New Music From Iraq on Calabash Music

Pecheurs de perles

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Pêcheurs de perles origins come from a very rich musical tradition (Persian Gulf Pearl-divers) and allow both Eastern and Western countries to meet and come together.

Rahim Alhaj

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Rahim’s music delicately combines traditional Iraqi maqams with contemporary styling and influence.

Ahmed Mukhtar

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Ahmed Mukhtar's blessed fingers fashioning shades and shapes from his instrument that most people can only dream of.

Bedouins of the Middle East

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Field recordings made in 1955 and 1960 by ethnomusicologist Deben Bhattacharya. Recorded in Bedouin camps in the desert no-man’s land between Jordan and Iraq. Communal coffee grinding and drinking ritual in the tents after sundown.

Nomadic Mix Tape - Global Hip-Hop Series

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:20:32 -0600

The Nomadic Mix Tape series is an ongoing multi volume collection featuring the illest MCs and hip-hop artists from around the globe.

Kazem Al Saher

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Kazem Al Saher is the top-selling singer in the Arab world today, both in terms of recordings and ticket sales. His music is rich with the melodies, rhythms, and complex sonic textures of Arabic classical music, but at the same time, strikingly contemporary.