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Zanzibara 1: A Hundred Years of Taarab in Zanzibar Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club Manufacturer: Buda Musique ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Africa | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Zanzibara 2: Golden Years of Mombasa Taarab Ethiopiques 19 Ethiopiques, Vol. 18: Ethiopiques Artists Ethiopiques, Vol. 15: Jump to Addis Ethiopiques, Vol. 12: Konso Music and Songs ASIN: B000CR7RC0 Release Date: 2006-01-10

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From Buda Musique France, the producers of the much-honored "Ethiopiques" series, this is the first installment of a projected library of Swahili-language music from the Zanzibar and Pemba Islands, which lie nestled in the Indian Ocean just off the East African nation of Tanzania, and nearby mainland localities. Curated by Werner Graebner and devoted to chronicling material dating primarily from the 1920s through the 1980s (although deserving modern items will also be archived), the albums will no doubt prove an invaluable resource but must not to be remotely mistaken for dull academic exercises. Volume One is dedicated to tarab, a sexy, swaying orchestral music with intense Arabic influences and an underlying Indian subtext, the whole warmed by the sub-Saharan gift for limpid melody. As played by the century-old Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club's consort of sweet-sour fiddles, percussion, Egyptian plucked strings, wooden flutes and zithers, the whole overlaid with sinuous male and female vocals, both solo and choral, it is the music of star-jeweled twilights, where spice-laden tropical breezes sport with slow-cresting ocean waves. --Christina Roden

Album Description

"This is a beautiful recording from Zanzibar, extremely refreshing and haunting. A very unique mixture of sounds and traditions - East Mediterranean music, Arabic music and so obviously African at the same time. Female and male vocals are superb and the choir responding to each singer is just wonderful! " - Amazon.com

The Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club was founded in 1905 following the Sultan's intention to create recreational associations on the island. The name means "brothers who love one another," and reflects the egalitarian and supportive aims of the club. The group is the oldest in Zanzibar, and has been one of the main currents in Zanzibari music throughout this century - sales of their cassettes comprise the bulk of the cassette copy-shops' trade! After the revolution in 1964, the name was changed to the Malindi Musical Club, but it has recently reverted to the original name. Swahili taarab music bears strong similarities to the classic Egyptian orchestras, with influences from India and Africa. Ikhwani Safaa's violins, ud, quanun, nai, keyboards, bass, guitar and percussion make up a sound that swells like the ocean while their celebrated vocalists - including Maulidi Mohamed and Rukia Ramadhani - lead a selection of the club's favorite classic songs. The first disc of this excellent series pays tribute to the storied Ikhwani Safaa taarab orchestra, which celebrated its centenary in 2005!

From Buda Musique France, the producers of the much-honored "Ethiopiques" series, this is the first installment of a projected library of Swahili-language music from the Zanzibar and Pemba Islands, which lie nestled in the Indian Ocean just off the East African nation of Tanzania, and nearby mainland localities. Curated by Werner Graebner and devoted to chronicling material dating primarily from the 1920s through the 1980s (although deserving modern items will also be archived), the albums will no doubt prove an invaluable resource but must not to be remotely mistaken for dull academic exercises. Volume One is dedicated to tarab, a sexy, swaying orchestral music with intense Arabic influences and an underlying Indian subtext, the whole warmed by the sub-Saharan gift for limpid melody. As played by the century-old Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club's consort of sweet-sour fiddles, percussion, Egyptian plucked strings, wooden flutes and zithers, the whole overlaid with sinuous male and female vocals, both solo and choral, it is the music of star-jeweled twilights, where spice-laden tropical breezes sport with slow-cresting ocean waves. --Christina Roden

This new collection presents Swahili popular music from the eastern coast of Africa - Lamu, Mombasa, Tanga, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and the Comoros. Volume 1 pays tribute to Ikhwani Sxafaa, Zanzibar's oldest music club, celebrating its centenary in 2005!

Customer Reviews:

Just wonderful!.......2006-02-28

This is a beautiful recording from Zanzibar, extremely refreshing and haunting. A very unique mixture of sounds and traditions. East Mediterranean music, Arabic music and so obviously African at the same time. Female and male vocals are superb and the choir responding to each singer is just wonderful! The tarab is definitely there. The sound is also extremely good.
Highly recommended!

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Taarab, Vol. 1: Music of Zanzibar Abdullah Mussa Ahmed & Seif Salim Saleh Manufacturer: Globe Style ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Africa | International | Styles | Music Tanzania | Africa | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Middle East & North Africa | Compilations | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Africa | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Zanzibar: Music of Celebration Zanzibara 2: Golden Years of Mombasa Taarab Spices of Zanzibar Zanzibara 1: A Hundred Years of Taarab in Zanzibar Zanzibara, Vol. 1: A Hundred Years of Tarab in Zanzibar ASIN: B00001R3J9 Release Date: 1999-09-24

Tracks:

1. Taksim in Hijaz Mode
2. Ulimwengu Una Visa (The Universe Has Its Own Problems)
3. Wawili Tunapendani (The Two of Us Love One Another)
4. Taqsim in Sikka Mode
5. Ua [Flower]
6. Taqsim in Nihawand Mode
7. Mpenzi Wangu Hawesi [My Lover Is Sick]
8. Nur el Nujum (Light of the Stars)
9. Shada la Maua (A Bunch of Flowers)
10. Taqsim in Sabah Mode
11. Safaa (Love)
12. Zinjibar [Zanzibar][Mix]
13. Taqsim Sikka #2/ Ratabu (Raw Date)
14. Taqsim Bayati

Product Description

1. Takisim In Hijaz Mode
2. Ulimwengu Una Visa
3. Wawili Tunapendani
4. Taksim In Sikka Mode
5. Ua
6. Taksim In Nihawand Mode
7. Mpenzi Wangu Hawesi
8. Nur El Nujum
9. Shada La Maua

Format: CD

Average customer rating: Every last note...

Percy Grainger: The Complete Piano Music Manufacturer: Nimbus Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Grainger | Grainger, Percy Aldridge | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Intermezzos | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Variations | Variations | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Lullabies & Berceuse | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Bargain Box Sets | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Bargain Box Sets | Opera & Vocal General | Opera & Vocal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Opera & Vocal General | Opera & Vocal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Similar Items: Boccherini: Clavier Quintets (Complete) Couperin: 4 Livres de pièces de clavecin [Box Set] Bartok: Complete Solo Piano Music Bach: Complete Works - 155 CD Box Set ASIN: B0000037AX Release Date: 1997-11-18

Tracks:

1. Handel In The Strand
2. Bridal Lullaby
3. English Waltz
4. Mock Morris
5. To A Nordic Princess
6. In A Nutshell-Ste: I. Arrival Platform Humlet
7. In A Nutshell-Ste: II. Gay But Wistful
8. In A Nutshell-Ste: III. Pastoral
9. In A Nutshell-Ste: IV. 'The Gum-Suckers' March
10. Peace
11. Saxon Twi-Play
12. Andante Con Moto
13. Children's March
14. The Immovable Do
15. Sailor's Song
16. Colonial Song
17. Walking Tune
18. Harvest Hymn
19. In Dahomey

Tracks:

1. b flat Pno Con (Opening)
2. Cradle-Song
3. Love Walked In
4. Second Pno Con (3rd Movt)
5. Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
6. Nimrod
7. Ramble On The Last Love-Duet
8. Chinese Melody-Beautiful Fresh Flower
9. Paraphrase On The Flower Waltz
10. Lullaby From 'Tribute To Foster'
11. American Song-The Rag-Time Girl
12. 'Blithe Bells'
13. Fugue In a
14. The Man I Love

Tracks:

1. Country Gardens
2. The Merry King
3. Molly On The Shore
4. Irish Tune From County Derry
5. Knight And Shepard's Daughter
6. The Nightingale And The Two Sisters
7. Jutish Medley
8. Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol
9. The Rival Brothers
10. Near Woodstock Town
11. Will Ye Gang To The Hielands, Lizzie Lindsay
12. The Brisk Young Sailor
13. One More Day My John (Easy Version)
14. Rimmer And Goldcastle
15. Spoon River
16. The Widow's Party
17. The Hunter In His Career
18. My Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone
19. Died For Love
20. Scotch Strathspey
21. One More Day My John (Complex Version)
22. Bristol Town
23. Hard-Hearted Barb'ra Helen
24. Mo Ninghean Dhu
25. Lisbon (Dublin Bay)
26. Stalt Vesselil
27. O Gin I Were Where Gowrie Rins
28. Shepard's Hey

Tracks:

1. Four Irish Dances: I. A March-Jig
2. Four Irish Dances: II. A Slow Dance
3. Four Irish Dances: III. The Leprechaun's Dance
4. Four Irish Dances: IV. A Reel
5. Nell
6. Apres Un Reve
7. Pno Con, First Movt
8. Tiger-Tiger
9. Air And Dance
10. Hornpipe
11. Toccata And Fugue in d
12. Lullaby From 'Tribute To Foster' (Easy Grainger)
13. Angelus Ad Virginem
14. Klavierstuck in E
15. Eastern Intermezzo
16. The Bigelow March
17. Pno Con, First Movt
18. At Twilight
19. Klavierstuck in a
20. Klavierstuck in B Flat
21. Klavierstuck in D

Tracks:

1. Children's March: 'Over The Hills And Far Away'
2. Up-Country Song (Colonial Song)
3. English Dance
4. Ye Banks And Braes O' Bonnie Doon
5. 'Spoon River'-American Folk Dance
6. Train Music
7. Zanzibar Boat-Song
8. Paganini Varations, No.12
9. Green Bushes-Passacaglia On An English Folksong
10. William Byrd's Air And Variations For The Virginals 'The Carman's Whistle'
11. 'A Dance Rhapsody'
12. Girl Crazy: Embraceable You
13. The Warriors-Music To An Imaginary Ballet

Customer Reviews:

Every last note..........2006-06-14

A super budget 5 CD collection of all of Grainger's Piano music.
Every last note!
The shipping alone would be $17.00+ for the 5 individual Cds.
Englishman Martin Jones plays these as if he wrote them. He is thoroughly inside this music.
I think his best work to date.
He is joined on CD #5 by Richard Mcmahon and Phillip Martin. Where they rollick in various combos and trios on 1, 2 and 3 pianos. This is exhilerating. Especially on an truly uplifting version of Green Bushes.
The entire set is strongly idiomatic and given a clear, crisp, warm and spacious recording. FIRST CLASS sound.
There are too many highlights to single out, but the In A Nutshell Suite and Green Bushes are especially GOOD!
There is not a bad note or "vibe" on any of these CDs.
Highly recommended for Granger fans and fans of English Piano Music.

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Zanzibar ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Miracles 3 Trios Bakida E_L_B Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix ASIN: B000GCFAAM Release Date: 2006-10-31

Average customer rating: great music

Spices of Zanzibar Culture Music Club Manufacturer: Network Germany ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Africa | International | Styles | Music Tanzania | Africa | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Africa | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Rough Guide to the Music of Tanzania Savane ASIN: B00000GV6D Release Date: 1998-12-10

Tracks:

1. Bashraf Salama
2. Mapenzi Matamu
3. Nguzo Mbovu
4. Unalo
5. Bashraf Chaguo
6. Umbo Lango Dawa
7. Hata Nawe Useme
8. Sishituki
9. Haya Maumbile Yangu

Customer Reviews:

great music.......2002-12-17

I was in Zanzibar in the summer of 2002 listening to the rehearsal at the Cultural music club. Taarab is wonderful music, and the team is so talented. I came back and orderred the CD promptly. It is a mix of Arabian, indian and african music.. quite melodious..

Average customer rating: On the Road to Musical Bliss

Hit the Road With Bing and Bob: From Bali to Zanzibar Bing Crosby , Bob Hope , and Dorothy Lamour Manufacturer: Jasmine Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Similar Items: Road to Rio The Road to Hong Kong It's Easy to Remember On the Road With Bob Hope and Bing Crosby Collection (Road to Singapore/Road to Zanzibar/Road to Morocco/Road to Utopia) Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Four ASIN: B00008YGW4 Release Date: 2003-05-06

Tracks:

1. Introduction [From Road to Singapore] - Bing Crosby
2. Captain Custard [From Road to Singapore] - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope
3. Moon and the Willow Tree [From Road to Singapore] - Dorothy Lamour
4. Sweet Potato Piper [From Road to Singapore] - Bing Crosby
5. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny [From Road to Singapore] - Jerry Colonna
6. Too Romantic [From Road to Singapore] - Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour
7. Too Romantic [From Road to Singapore] - Bing Crosby
8. Finale [From Road to Singapore] - Bing Crosby
9. Introduction/You Lucky People, You [From Road to Zanzibar] - Bing Crosby
10. African Etude [From Road to Zanzibar] - Bing Crosby, Chorus
11. You're Dangerous [From Road to Zanzibar] - Dorothy Lamour
12. It's Always You [From Road to Zanzibar] - Bing Crosby
13. It's Always You [From Road to Zanzibar] - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
14. Finale [From Road to Zanzibar] - Bing Crosby
15. Introduction [From Road to Morocco] - Bing Crosby
16. Road to Morocco [From Road to Morocco] - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope
17. Ain't Got a Dime to My Name (Ho-Hum) [From Road to Morocco] - Bing Crosby
18. Constantly [From Road to Morocco] - Dorothy Lamour
19. Moonlight Becomes You [From Road to Morocco] - Bing Crosby
20. Moonlight Becomes You [From Road to Morocco] - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
21. Finale [From Road to Morocco] - Bing Crosby

Tracks:

1. Introduction [From Road to Utopia] - Bing Crosby
2. Goodtime Charlie [From Road to Utopia] - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope
3. It's Anybody's Spring [From Road to Utopia] - Bing Crosby
4. Personality [From Road to Utopia] - Dorothy Lamour
5. Welcome to My Dreams [From Road to Utopia] - Bing Crosby
6. Put It There Pal [From Road to Utopia] - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope
7. Would You? [From Road to Utopia] - Dorothy Lamour
8. Welcome to My Dreams [From Road to Utopia] - Bing Crosby
9. Introduction [From Road to Rio] - Bing Crosby
10. Apalachicola, Fla. [Incorporating Swanee River/Carry Me Back to ...] - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope
11. But Beautiful [From Road to Rio] - Bing Crosby
12. You Don't Have to Know the Language [From Road to Rio] - The Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby
13. Experience [From Road to Rio] - Dorothy Lamour
14. Batuque Nio Morro [From Road to Rio] - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope
15. Finale [From Road to Rio] - Bing Crosby
16. Introduction [From Road to Bali] - Bing Crosby
17. Chicago Style [From Road to Bali] - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope
18. Whiffenpoof Song [From Road to Bali] - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope
19. Moonflowers [From "Road to Bali"] - Dorothy Lamour
20. Hoot Mon [From Road to Bali] - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope
21. To See You Is to Love You [From Road to Bali] - Bing Crosby
22. Merry-Go-Run-Around [From Road to Bali] - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
23. Moonflowers [From "Road to Bali"] - Dorothy Lamour
24. Finale [From Road to Bali] - Bing Crosby

Customer Reviews:

On the Road to Musical Bliss.......2007-07-19

This is an excellent cd for all fans of the Road Movies. Even if you are not familiar with the films, there are many wonderful songs to enjoy. Fortunately, the films are all available in excellent dvd editions.

Average customer rating: Absolutely Amazing "The Perfect Belly Dance Music."

40 Days and 1001 Nights Manufacturer: Tamalyn Dallal ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items: Bellydance Superstars, Vol. 4 The Bellydancers of Cairo Desert Roses, Vol. 4 The Heartbeat of Bellydance: Rhythms & Belly Dance combinations for Drum Solos Bellydance: East Coast Tribal - Basics, Combinations & Strength Workout DVD ASIN: B000FZE3R6 Release Date: 2006-05-25

Tracks:

1. Safaa, 3:01
2. Ifkar, 6:10
3. Kucheza, 6:20
4. Kidumbak, (Improvised drum solo and finale) 4:36
5. Princess Salme (Originally titled Lishalo) 9:51
6. 40 Days (Originally titled Pendo la Moyoni)
7. 1001 Nights (Originally titled Umetoka Kwangu Kwa Ujeuri)

Product Description

While working on the book and film project, "40 Days and 1001 Nights", in which internationally famed bellydancer, Tamalyn Dallal lives in five Islamic countries, writes and films her experiences, she was in Egypt's Siwa Oasis. A Bedouin man asked "Would you like to hear the music from Zanzibar?". He played "Ifkhar", and she fell in love...with the music. That song inspired her journey to Zanzibar, an island off the coast of Africa that used to be part of the Omani Sultanate. "Taarab" is the most popular music of Zanzibar. It began near the turn of the century when the sultan sent musicians to Egypt to study music with the great masters. A unique style emerged, gracefully blending classical Egyptian, East African, and even Cuban sounds. "Taarab" means "Being transported by music". "Bashraf" are instrumental songs also played in Zanzibar. This style originated in Turkey, lives on throughout the Arab world, and Zanzibaris gave it a whole new meaning. On her first day in Zanzibar, a young man approached and asked, what are you looking for? She replied "Taarab".She was led up an old staircase, to the Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club, that was formed 101 years ago, and today, it is like the "Buena Vista Social Club" of Zanzibar. Ikhwani Safaa are the creators of her favorite song "Ifkhar", and the only people in the world who play it. Ms. Dallal and Ikhwani Safaa collaborated on this cd, using Bashraf, and adapting Taarab music to make the perfect, most intense and heartfelt bellydance music on the market. If you like the classic sound of Egypt's "Golden Age", coupled with romanicism of old Havana, with depth and complexity, and no synthesizers, you will love this cd.

Customer Reviews:

Absolutely Amazing.......2007-01-18

The music brings you back in time . The music is pure and if you know the story of how this CD was made, u would love it even more. It is music to your ears!

"The Perfect Belly Dance Music.".......2006-08-23

Arranged for belly dance performances, this CD is a real find not only for dancers but for any World Music enthusiast. It presents new and traditional compositions from the Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club of Zanzibar, a band that was founded in 1905 and has been playing ever since, passing its music along from each generation to the next. In Zanzibar, its CDs outsell all other music albums combined, though they and their music are virtually unknown beyond the island's shores. The population of Zanzibar, an autonomous island state that is part of Tanzania, is made up of Swahili-speaking Islamic East Africans, and their traditional music, called taarab, is a unique blend of Egyptian-Arabic melodies and instrumentation with the driving rhythms of equatorial Africa and Swahili lyrics. Tamalyn Dallal, the CD's producer, is one of America's top belly dancers and a former Miss World of Belly Dance. She left Florida's South Beach scene a couple of years back after about 25 years as a performer, leader of an internationally known dance company and director of South Beach's MidEastern Dance Exchange studio, to embark on a solo journey of explore through the most remote parts of the Islamic world, teaching, studying regional dance and music styles and gathering material for an ambitious multimedia project - videos, recordings and a planned book. Since she left, many of us who knew her have been following her adventures via the blogosphere. In the liner notes to this CD, she describes how, in Malindi, Zanzibar, she followed a young guide into a back alley and up a wooden staircase to a rooftop. "This is Ikhwani Safaa," he told her. "You should come back in the night." She did, spent evening after evening at the club, and realized, "This is the perfect belly dance music." And Dallal knows what she's talking about, as this CD proves.

Average customer rating:

Zanzibar: Music of Celebration Various Artists Manufacturer: Topic Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Tanzania | Africa | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Compilations | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Falak: The Voice of Destiny - Traditional, Popular and Symphonic Music of Tajikistan ASIN: B000052055 Release Date: 2001-02-13

Tracks:

1. Taarab. Bashraf: Dhikrayat - Culture Music Club/Akhwani Safaa
2. Taarab: Mwambieni - Culture Music Club
3. Indian Taarab: Prayer - Chaganlal Keshavji Pithadia
4. Indian Taarab: Nakupa Salamu (I Give You My Greetings) - Chaganlal Keshavji Pithadia
5. Taarab Ya Wanawake: Na Mnikome - Mkongwe Bakari/Maulidi Haji Mkadau
6. Maulidi. Kasida - Kilimani Madarasa
7. Maulidi. Recitation From The Koran - Sheikh Othuma Rahman
8. Kidumbak - Rashid Makame/Maulidi Haji Mkadau

Average customer rating: Major Surprise! An unlikely gem

The Rough Guide to the Music of the Indian Ocean Various Artists Manufacturer: World Music Network ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Madagascar | Africa | International | Styles | Music India | India & Pakistan | International | Styles | Music General | India & Pakistan | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Rough Guide to the Music of the Himalayas The Rough Guide to the Music of Egypt Rough Guide to Marrabenta Mozambique The Rough Guide to the Music of Indonesia The Rough Guide to the Music of the Sahara ASIN: B00006IIXN Release Date: 2002-10-14

Tracks:

1. Koba (Franglais Mix) - Tarika
2. Al Li La (Sega) - Denis Azor
3. Bayoun - Danyel Ward
4. Maria - Feo-Gasy
5. Sak La Point - Francoise Guimbert
6. Zaza Mitomany - Ricky Randimbiarison
7. Wacha Yakufike - Culture Musical Club
8. Oh! La - M'Toro Chamou Et Les Watoro
9. Neni Bab - Jean-Noel
10. Ti Kone Mi Yinm Sa Baba - Baster
11. Sense - Kaya
12. Polka - Seychelles String Band
13. Pa Bezoin Zot' La Per - Tam-Tam Des Cools
14. Lang La - Rene Lacaille & Bob Brozman
15. Anmen Mwan Dan Lakour - Sychelles All Stars
16. Dzinyo - Belle Lumiere
17. Mo Mari O - Kaskavel
18. Mamandrako - Lego

Customer Reviews:

Major Surprise!.......2003-08-26

i didn't really know what to expect from this cd when i bought it, except that i really like the rough guide series, and i could be reimbursed for it (i work in a travel store). an easy risk. what a shock when i listened to it! from the first track i knew it was going to be special. the influences are just fantastic, there doesn't seem to be any one major category to place it in. Warm, jazzy, afro-cuban, bold, all across the board. i would definitely recommend this. needless to say it never made it to my work, this one's a keeper...

An unlikely gem.......2003-03-29

Well the Rough Guide compilers have done it again...for those of you familiar with the Rough Guide series and who are devoted fans, I don't have to convince you of the incomparable quality of these compilations.

For all the rest of you, this CD will prove my point. It captures forms of music from the Indian Ocean which are little known in the West, and is real treat, combining lilting and highly distinctive melodies with wonderful rocking rhythms evoking the Indian Ocean waves, steeped in history (as the jacket notes point out) from thousands of years of ships and cultures crisscrossing its waters.

On this CD, you'll find the sweet melodies of Malagasy country music, soulful subtle blues of the Reunion Islands, Arabic spice from Zanzibar, Mauritian reggae, Seychelles polkas and folk/electronica fusion from the Comoros Islands. Sounds intriguing? Just wait until you hear it.

Personal favorites include the magnificent opening track "Koba" from Madagascar, "Sak la Point" from La Reunion, "Sense" from Mauritius and the pounding upbeat closing track "Mamandrako".

If you're a jaded world music listener who thinks they've heard it all, then this CD is an absolute must to revive your faith in the beauty of music; really, it's a must for just about anyone.

Average customer rating:

Zanzibara, Vol. 1: A Hundred Years of Tarab in Zanzibar Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club Manufacturer: Buda Musique ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Zanzibara 2: Golden Years of Mombasa Taarab Watina Orientation ASIN: B000B6GFFW Release Date: 2006-01-10

Tracks:

1. Vingaravyo Vyote Si Dhahabu
2. Cheo Chako
3. Hofu Yako Iondoe
4. Waache Waseme
5. Zinduna
6. Mpenzi Wangu Hawezi
7. Pendo Kitu Cha Hiyari
8. Naomba Kwako Bibiye

Album Description

"Certainly on this disc, old is gold." -SONGLINES

Pays tribute to Ikhwani Safaa, one of Zanzibar's most storied taarab orchestras, which celebrated its centenary in 2005! Recently recorded with Taj Mahal (as the Zanzibar Culture Musical Club) on a new release. Swahili taarab music bears strong similarities to the classic Egyptian orchestras of the Umm Kulthum era, with influences from India and Africa. Ikhwani Safaa's violins, ud, quanun, nai, keyboards, bass, guitar and percussion make up a sound that swells like the ocean while their celebrated vocalists - including Maulidi Mohamed and Rukia Ramadhani - lead a selection of the club's favorite classic songs.

Jazz Music:

1. A Jazz Collection
2. A Night at the Vanguard [Live]
3. Alone in San Francisco
4. Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud [Import]
5. At Basin Street [Import]
6. At the Piano
7. Aural Karate
8. Ballads
9. Best of Afrique [Import]
10. Bird at the Hi-Hat [Live]

Jazz Music

jazz music