Music in the World of Islam: The Human Voice/Lutes

various artists compilation - Music in the World of Islam: The Human Voice/Lutes

In 1976 Tangent Records released Music in the World of Islam as a series of long-playing analogue records. With the advent of the compact disc and its attendant extended playing time we are able to present two LPs on one compact disc. The first two records in the series - The Human Voice/Lutes are presented here.
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This anthology "music in the world of Islam" is an attempt to present highlights of music found within a huge area in Africa, parts of Europe, and Asia which are today, or have been in the past, Islamic.
As it is obviously impossible to cover adequately the music of any of these countries, far less all of them, the aim has been to divide the music into groupings so that the listener can hear, compare and learn to appreciate some of the almost limitless variety of musical styles - both vocal and instrumental - which have developed in this vast area. The diversity of cultures in the Islamic world is so great that it is strange to find unifying factors in the music. But Bedouins and nomads, farmers on the banks of the Nile, or in the Hindukush Mountains of Afghanistan or the High Atlas of Morocco or the fertile valleys of Pakistan and India. Turkish fishermen on the Black Sea coast and Malay and Javanese along the East China Sea or pearl divers on the gulf which divides Arabia from Iran, as well as the inhabitants of the great and ancient cities of Damascus and Baghdad and Cairo and Fez and Istanbul, Shiraz and Samarkand, all share certain musical traits and some of these, along with specialised music of each area, can be heard on this compact disc. (from the liner notes on the back cover)

The Human Voice LP - tracks 1-14
Lutes LP - tracks 15-23

Tracklisting:

1. [uncredited artist] - Recitation of verses of the Qu'ran {2:26}
(Al-Ateuf, near Ghardela, Algeria)

2. Ismail Ali Hasan and Abdel Hamid Abdel Aziz - Dhikr (remembrance) {2:18}
(A Sufi ceremony; Fayoum Oasis, Egypt)

3. Habibola Halika - Houri {1:21}
(secular vocal music; Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran)

4. [uncredited artist] - Bedouin wedding songs {1:18}
(south of Wadi Musa, Jordan)

5. Jabr bin Husein - Ghazal, or Love Song {1:17}
(Tarif, Abu Dahbi)

6. Amir Mohammed and Baba Hakim - Gurdum Gurdum {3:16}
(love song; Daulatabad, north of Baikh, Afghanistan)

7. [uncredited artist] - Song at the feast after Ramadan {1:50}
(near Nafga, Entrea, Ethiopia)

8. Salim Alan - Haddadi {4:16}
(led by Salim Alan and a group of about twenty pearl divers; Muharraq, Bahrain)

9. Wasimxzama Khan Naseri and Nazir Ahmad - Kavali {4:37}
(a devotional song; Hyderabad, Deccan, India)

10. Dunya Yunis - Abu Zeluf {3:03}
(Beirut, Lebanon)

11. [uncredited artist] - Leader/Chorus song {2:23}
(a group of Gadabursi Somali; Jijiga, Harar Province, Ethiopia)

12. Mehein fin Baqid and Dahar fin Baqid - Radha/Hateim Atiya Khalil Sayed - Ga's {2:20}
(Sharjah, United Arab Emirates/Fayoum, Egypt)

13. Aqi Pishak - Love song {2:22}
(Aqcha, Afghanistan)

14. [uncredited artist] - Tahlil {6:18}
(sung by a Sufi group; Baghdad, Iraq)

15. Salman Shukur - Taqsim in maqam Iraq {3:30}
(Baghdad, Iraq)

16. Sultan Hamid - Taqsim in maqam Hejaz {6:04}
(Muharraq, Bahrain)

17. Aboubekr Zerga - Hausi in makam Iraq {5:02}
(Tlemcen, Algeria)

18. Hussein Ali Zodeh - Tar solo in dastgah Mahur {4:55}
(Teheran, Iran)

19. Baba Hakim - Tambur solo {4:44}
(Daulatabad, Afghanistan)

20. [uncredited artist] - Gunbri (Folk Song) {2:52}
(Foum el Ancur, Morocco)

21. Erol Sayin - Taksim in makam Nishaburek {3:29}
(Ankara, Turkey)

22. Jalal zur Fonun - Solo in dastgah af-Shari {4:19}
(Teheran, Iran)

23. Khan Mohammad, Aqi Pishak and Mohammad Omar - Wedding song (in Uzbek) {2:51}
(Aqcha, Afghanistan)

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