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11 Mar 09 - 07:46 PM (#2586761) Subject: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: Spleen Cringe There seem to be a fair few Mudcatters below the line who are a tad, um, enthusiastic about discussing Islam. I've decided to provide 'em with a soundtrack. Be warned - some of these songs are breathtakingly beautiful. This little beauty for starters: Echoes Of Sufi Chants - Kafi Bulleh Shah - Allan Fakir And a bit more magic: Sain zahoor Ahmed - Nachna Painda Hey Heading further south: Malayalam Mappila song This one's a corker: Pukhto Biltoon & Mazari (Pakistan/Afghanistan) Heading over to Iran: Iranian ( Kurdish ) traditional folk song Regular dudes: Sufi Music, Lucknow, India This is brilliant: Afghan Sufi Ensemble - International Sufi Music Festival And finally to Morocco. If you watch just one of these clips, watch this! Oh that my local folk club was a quarter this electrifying. Best clapping ever, too: Gnawa Lila with Mustafa Bakbou and a mesmerizing Dancer Enjoy! |
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11 Mar 09 - 07:51 PM (#2586770) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: Eric the Viking Don't forget Richard Thompson and "Cat Stevens" Yousiff Ibrahim. |
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11 Mar 09 - 07:58 PM (#2586772) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: Rasener Cassius Clay |
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11 Mar 09 - 08:15 PM (#2586784) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: Spleen Cringe Muhammed Ali - We Came In Chains |
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11 Mar 09 - 09:54 PM (#2586832) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: Jack Campin A ritual of the Bektashi dervish order (which changes gear in a freaky way half way through) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BEu8ryoMok Domestic celebration of the birthday of the Blessed Ali by a group of women in Iran (nothing musically extraordinary, but it won't be what you expect) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f01JZqCTtNM The blind Turkish Alevi bard Asik Veysel with his beautiful song "My dear darling the black earth" (lots of recordings of this one) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOZfjGjmEGs Another Alevi singer, Ali Ekber Cicek, with his most famous song and its amazing saz accompaniment (I heard him sing this a few months before he died, to a big audience listening in total silence) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYEe9dfiHog A Turkish woman singer with a lament for the martyred Husein (translation provided) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFyh7nxzs6Q |
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11 Mar 09 - 10:21 PM (#2586859) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: Amos Thanks SC and JC--these are really fine examples!! A |
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12 Mar 09 - 04:06 AM (#2586948) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: Spleen Cringe Nice one, Jack! Particularly enjoyed Asik Veysel. |
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12 Mar 09 - 05:14 AM (#2586975) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: matt milton Yeah, Asik Veysel's great. If you like him, I would recommend the Azerbaijani saz player Edalat Nasibov too. He has an album called Art of the Saz. |
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12 Mar 09 - 05:30 AM (#2586981) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: GUEST,.gargoyle Thank you Mr. Spleen and Mr. Jack.
Those are some fine examples you have posted.
For a different view of the news http://www.arabnews.com frequently has articles that will appear weeks later in the New York Times or Wall Street Journal.
Sincerely. |
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12 Mar 09 - 06:56 AM (#2587038) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: Fred McCormick Thanks to Spleencringe for starting this thread. I believe strongly that understanding and enjoyment of the world's music is an important key to understanding the world's peoples, and to realising that we've got more to share with the rest of humanity than bombs and bullets. At a time when every Muslim on the planet is being hounded because of the actions of a few lunatics, it is good to remember that the music of Islam is immensely rich and varied, and for the most part extremely beautiful. To anyone who hasn't heard them already, I can thoroughly recommend Topic's reissue on thre CDs of the magnificent 6LP set, Music in the World of Islam. They're still on release and you can get them through Topic's website |
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12 Mar 09 - 09:22 AM (#2587128) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: Joe G Well said Fred - understanding and enjoying each other's culture brings us closer together. I have just been stunned by seeing the new mosque in the Little Horton area of Bradford which must be one of the finest new buildings in the country. I seek out and enjoy music from across the world (though I do have a blind spot with far eastern music I must admit!) as well as being a passionate fan of folk music from our own isles. |
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12 Mar 09 - 09:47 AM (#2587142) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: Dave the Gnome They sounded extremely good, well performed and full of eastern promise, but... I'm afraid to say that they didn't realy do much for me:-( I guess my ear may be too 'westernised' as I found quite a lot od it a bit outside my 'comfort zone'. It's funny because I realy enjoy the bits of Eastern music that various people have put into Western songs - From the Beatles Maharishi Yogi days to Stings Desert Rain (Is it called that?). I also enjoy some of the Bhangra mixes that have charted, or at least given air time on Radio 2! I suppose I just enjoy pop music too much and am not a real folkie at heart:-P Mind you, having said that, I love Highland and Northumbrian pipes, Finnish and Danish dance music and Dire Straits. So, those of you offended by my comments please feel free to scoff at my so called 'tastes' :D Cheers DeG |
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12 Mar 09 - 09:48 AM (#2587143) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: Fred McCormick Joe, I must admit to a blind spot as far as Chinese and Japanese classical music is concerned. But have you listened to any of the music of south east Asia, Bali, Java, Laos etc? Wonderful stuff. BTW. Mosques. My local council is currently closing half its libraries, and many of its other leisure services buildings. Naturally, a lot of us have become involved in the fight to keep them open. One particulerly fine building however has become the scene of opposition from a different section of the community, because of sumours that a mosque is scheduled to be built on its site. If the daft sods had bothered to check the facts they would have found that particular building is not down for closure for another five years. |
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12 Mar 09 - 09:57 AM (#2587150) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: GUEST,Scorpio At the Roskilde Festival in Denmark a couple of years ago, I was amazed by a Pakistani singer, Faiz Ali Faiz. He is continuing the tradition of Sufi singing championed by the late Fatih Nusrat Khan, and his concerts are an experience in expressionism. Check him out! |
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12 Mar 09 - 10:24 AM (#2587162) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: Mavis Enderby Great thread! I've recently been trying to learn Tabla and Dholak but I've been doing more listening than practicing! That's led me to a lot of 'muslim folk' that I wouldn't otherwise have heard. Glad there's some mention of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: here's Dam Mast Qalandar. I'll have to check out Faiz Ali Faiz too. And some more Qawwali music: Sabri brothers And Spleen - thanks for starting this thread, and especially for posting the Gnawa Lila and Mustafa Bakbou clip - I now want a gimbri too! Pete. |
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12 Mar 09 - 10:44 AM (#2587178) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: Wolfgang Beautiful music to my ears. I can hear a faint similarity to the Greek Rebetiko. Most of the links BTW go to Sufi music which is not always welcomed warmly in some understandings of Islam. And Sufism is for a minority of Sufi not restricted to Islam. Abraham Maimonides for instance was a 13th century Jew who considered himself a Sufi. Wolfgang |
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12 Mar 09 - 12:58 PM (#2587262) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: Jack Campin In Islam, some things you do with your voice are not counted as "music" at all, let alone folk music, though they are in the same modes and use the same vocal techniques as secular music. The call to prayer and Koranic recitation are the commonest ones. Try a YouTube search on "ezan" (Turkish) or "adhan"/"azan" (Arabic) for a bunch of calls to prayer, or "Quran recitation" for the other. They are common to nearly all Muslims, and if oral transmission and variation are the criteria for it, they certainly are folk music, even if none of the singers doing it would think so. This Bosnian guy is staggering: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ov9CU9bdQ There is a remarkable African tradition of rapid-fire duet Quran recitation. I can't find any YouTubes of that. |
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12 Mar 09 - 01:09 PM (#2587275) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: Azizi I'm not sure if this is what you mean by "folk music" but here is one link to an African Muslim singer and one link to an African Muslim musician. Mali - African Music Legends - Salif Keita 3 and Toumani Diabate @ Metrotech Brooklyn (kora player) |
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12 Mar 09 - 01:10 PM (#2587276) Subject: RE: Review: Muslim Folk Singers From: Jack Campin Another call to prayer with a completely different kind of voice, from the other end of the Balkans, from Nurettin Bulut at the old mosque in Edirne: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8emU4ElZNd4 |