Tag: Tel Aviv
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Shiran breathes new life into traditional Yemeni wedding song ‘Ya Banat Al Yemen’ for new album ‘Glsah Sanaanea…’ for Batov Records
Shiran delivers a contemorary redo of a classic Yemeni song, the lead single for her new album Glsah Sanaanea with Shiran, following her self-titled debut album in 2018 – an LP that saluted her cherished family home of Yemen, singing songs in both Arabic and Hebrew, from her base in Tel Aviv. Here’s the new…
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El Khat play invented instruments creating pan-Arabic braindance – second single ‘Balagh Al Achbaab’ drops ahead of November album ‘Saadia Jefferson’
El Khat are an exciting prospect and are redefining Arabic music and Yemeni culture, with Western harmonies and compositions on instruments made out of junk. The second single by El Khat – and Yemeni inventor, carpenter and music producer Eyal El Wahab – is Balagh Al Achbaab from the debut album Saadia Jefferson on Batov Records. Recorded in Eyal’s…
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‘Naz’ is debut album of Iranian singer and film star Liraz and Israeli producer Rejoicer, fresh from his Stones Throw release
Liraz is influenced by Iran’s female musical icons of the 1970s – like Googoosh and Ramesh – and her debut album Naz is as fiery and defiant. She sings in Farsi, on an album dominated lyrically by the role of women in society and musically by the bounce of hip-hop and electronica. It is produced…
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A mysterious psychedelic masterpiece: the Middle Eastern music of Moontribe is restored from tapes by Fortuna
Moontribe and their collection of deeply rich and heady music is a fantastic treasure that has been thankfully reissued by Fortuna Records. The Tel Aviv based collective will drop this essential artefact on September 28th. The music is a brew of tribal percussion, hypnotising organs and long echo ripples. African drums, hints of cumbia…
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