Tag Archives: Middle Eastern Traditions

Specializing in a distinctive worldbeat hybrid of American folk, blues, as well as the rhythmically unfixed Middle Eastern traditional design referred to as taqsim, Netherlands-based No Blues contact what they enjoy “Arabicana,” and it’s really an apt term. Essentially a trio of American, Middle Eastern, and Dutch music artists, with …

From Both Ends of the planet earth is a Toronto-based music group who has klezmer music melded with jazz and R&B influences. Pianist Marilyn Lerner, saxophonist/clarinetist Sasha Boychouk, and bassist/banjo participant Daniel Koulack founded the group and had been later joined up with by vocalist David Wall structure (of Traveling …

Guitarist Sam Shalabi is a longtime fixture within the Montreal free of charge improv and experimental post-rock moments, both like a single artist so that as the leader from the Shalabi Impact. Osama Shalabi (who was simply professionally referred to as Sam a long time before Osama bin Laden produced …

b. Yosefa Dahari, 13 January 1971, Eilat, Israel. Yosefa was raised hearing the music from the Arabic Middle East and North Africa from her parents (her dad was originally from Yemen, her mom from Morocco), and she started singing while portion in the military. On one event, while stationed following …

With many fans and followers, Dariush Eghbali is among the most well-known of Iranian singers and songwriters. Dariush is most beneficial known for his warm and plaintive bass tone of voice noticed in both ballads and politics songs. He’s also a public activist who directs a recovery middle for drug …

Although he’s blind, Hassan Eraji can play oud, violin, and percussion. Morroco-born and Belgium-based Eraji spent some time working with the organizations Arabesque as well as the (now-defunct) Belcikal to make a selection of innovative noises that attract from jazz, digital, traditional, and arabic resources.

Hakim may be the king from the young offshoot of Egyptian sha’bi street-pop referred to as jeel, a guy who’s sold a lot more than six mil records in the home and the to begin the young Egyptian performers to make almost any breakthrough internationally. Delivered in 1962 in the …

A robust singer having a four-octave range, Israel’s David D’or has collected numerous Vocalist and Performer of the entire year awards in his homeland. Jumping between your worlds of pop and traditional, D’or’s albums possess all gone yellow metal or platinum in Israel with 2003’s David D’or as well as …

Blessed in 1953 in Kirklareli, a community in Thrace (the Euro place of Turkey), the multi-instrumentalist and composer Burhan Oçal was raised in a music family members. From his dad he learned a number of percussion equipment, while his mom presented him to spiritual vocal music. His primary equipment are …

Kanun participant Ara Topouzian has led many recordings of traditional Armenian music for his label, American Saving Productions, which targets Armenian and Middle Eastern music. Given birth to in Detroit, MI, Topouzian ultimately resided in Atlantic Town, where he performed the cornet while in college as well as the def …