Arabic Spoke

Akuphone presents « Doomsday Survival Kit », PRAED’s fourth album. This is the ultimate kit to prepare calmly for the sixth extinction! The Lebanese duo delivers a raging interpretation of the chaabi – popular Arabic music – using synthesizers, drum Machines, samples and other devices. The result is hypnotic and psychedelic, on the verge of trance. The clarinet of Paed Conca and the soaring lyricism of Raed Yassin sound like distant calls for help emerging from a world that is falling apart and slipping away.

Oregon-based Cappella Romana is a professional vocal ensemble specializing in Byzantine Chant and performing sacred music representing the historic traditions of a unified Christian experience. The traditional chants in Greek, Arabic and English found in Sun of Justice make this a holiday album like no other, with sparse melodies and resonant drones throughout.

Cappella’s Associate Music Director John Michael Boyer directs exhilarating Byzantine chants for Christmastide in Greek, Arabic, and English. Featuring Lebanon-born guest soloist, Rev’d Deacon John (Rassem) El Massih, and the release of a new CD of the program.