http://afropopshop.org<img src='http://files.afropopshop.org/images/148/ashmar.jpg'>Oud player Yair Dalal wrote the music from this album as an homage to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Iraq, which have flown through Mesopotamia, ancient Babylon and today's Iraq, since time immemorial. As a Jewish musician with Iraqi roots, Dalal believes that Jewish and Arabic music owe a lot to each other. &quot;Most of the musicians in the 20th century til the fifties in Iraq were Jews. I mean the Radio Baghdad Orchestra was Jewish people.&quot; -- <a href="http://theworld.org/globalhits/2005/04/06.shtml">as quoted in BBC's The World</a>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:05:35 -0600http://yairdalal.afropopshop.org/#album_148<img src='http://files.afropopshop.org/images/164/shacharut__live_in_the_desert.jpg'>This live recording took place in a tent on the Shacharut mountain in the Arava.Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:05:35 -0600http://yairdalal.afropopshop.org/#album_164<img src='http://files.afropopshop.org/images/67839/silan.jpg'>Like the timelessness of the traditions and rhythms of Dalal's compositions, Yair Dalal and the AL OL ensemble's music is inescapably about coalescence, about shared traditions, shared instrumentation, the vastness of desert time and space and about peace.Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:05:35 -0600http://yairdalal.afropopshop.org/#album_67839<img src='http://files.afropopshop.org/images/67849/al_ol.jpg'>Live Recording from a Peace Concert in Oslo, Norway in 1994.Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:05:35 -0600http://yairdalal.afropopshop.org/#album_67849