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Music & Arts from North Africa, Middle and Near East: the past and the future, blog about arab music.
ARAB TUNES Blog
1M ago
Natik Awayez is a composer and oud player born near the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq. Raised between Amarah (a town in south-eastern Iraq) and Baghdad, he was introduced to the study of the Oud by local musicians. Interested in studying and composing, he began to attend musical events, read a lot, and above all listen a lot. With the intensification of political persecution in Iraq, he decided to move to Bulgaria in 1979 to study philosophy and deepen his knowledge of Bulgarian music.
About those years he will say: "Going to Bulgaria at a very young age was fantasti ..read more
ARAB TUNES Blog
2M ago
Dina El Wedidi is an Egyptian singer, composer, guitarist, music producer and storyteller born on October 1, 1987 in the Giza district. She studied literature and oriental languages at Cairo University where she graduated in 2008, specializing in Turkish and Persian literature.
At the age of 19, while still attending courses, she joined the theater company "El Warsha" thus discovering her passion for music. Followed by her tutor, the musician Maged Soliman, she began to explore the potential of her voice by deepening her knowledge of the traditional Egyptian heritage. A tr ..read more
ARAB TUNES Blog
2M ago
Matar Mohammed was a Syrian musician dedicated to the art of Bouzouq. Born in 1939 in Tal Kalakh, a Syrian town located near the border with the state of Lebanon, to a family of Bedouin culture, he learned the rudiments of the instrument at a young age at the explicit wish of his father.
Due to various problems he was forced to leave the family home very early, dedicating himself to various occupations (including the olive picker for five lire a day in the district of Al-Koura) and playing in the night clubs of Beirut and at village festivals and weddings both in Syria and Le ..read more
ARAB TUNES Blog
3M ago
3Phaz is an Egyptian music producer whose name began to circulate seriously on the occasion of the release of his first album in 2020. Released for the Egyptian label 100 copies and simply titled "Three Phase", this first work represented a new and powerful breath of fresh air for the club music scene. The sound proposed by 3Phaz, built largely on complex percussive patterns, very naturally incorporates both the classic elements of the most experimental club music and the sounds of chaabi, mahraganat and moulid music, generating a hybrid that is difficult to catalog in which the va ..read more
ARAB TUNES Blog
7M ago
Complex questions and tangled puzzles
A void that holds accountable mistakes made
Should I write about the existing society?
Or should I go back to the history of existence?
Where did we start? And how did we get there?
From liquid to solid
From square to triangle
From the time of the feminization of God or after the dominance of males?
The universe revolves on a chain of madness
Wars wake up and sleep on a buried answer !
Once upon a time, at the beginning of the creation theatre. The Father of the Gods appeared on this primal hill, on which the first features of life app ..read more
ARAB TUNES Blog
1y ago
Magdy Al-Husseini is an Egyptian keyboardist born in 1942 in the village of Beni Hussein located in the Governorate of Assiut in Upper Egypt.
He spent the first years of his life in his native village but later moved to Cairo due to the work commitments of his father, a professor of botany at the Faculty of Agriculture.
He came into contact with music at an early age; the musician Zakaria Ahmed, considered one of the pillars of the revival of Arab music, was in fact a friend of his father and occasional concerts in the family home were not unusual. The Tarab and the ari ..read more
ARAB TUNES Blog
1y ago
Third and final part of the DJ set held at home between March and April for friends and relatives
Set List :
Muhamad Pact - Harf al lam
Arrab & Halim - Mawood
Ismail Essalah Feat. Nabil Sansi - Jit Dhifkom
Rust - Bardak
Abd Hamed - Dabke (Tropikal Camel Edit)
Tyrvnt - Yedder (Berber Electro)
Amr Diab - Mestaghrab Leeh (Monostone Remix)
Boshoco - Hajetna (SC edit)
Ateoo & Momo Ryuk - Atlas Feat. Hassania
Sevendoors Feat. Yasmine Hamdan - Movement Of Hal (facettes Edit)
S t e p h a n o - Taha Feat. Ahmed echo
Enam - Wa Yami Feat. Salah Hammadi
Jimmy Feat M.Farag - Salamat ( Or ..read more
ARAB TUNES Blog
1y ago
A further DJ set held at home for friends and family
Set List :
Augizi & Fahim - Ahl El Maghna (Original Mix)
Soap Kills - Galbi (Remixed)
Boshoco - Warda Feat.Natacha Atlas
Massar Egbari - Mersal (A-Slam & K.A.E Remix)
Nakriz - Dalouna
Rawi Vs Kamilya Jubran - Miraat Al - Hijarah
Tyban Feat. Warda - Batwnes Beek (Extended Vocal Mix Cut)
Laroz Camel Rider feat. Rachela - Lila Lila (Keybe Remix)
S.a.l.a.h. feat. Lama Sumlaji - Rooh
Armen Miran & Hraach - Aldebaran (Dj Shamsa feat. Farah Chamma Edit)
Levant trip Feat. Reem Banna (Arab Tunes Edit)
Tamer El Derini - Gamalak ..read more
ARAB TUNES Blog
1y ago
A DJ set held at home for friends and relatives....Middle Eastern rhythms and flavors for dancing.....very good stuff
Set List :
Alf Leila Wa Leila (Jawad Benissa Remix )
Habibi (Scorpion Remix)
Acid Arab - Rachid Trip (Feat. Rachid Taha)
Deep Soul - Watra
Momo Ryuk & Khalid Elhamri - Bladi B3ida
Bab L' Bluz - Gnawa Beat (Bayaka Remix)
Nakriz - Moniety (Boshoco Acid Mix)
Boshoco - Semsem
Jugurtha - Khayyam (AsK remix)
Naamane - Fairuz Exclusive Version
Zied Gharsa - Zaama Nar Tatfachi (Wail Bouri Remix)
Yaas - Eetab
Hazem B - Erg (feat. Nidhal Yahyaoui)
Kaazan - Mu ..read more
ARAB TUNES Blog
1y ago
Ahmed Fouad Hassan was a great Egyptian musician and composer born in Cairo on 12 June 1926 in the 'Abdin neighborhood (some sources report 1928 as the year of birth).
Throughout his childhood he was subject to serious health problems, which significantly slowed down his studies. Suffering from diphtheria as a child, he underwent various surgeries that forced him to lead a rather difficult life. When, at the height of his career, they ask him what the secret of his artistic creativity is, he will mention the radio that was given to him as a child and the Egyptian musicia ..read more