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by Zohar
Sales Rank: 945784
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$9.95
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on 9-8-2008.
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This review is from: Onethreeseven (Audio CD)
This is, hands down, the best album of traditional Middle Eastern vocals in a worldbeat setting, rivaled only by Wally Brill's The Covenant (also really good). Included in the vocalists (sampled) is the legendary Egyptian woman singer Oum Khalthoum whose peak period dates back to the 40s and 50s. The real advantage of an album like this is to bring these amazing vocals, accurately described by the group in the liner notes as "soul music" to a much wider audience. Few people, if any, would pick up a CD by Oum Khalthoum. For these guys to make this album is a powerful testament to the strength and spirituality of this music, still very much alive today. As is true of the most sophisticated worldbeat/world fusion artists, Zohar branches out to embrace sounds outside the range of the region they focus on. In the track "Head and Bones" they incorporate sampled gamelan as a melodic rhythm element in their otherwise Middle Eastern-inflected atmosphere. And percussionist Simone Haggiag plays djembe (talking drum), native to West African music, in addition to the percussion instruments characteristic of the Middle East. Well worth a listen.
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