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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
2d 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
1w 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
1w 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
2w 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
3w 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
ARAB TUNES Blog
1M ago
An exploration of old music dedicated to Belly Dance. An almost mystical experience for Cosmic Belly Dancers.
01 Ihssan Al Munzer - Dou'a Al Fajer
02 Ahmed Fouad Hassan - Al Asil
03 Mohamed Asfour - Samara
04 Hassan Abou Seoud -Wahda Wa Noss
05 Hany Mehanna - Hanady
06 Unknown - Rakset El Lami ( From The Album Oriental Dances Past & Present)
07 Michel Al Massri - ‘al Ziraiya
08 Baligh Hamdi - Amira
09 Nour El Mallah - Rakset El Fadaa
10 Omar El Shariyi - Ya Sarya
11 Walid Gholmieh & Ensemble Al Anovar – Mejwez
12 Aboud Abdel Al - Ya Malikane Kalbi
13 Farid El Atr ..read more
ARAB TUNES Blog
2M ago
The Ghiwaniyya, that cultural renewal born at the beginning of the 70s in Morocco by musical groups such as Nass el Ghiwane, Jill Jilala and Lemchaheb, spread like wildfire throughout the country and meant that various musical groups would come to life.
Kenitra, a city overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in the north of the country, also gave its contribution to the revival of popular singing with the musical group called Lemkhaleb. Very little is known about them. It seems they were formed in the second half of the seventies and were led by banjo player Hassan Haddush. Both in th ..read more
ARAB TUNES Blog
3M ago
Yusor Hamed is a young Palestinian singer, musician and producer born in Tunis to a mother originally from Gaza and a father originally from Tulkarem, a Palestinian city located in the northwest of the West Bank on the slopes of the Samaria mountains.
Having moved to Gaza with her family at the age of four, her earliest memories are filled with lazy mornings on the beach and happy afternoons at her grandmother's house. Interested in music since she was a child, Yusor spends entire days following television music programs that broadcast Arabic pop, Western R'n'B and Hip Hop while ..read more
ARAB TUNES Blog
4M ago
Reem Talhami is a Palestinian singer and actress born on 6 August 1968 in Shafa 'Amr, a predominantly Arab village located in the Galilee region. For five years she studied music and singing at the "Rubin" music and dance academy in Jerusalem, graduating in 1987. For about two years she taught singing at the conservatories of Ramallah and Jerusalem.
The beginning of the 90s saw her lay the foundations for what would be the activity that would occupy most of her artistic life: singing. One of her first major works will see her collaborate with Greek pianist Sarantis Kassaras on a ..read more
ARAB TUNES Blog
5M ago
Aida Al-Sha'ir was an Egyptian singer born in Mansoura on 29 October 1940.
Raised in a family in which the interest in art and music was very high, from an early age Aida accompanied Muhammad, her older brother, to the clubs where he performed . A multi-instrumentalist and French language teacher, Muhammad supported her and encouraged her propensity towards singing by taking her to music lessons and entrusting her to composer Mahmoud Kamel who helped develop her artistic talent.
She enrolled in the American school, then moved on to the French one and began to take her first pr ..read more