Not that world techno crap.

I am looking for more traditional instrumental/vocal type stuff.
Man or woman. Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Egypt?


Any thing in particular y'all could recomend would be greatly appreciated.

-glynnis

Umm Kulthum is very good. I'm not so familiar with her stuff that I can really tell you much sepcific about it, but I do like it. My girl has a few of her CD's.

Wikipedia wrote:Umm Kulthum was born in Tamay-az-Zahayra village, within under Al Senbellawein City, Ad Daqahliyah Governorate, Egypt. Following much research, the Egyptian Ministry of Information places her actual date of birth as December 31, 1904.At a young age, she showed exceptional singing talents. Her father, an Imam, taught her to recite the Qur'an, and she is said to have memorized the entire Qur'an. When she was 12 years old, her father disguised her as a young boy and entered her in a small performing troupe that he directed. At the age of 16 she was noticed by Abu El-Ala Mohamed, a modestly famous singer, and by the famous oudist Zakaria Ahmed who asked her to accompany them to Cairo. However, she waited until 1923 before accepting the invitation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_Kulthum_%28singer%29

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I have a note I put in my cell phone about a Turkish musician I heard at a kebab place in Berlin and the guy at the counter was telling me about. The note is: "Ibrahim sweet noise turkish music." I'd been meaning to look it up, and was reminded of this by your post. unfortnately my sparse notes and Google failed me, but if you want to try or anyone else responding knows what I might be referring too, it could help. I believe the title of the album translates as Sweet Noise, and the singer's last name must have been something I couldn't spell.

If you're at all interested music that uses Middle Eastern/medditeranean instruments, but is not authentic or traditional, but really kicks ass, check out the Secret Chiefs 3 and Estradashpere. They're both from California, SC3 is Trey Spruance's (guitarist for Mr. Bungle) band. Not what you're looking for, but listening to them got me interested in Middle Eastern music.

I have a comp of some old traditional stuff at home. I'll take a look at it and post what I can find.

I'm fond of these:

Le rubâb de Hérat from Afghanistan, by Mohammad Rahim Khushnawaz

Master Performers of Persian Traditional Music : Solo Tar by L. Madjd

Fire Of Passion (Kurdish Tanbur Music Of Iran) by Ali Akbar Moradi

Azerbaijani Mugam - Modal Music and Improvisation Vol. 9 by Bahram Mansurov

They are watching you right now. They don't like Merican's with an ear for anything from the Mid East.

DM wrote:They are watching you right now. They don't like Merican's with an ear for anything from the Mid East.

Thank you PRF, i try to give as much as i get.

Oh, and "Fuck you Mr. Cheney"! (in Apu accent).

DM wrote:They are watching you right now. They don't like Merican's with an ear for anything from the Mid East.

Curiously, most of the reactionary Islamic movements are against this music, too.

I've always really enjoyed Ananda Shankar's music really interesting. The compilation titled "A Life in Music: Best of the EMI Years" is a great place to start. Pretty easy to track down, and cheap for a double disc set. It's sort of a mix between traditional Indian Sitar music, and the then-new Psychedelic music of the mid to late 60's.The recordings are pretty hot too. Kinda like, funky, as well.

Oh, yeah...also, Erkin Koray's records "Elektronik Turkuler" and "2" are pretty cool as well. They say he was considered to be Turkey's answer to Hendrix, though I may disagree. No wild guitar workouts. Just some really fuzzed out, bizarre psych/rock. Great singer too.

Not "traditional" but good:
The Devil's Anvil comp is good mid eastern psych rock.

Selda from Turkey is f'ing amazing. One of her records was just reissued and is top drawer.

And for Traditional, Nonsuch just started a new world music series that has some good stuff from Eastern Africa, mid east.