| Various Artists / Bedouins of Middle Eas |
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| Album: | Bedouins of Middle Eas | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Feb 2005 | |
| Label: | Arc Music Inc. | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2005-03-27 | Pull Date: | 2005-05-29 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | May 29 | May 8 | Apr 24 | Apr 3 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 21, 2011: | Brownian Motion Coffee Grinding Rhythm | 4. | May 24, 2005: | At the Cafe Bohemian Coffee Grinding Rhythm | |
| 2. | Aug 14, 2010: | Music Casserole Coffee Grinding Rhythm | 5. | May 03, 2005: | At the Cafe Bohemian Coffee Grinding Rhythm | |
| 3. | May 28, 2005: | dog and pony show Bedouin Love Song | 6. | May 01, 2005: | Subcutaneous Phycomycosis Coffee Grinding Song |
| Album Review |
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| Decca Reviewed 2005-03-11 | ||
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Field recordings from the late 1950’s. The music is fascinating, mostly wailing voices backed by flute, percussion, and/or strings. Good notes about the instruments, the songs, and Bedouins. I especially liked #9 which is the sound of a wooden mortar & pestle grinding coffee (see cover). 1. Wailing vox & lute. Sounds like a young boy. *2. Sweet & light instrumental for flute/drum. *3. Uptempo, girlish voices, claps/cymbals/perc. 4. Rababa (1 stringed fiddle) & male vox. Whining, midtempo. 5. Male voice & hand claps. Bright & sort of happy *6. A fast dance w/buzzing flute/vocals. Gets even faster. Wow. 7. Male voices, call-response. Midtempo, sort of hypnotic. 8. Rather mournful, male voice w/rababa. Interesting. *9. Percussion as they grind coffee. Wonderful! 10. A love song. Male call-response w/rababa. Midtempo. 11. Another coffee grinder, w/vocals & rababa. Lively. 12. Solo pipe, then vocal in honor of the King. Relaxed. 13. Vox/pipe/claps. Midtempo & kind of happy. 14. Vox/rababa. Mostly slowish. | ||
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