For hundreds of years, a haunting style of folk music said to leave listeners in an ecstatic, trance-like state has flourished in Aleppo. For years, Hamam Khairy’s grandfather worked the land with his ...
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When he was growing up in Beirut, Tarek Atoui had little interest in Arabic music. He wasn’t alone; many Lebanese of his generation, myself included, tuned in to mainly American and European music. He ...
The traveling, thinking musician has been a fruitful template this year, with exciting work from Damon Albarn's Democratic Republic of Congo supergroup and Jace Clayton's Beyond Digital. The latest ...
Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum performs on November 14, 1967, at the Olympia concert hall, in Paris. | AFP Photo Stringer / AFP The great Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz compared her to a preacher.
Fotos mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Journey to Tarab Es rauscht, es knistert, ein Farbenfluss durchzieht dieses wunderliche, musikalische Spektakel, das an utopischer Verrücktheit und Liebe zum ...
For hundreds of years, a haunting style of folk music said to leave listeners in an ecstatic, trance-like state has flourished in Aleppo. For years, Hamam Khairy’s grandfather worked the land with his ...