Records available on Traveller Records! TNL 2013

This Time Around

Recorded and mixed by Rasmus Persson 2014, Mastered by Henrik Alsér at Svenska Grammofonstudion. To be released on the album Eter on Gikt records in Januari 2018

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Usually our focus with Habibi Funk (الترجمة العربية أسفله) is not music from the 1990s and we tend to focus on more obscure releases (not always though, e.g. Al Massrieen or Ahmed Malek are well known in their countries of origin). Cheb Hasni is an exeption to this. The music is very 1990s and he is to this day a major star, his not very active and most likely not official FB page has more then three-million likes. I know very few artists that did so many songs that I deeply love. Keep in mind Hasni was incredibly productive. In his short live he recorded around 100 albums so there is a plethora of songs to choose from and my passion goes especially towards the ones he did in the years before he got murdered. It’s rai, but it’s the type of rai sentimental that also fused the production astethic of early hip hop and house to a very unique fusion. His lyrics were often fairly explizit dealing with everything from love, sex, alcohol, divorce, a mix that made him a prime aim for the non progressive forces in Algerian society of the time.

Today marks the 23rd anniversary of his assassination by Islamists who had threatened to kill him throughout the most time of his career.  Especially since Cheb Hasni was murdered for what he stood for as a musician we feel it’s even more important to keep his legacy alive and spread his name, even amongst those who might not know him outside of the Arab world so it felt right to dedicate Habibi Funk Mix #8“ solely to him. The selection is a very personal one and might not reflect what were his most popular ones but it’s the songs I love the most...

نادرا ما نكرس اطلاقات حبيبي فنك لموسيقي التسعينات أوأغاني لمطربين تمتعوا بشهرة واسعة (باستثناء المصريين وأحمد مالك الذين يعتبروا مشهورين في بلادهم).  ولكن استثنائيا نقوم باهداء ميكس حبيبي فنك الثامن للشاب حسني برغم انه من اشهر مطربين التسعينات وتدل صفحته الرئيسية علي فيسبوك - التي يتابعها أكثر من ٣ مليون فرد - علي هذه النجومية العالمية.
 في حياته القصيرة سجل حسني كم هائل من الأغاني - فقد أطلق حوالي ١٠٠ ألبوم في حياته - 
وأفضلهم لي هم الأغاني التي انتجها قبل اغتياله بفترة قصيرة.   
تصنف أغانيه كراي ولكنه راي مميز لأنه يمزج ما بين الهيب هوب القديم وموسيقي الهاوس. 
وتناولت أغانيه مواضيع مثل الحب والجنس والخمرة والطلاق بصراحة وبدون حجب أو غموض مما جعله مستهدف رئيسي عند الطيارات الغير تقدمية في الجزائر وقتها. 

بمناسبة الذكري ال٢٣ لاغتياله من قبل الاسلاميين (الذين كانوا يهددونه بالقتل طوال فترة مهنته)
قررنا اهداء هذا الميكس للشاب حسني وحده. فاننا نري أن لا بد من تخليد ذكرته ونشر اسمه حتي خارج الوطن العربي خاصة لأنه قتل بسبب هذه الأغاني وبسبب دفاعه عن آرائه من خلال موسيقته.
هذه المختارات من الأغاني شخصية جدا وليست بالضرورة أشهر أغاني له ولكنها أغانيه المفضلة لدي.

Cover by Simone Cihlar

Habibi Funk Selection

"Habibi Funk 008 Mix" JUST CHEB HASNI (Late 1980s / Early 1990s Algerian Tapes)#hasniday

Samba E Amor.MP3

MIX 1 by Naar |

Okej

mixed, not mastered album teaser from upcoming disorder CD release: "stillness & sirens" by yokada (alex zethson, piano/composition; johan berthling, double bass; johan holmegard).  

release party at Rönnells Antikvariat, may 28th, 2018!

album teaser: yokada - stillness & sirens

Junsele

E375 | The rise of record labels and new recording technologies played an important role in the history of the Nahda (Arabic Renaissance). In Egypt and Lebanon, independent labels like Baidaphon competed with their American and European counterparts to record local singers and popular music styles in an effort to preserve Arab voices. For the first time, these singers could hear their voices played back at them, often with mixed reactions. Listen in as we explore an early twentieth-century soundscape made available thanks to a collection of over 600 Arabic 78rpm records in the Loeb Music Library at Harvard University. See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/09/arabic-records.html

Peter Laurence is Senior Curatorial Assistant for the Archive of World Music in the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University. In that role he provides intellectual access to collections through online finding guides, assists patrons and researchers in accessing recordings, prepares metadata about original recordings for digital transfer, serves as liaison with faculty and collection donors, and selects commercial audiovisual recordings for the archive.

Maryam Patton is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program. She is interested in early modern cultural exchanges, and her dissertation studies cultures of time and temporal consciousness in the Eastern Mediterranean during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Abdul Latif is a PhD Student in Columbia’s department of religion. He is currently interested in Ottoman social history, Persianate epics, and early modern representations of Islam.

Shireen Hamza is a doctoral student in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses broadly on the history of science and medicine in the Islamicate Middle Ages, especially in the Indian Ocean world.

TRACK LIST
00:00 | Al-Sitt Aminah al-Iraqiyah, Victor label, 1910
12:06 | Faraj Allah Afandi Baida, Baidaphon, 1910 
14:50 | Ibrahim Abbani, recorded in Cairo 
20:00 | Ahmed El Agami
25:30 | Andrawus Afandi Makni and Na’im Afandi Karkand
33:14 | Muhiddin Afendi Bouyoun, “Umri Alayk,” 1912 Gramaphone

CREDITS
Episode No. 375
Release Date: 3 September 2018
Recording Location: Cambridge, MA
Audio editing by Maryam Patton
Music: All audio samples provided by courtesy of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University. 
Images and bibliography courtesy of Peter Laurence available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/09/arabic-records.html.

The Early Records of Arabic Music | Peter Laurence

This is "Time Of My Life," the third full-length album of compositions by Adrian Knight, released digitally worldwide on October 31, 2011. The tracks were written, performed and recorded in 2007-2009 in Stockholm, Sweden. The record is bookended by two long piano pieces, the first one, "Abide With Me," is a take on the classic hymn, and the second one, "Liebeslied September 29 2008," is a half hour long piece originally written as a birthday gift. These works were born out of the encounter with a very special piano in a studio at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. "Border Fence" (electric guitar and loop sampler) was recorded live in November 2007 in an apartment in Gärdet, Stockholm. "Pink Pamphlet 2" stems from early 2009 and consists entirely of voice loops.

Moreover, these works are linked to each other by the particular times and places they were recorded, as well as their "private" nature (none of these tracks, with the exception of "Pink Pamphlet 2," were considered for release). 

tracklisting: 

1. Abide With Me 10:13
2. Border Fence 15:20
3. Pink Pamphlet 2 05:28
4. Liebeslied September 29 2008 29:55 

Written, produced, recorded, mixed, mastered and designed by Adrian Knight.

© (p) Pink Pamphlet 2012.

album teaser: yokada - stillness & sirens

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