| Clotaire K / Lebanese |
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| Album: | Lebanese | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Clotaire K | Added: | Jun 2006 | |
| Label: | Self-Release | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-07-02 | Pull Date: | 2006-09-03 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Sep 3 | Aug 27 | Aug 20 | Aug 13 | Aug 6 | Jul 30 | Jul 23 | Jul 16 |
| Airplays: | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 26, 2013: | New World Disorder Beyrouth Ecoeuree | 4. | Feb 24, 2007: | New World Disorder Maqam, Beyrouth Ecoeuree | |
| 2. | Jan 10, 2009: | New World Disorder Ya Saryan !? | 5. | Dec 05, 2006: | Disorderly Favorites of 2006 Lubnan | |
| 3. | Oct 14, 2007: | New World Disorder Emigrate (Remix) | 6. | Aug 31, 2006: | Storytime! Flotte |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2006-06-27 | ||
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Clotaire K – Lebanese (self produced) Reviewed by Sadie O., 6/27/06 Roughly even mixture of Arabic trad/pop music and hip hop. Mostly a relaxed groove, generally with some Arabian instrumentation and singing, and raps by Clotaire in Arabic, French and English. Very unique and to me quite a beautiful sound. The raps in English are interesting for the perspective from a young Arab man, which may or may not be what we’re expecting. No FCCs (at least not in English), tracks 2 and 9 are great, others very good, but forget the skits unless you need 10 seconds of spoken Arabic for some reason... 1. 3:48 **starts with solo oud. A bit downtempo and relaxed hip hop beat, some scratching, some Arabian instrumentation. Singing by Natacha Atlas, rap in Arabic. 2. 3:39 ***starts with solo stringed instrument and street sounds, rather uptempo groove, rap in French and Arabic, female singing in Arabic. Often gorgeous. 3. 3:31 *starts with subdued street noises for almost 20 seconds, then female hip hop singing and beat, then rap in Arabic. (“fakra” is Arabic for “think”, although it sounds FCC…) 4. 0:24 two guys talking in Arabic 5. 4:08 **solo flute intro, male singing in Arabic, rap in English, midtempo hip hop beat with doumbek. 6. 0:10 one guy talking in Arabic 7. 4:16 **starts with rain noises? Then solo male singer in Arabic, rap in French, no actual beat until a minute in, then downtempo. Moody, almost trance-y. 8. 0:16 female, phone message 9. 4:32 ***drops, female singing, mysterious noises, midtempo somewhat menacing sounding riddim. Rap in English, including short recording of Anwar Sadat speaking, and in Arabic. 10. 0:21 male speaking Arabic through loudspeaker. 11. 2:30 *midtempo hip hop beat, rap in French. Occasional bits of oud or flute, otherwise not very Arabic sounding. Chorus is “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” in French. 12. 6:25 *starts with several seconds of random noises and female news announcer. Midtempo, rap in French, subtle male Arabic singing, otherwise more hip hop than Arabic. Kinda trance-y. Ends with same female news announcer in French. 13. 4:40 **starts with solo oud, slightly downtempo, rap in French. 14. 4:02 ***starts with male rap in French. Midtempo beat with crazy electronic sounds and a bit of flute and female singing. 15. 0:18 several guys talking in Arabic and laughing. 16. 8:00 ***ethereal pounded string instrument and female singing. Slightly downtempo beat. Jungle riddim comes in halfway along, a lot like Asian Dub Foundation – lots of changes, very interesting. 17. 5:35 **short spoken bit in Arabic, then solo oud, no beat. 18. 0:35 chanting in Arabic, laughter. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Maqam | 10. | Banadoora (Skit) | |||
| 2. | Beyrouth Ecoeuree | 11. | Flotte | |||
| 3. | Moolook | 12. | Le Criminel | |||
| 4. | Wahad (Skit) | 13. | Laisse Les | |||
| 5. | Ya Saryan !? | 14. | Bif Bam Boom | |||
| 6. | Bokra (Skit) | 15. | Tampooshy (Skit) | |||
| 7. | Papa | 16. | Emigrate (Remix) | |||
| 8. | Beep (Skit) | 17. | Takassim | |||
| 9. | Lubnan | 18. | Bonus Track |