Shabda : शब्द

The song are located on the up-tempo synthesizer base makes for a wonderful meeting between the levels of organic voices and electronic beats dance (like Deep Forest has expertly displayed on their album). Other traditional celtic instrument’s if Uillean Pipes (Irish Bag Pipes) Bag Pipes Bombarde Hautbois and a number of others also enjoy solos in the songs music is always very impressive and magnificent with the album explore the many emotions from sadness to joy.

For the first time this album I heard from their friends. He was already for a long time brought from Turkey. Choose it according to the principle”let us where more than in any of the reels, etc. Apparently the seller looked at his own view of western tourists and decided to offer him something, so too did not hurt his western ears. And that’s turned up for the most appropriate disk – Sultan Osman, who is a rather interesting symbiosis of different genres, where the advantage of without a doubt can be given to ethnic music and electronics. However, among all the other things there are in this album and some special mysticism, especially when it recitate texts monotone voice under strange rhythms, which seems like the closer, then move away. For sure many fans of not simple tunes like the Turkish album.

With FIRE DANCE, Omar Faruk Tekbilek and Brian Keane have created a unique recording that embraces many moods, at once energetic and meditative, mystical and joyous. Imbued with grace, this music transports the listener to a magical land where patterns of rich Middle Eastern traditions – are joined in music. FIRE DANCE is an adventure in transformation from which there is no turning back.

There is nothing heavy or contemplative here, which is a nice change of pace from some of this well-recorded group’s more serious endeavors. The barbat, a five double-stringed, pear-shaped lute provides a bass mandolin-like sound. The setar, the small long-necked lute with moveable frets is the treble. The rhythm is emphasized by a goblet-shaped drum, the tombak.

It is perfect background for relaxing with a novel by the great Egyptian author Naguib Mahfoux, especially the classy and attractive performance by the Takht Ensemble of Cairo. Stringed instrument lovers will particularly enjoy the astounding oud solo by Gomaa Muhammed Ali. The recording quality is fat, bringing out certain low tones in the oud and drum in a way that reaches right for the gut.

This is the most recent of Alhaj’s CD (released after his Grammy nomination for best World Music CD) and is a beautiful and unique musical story of his first trip back to Baghdad, Iraq after 13 years in exile. His contemporary compositions, rooted in traditional Iraqi rhythms and modes show a masterly ability to communicate a wide range of emotions and moods including deep connection to his mother (Closeness), sorrow for American pain and loss after 9-11 (Gray Morning), horror at a close cousin’s death in Iraq (Qassim), Compassion for all living beings modeled on Far Eastern styling, Tango rhythm and connection to a new favorite tree in a new homeland (Oak) and cowboy blues combined with Oriental structure (Baghdad, New Mexico).

Lullaby song, folk song, spiritual song… Gongs or Cong-Chieng, lithopone, 36 string zither… Traditional music has played an important role in the lives of the Vietnamese. Currently, music still occupies a considerable position in the spiritual lives of the Vietnamese.