Journal of Arab Music

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This is a journal where I will be sharing music from the Arab world. Of course, anyone reading is free to comment on the posts and music!

I will also put all videos in spoilers to reduce lag for anyone loading the thread.

 

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This instrumental piece by Egyptian composer Omar Khairat is highly popular in Egypt, to the point where it is used as hold music for many phones:

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[metis]

Jewish Sephardic music is quite similar, and I play it as well.

 

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A song by iconic Lebanese singer Sabah about a cycle between enjoying life as well as being happy and experiencing loneliness and distress:

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This orchestral piece is the main theme to the 2001 biopic Ayam El Sadat (The Days of Sadat).

It is one of the most evocative pieces I have heard.

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Another orchestral piece by Omar Khairat! This one is more action-themed than his previous one I posted here.

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[sun rise]

Do you have any music you care to note from the Islamic sufi tradition?

 

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Do you have any music you care to note from the Islamic sufi tradition?

I'm not familiar with Sufi music, so I don't. Do you have any recommendations for Arab Sufi music (in keeping with the topic of the thread)?

 

[sun rise]

I'm not familiar with Sufi music, so I don't. Do you have any recommendations for Arab Sufi music (in keeping with the topic of the thread)?

I'm a bit familiar with qawalli but that's not Arabic so I don't have any recommendations for you.