| Various Artists / Rough Guide: Africa & Middle East |
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| Album: | Rough Guide: Africa & Middle East | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | 03/2007 | |
| Label: | World Music Network | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-04-01 | Pull Date: | 2007-06-03 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | 3 Jun | 27 May | 20 May | 13 May | 29 Apr | 22 Apr | 15 Apr | 8 Apr |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| Recent Airplay |
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| 1. | Thu, 21 Mar 19: | Xris Cafe Nakhil | 4. | Wed, 28 Apr 10: | Sunshine Getting Over the Full Moon Hump!!! | |
| 2. | Thu, 17 Jan 19: | Mr. Bones Hanging in the Bone Yard | 5. | Wed, 30 May 07: | chizzy Eran Mukamel (lust songs) | |
| 3. | Mon, 12 Mar 12: | MC Ceee Afro Beats | 6. | Tue, 29 May 07: | Decca At the Cafe Bohemian |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2007-04-02 | ||
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Reviewed by Sadie O., 3/12/07 Good overview of popular music from Africa and the Middle East. Only a couple of songs are the more classic, purely indigenous styles. Very broad selection – 1.2 hours of fine music! No FCCs – almost nothing in English. I like 9 and 14 best. 1. ***midtempo shuffling beat with various subtle struck instruments, gorgeous alto female vocals in Amharic, rather mysterious sound. 2. ***somewhat uptempo funk with a bit of jazzy/trance electronica. 3. **sweet, relaxed midtempo Afro-beat with talking drums and flute, lovely tenor male vocals. 4. **slow, rather dreamy and trance-y, simple but powerful guitars and piercing male vocals from one of Africa’s top stars. 5. ***falsetto male vocals intro, then rather uptempo electronic and hand drum syncopation with a bit of funky bass. 6. **bright, rather uptempo hand percussion and kora, chorus and male vocals 7. **folksy acoustic guitar, downtempo and wistful-seeming, lovely hoarse male vocals and female chorus. 8. ***hand drums and hand claps, male vocals in Arabic, a bit of flamenco guitar and percussion. 9. ****nutso midtempo electronics, thumb piano and distorted male vocals from the streets of the Congo. 10. ***solo female vocal intro for almost a minute, then midtempo syncopated dance groove. Very groovy. 11. **slow string intro, then midtempo loping hand drum syncopation with Arabian orchestration. Female vocals – classic sound, remake of 50’s Egyptian hit. 12. **midtempo Afro-Cuban cha cha from Morocco, sweet male vocals in Arabic, a bit Rai-inflected. 13. **Nomadic male call and response. Midtempo loping and shuffling groove, simple and repetitive but attractive and compelling. 14. ****slightly uptempo, rather funky electric guitar groove, female vocals in Arabic. 15. **lush synth intro, trance-y dance groove, (called “raihouse”) male vocals in Arabic, rather standard female vocals in English. Very moderno-American sounding, but with a great beat. | ||
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