Arabic Poetry cd

Jon Balke - Siwan: Nahnou Houm (2017) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Nov. 10, 2017

Their ECM debut, released in 2009, won awards including the Jahrespreis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, the album of the year prize of the German record critics. Now Siwan, the international collective led by Norwegian keyboardist-composer-arranger Jon Balke, is back with Nahnou Houm, rallying its powerful instrumental forces behind a new lead singer, Mona Boutchebak from Algeria. Perceived correspondences between Arabic music, Andalusian classical music and European baroque music fired Jon Balke's imagination when he started this project a decade ago.

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Maria Morning Star - Cantigas de Santa Maria, Vol. II - The Renaissance Players (1996) {Walsingham Classics WAL8008-2} Music

Posted by ruskaval at Nov. 23, 2018

Maria Morning Star - Cantigas de Santa Maria, Vol. II - The Renaissance Players (1996) {Walsingham Classics WAL8008-2}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 315 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 158 Mb
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© 1996 Walsingham Classics | WAL 8008-2
Classical / Medieval / Early Music / 13th Century / Spanish

“This cantiga tells how King Alfonso of Castile suffered in Vitoria and had a pain so great that they thought he would die from it. They put upon him a book of the Cantigas de Santa Maria to cure him. [The King recounts :] … I didn't scream nor did I feel any pain at all, but felt well instantly…”. -Cantiga 209, Muito faz grand'erro. Thus King Alfonso X, el Sabio, tells in the first person how he was miraculously cured of a mysterious illness (now thought to have been caused by a tumour of the maxillary antrum) when the Book of Cantigas de Santa Maria made by his scribes was placed upon his frail, ailing body. In this, as in all the cantigas in the Book, Alfonso wished to make it clear to all his subjects, at every level of society, in an accessible language (the poetic Galician-Portuguese vernacular) and a persuasive medium, that divine grace was an everyday reality.

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Abisko Lights - Point of View (2019) Music

Posted by Pisulik at March 5, 2019

Abisko Lights - Point of View (2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 189 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 92 MB | 00:40:01
Jazz | Label: Fine Music

What happens when five musicians from the wild, young, dynamic Berlin music scene get together? In the best case, wonderfully flowing, organic, beguiling music. The best from many musical worlds is rounded off to pure jazz poetry by the quintet Abisko Lights founded by pianist Dirk Flatau, as the second album “Point of View” impressively proves. The band name refers to a small town in the Swedish Lapland north of the Arctic Circle, where you can follow the fascinating spectacle of the Northern Lights particularly well.

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Izhar Elias & Channa Malkin - Songs of Love and Exile (2019) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Aug. 29, 2019

The debut album of an exciting young Dutch soprano: an anthology of popular Sephardic songs completed with excerpts from a rare song collection by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

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Paul Giger - ars moriendi (2022) Music

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 26, 2022

Paul Giger - ars moriendi (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 283 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 161 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:09:06
Classical | Label: ECM Records

On ars moriendi Paul Giger looks at life’s flowing patterns, at death and renewal, as he brings together compositions by Bach and new music drawing inspiration from the work of painter Giovanni Segantini and Swiss folk traditions. The album was recorded in Maloja, where Segantini spent the last years of his life.

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Tinariwen - Kel Tinariwen (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 3, 2022

Tinariwen - Kel Tinariwen (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 36:13 minutes | 794 MB
World, Desert Blues | Label: Wedge Records, Official Digital Download

A revelatory discovery in the Tinariwen archives, Kel Tinariwen is an early cassette tape recorded in the early 90s that never received a wider release, and sheds new light on the band's already rich history. Not having yet developed the fuller band sound that they became internationally established with, Kel Tinariwen features their trademark hypnotic guitar lines and call-and-response vocals weaving in between raw drum machine rhythms and keyboard melodies that almost evoke an Arabic take on 80s synth-pop. There's distinct parallels with the sounds found on this tape and the work uncovered in recent years by cratedigger labels such as Awesome Tapes From Africa, Sahel Sounds and Sublime Frequencies.

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Jon Balke and Batagraf - Say and Play (2011) {ECM} Music

Posted by ruskaval at March 7, 2012

Jon Balke and Batagraf - Say and Play (2011) {ECM}
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© 2011 ECM Records | ECM 2245
Jazz / Modern Creative / Piano

Batagraf is a percussion think tank, a constellation of players researching the outer parameters of rhythmic music. Inspired by techniques and traditions from West African Wolof music, the group explores new polyphonic textures. The relation between language and rhythm is constantly being investigated in Batagraf, the collective centered around the collaboration between Helge Norbakken and Jon Balke. Norbakken has developed his personal approach to percussion, inspired by African drum music traditions, but also developed in new directions through collaborations with numerous artists.

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