Andalusian Music From Tangier [Import]

Cheik Ahmed Zaitouni | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 11, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Institut du Monde Arabe
• ASIN: B000E6UZBO
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #551,567 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Instrumental Introduction

2. Blessed Be Thou, Oh Night - By He Who Has Conceived You

3. She Came To See Me - The Almond Trees Are Redolent - Oh My Companion, I See That Once Old Age...

4. Oh You Who Has Settled In My Captive Heart - Your Beauty Is Unique, You Of The Slender Waist/Oh Beauteous Star...

5. Violin Solo

6. Love For You Has Laid Me Low - Be Cautious In Your Love

7. I Thought That...

8. In The Beloved's Abode - My Body Is So Frail - I Beseech You, Fairest Of Maidens

9. May God Never Separate The Lovers

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Classical Art of Āla, August 1, 2009

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Dr. Debra Jan Bibel "World Music Explorer" (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Andalusian Music From Tangier (Audio CD)

Facing Spain is the port city of Tangier, Morocco. It is the home of one of the styles of medieval Andalusian music brought back from Moorish Spain, which is a prescribed suite of instrumentals and sung poems, often referred to as Arabo-Andalusian music. Performed here in concert, the ensemble includes artists who participated in flamenco vocalist Juan Peña Lebrijano's brilliant interaction, Encuentros, and differs from many such groups in including women vocalists, in addition to cellos. Indeed, the enlarged orchestra has two oudists, a player of the rebab, two violins, and a viola, along with percussion. The particular suite, or nuba, one of eleven in the tradition, is in mode hijaz al-kabir. There is joy in this performance and a particularly lighter, smoother style than found on other recordings from Fes and other regions. Improvisations are subtle in the form of vocal ornamations and tempo changes. My only caveat is that in this large ensemble spread across the stage there is a tendency to lose synchronicity, the groove. On the other hand, it is a live performance and we sense the community of artists and appreciative audience sharing in the delightful music.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected, October 30, 2008

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Barry Freed (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Andalusian Music From Tangier (Audio CD)

This album is not at all what I expected in that I did not detect much of a Sephardic influence in the music. Also, it was quite monotonous.