin Tent!
credits


Prince Ahmed

Zebda-The spy from Cairo