Coffee Music Vol.1-3

Coffee Music Vol.1

TRACK LISTINGS

[01].Yesterday
[02].If You Leave Me Now
[03].Moon River
[04].As Time Goes By
[05].Love Is Blue
[06].For A Few Dollars More
[07].Sleepy Shores
[08].Strangers In The Night
[09].Le Reve
[10].Lime Light
[11].Taras Theme
[12].Three Coins In The Fountain
[13].Around The World In Eight Days
[14].A Professional Gun
[15].Red Roses For A Blue Lady
[16].The Days Of Wine And Roses
[17].Memories Are Made Of This
[18].Bright Eyes
[19].Lonely Shepherd
[20].A Fine Romance

Coffee Music Vol.2

TRACK LISTINGS

[01]. All Night Long
[02]. Bridge Over Thouble Water
[03]. Never On Sunday
[04]. Theme Form (A Summer Place)
[05]. Rio Bravo
[06]. A Fistful Of Dollars
[07]. Three Oclock In The Morning
[08]. Wonderland By Night
[09]. Moonlight Serenade
[10]. Steptemberwind
[11]. True Love
[12]. Baby Its Cold Outside
[13]. Tammy
[14]. What Is This Thing Called Love
[15]. Danny Boy
[16]. Spanish Eyes
[17]. Somebody Loves Me
[18]. Some Enchanted Evening
[19]. High Noon
[20]. The Man With The Harmonica

Coffee Music Vol.3

TRACK LISTINGS

[01]. Chariot Of Fire
[02]. Verde
[03]. Unchained Melody
[04]. Que Sera Sera
[05]. The Good The Bad And The Ugly
[06]. The Magnificent Seven
[07]. Sleep Walk
[08]. Isnt She Lonely
[09]. II Silencio
[10]. And The Birds Were Singing
[11]. Hi Lili Hi Lo
[12]. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
[13]. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
[14]. Laura
[15]. The World We Knew
[16]. A Froggy Day
[17]. Night And Day
[18]. The Man I Love
[19]. Dankescon
[20]. Once Upon A Time In The West

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Coffee Music Vol.1
Coffee Music Vol.2
Coffee Music Vol.3

Japanese Traditional Music [7] - Sankyoku

This is a very good CD of Sankyoku music, that being a kind of Japanese chamber music with vocals and usually at least three instruments: the koto (zither), the shamisen (kind of like a banjo), and the shakuhachi (flute). The CD tracks all feature selections that are standard classics of the Sankyoku repertoire, so this makes for a great introduction to this musical form. The blend of the different instruments is really appealing, and the vocals (which I often find a bit distracting in Japanese music) work pretty well here after a little getting used to. Another plus, track 2 has one of the all time great koto musicians, Sawai Tadao.

This CD was originally produced in Japan, so the text on the back and on the notes is bilingual (Japanese and English). The liner notes are extensive in Japanese and even include the lyrics to the vocals, but the English part is a bit skimpy. Also, the CD case comes in an attractive CD slip-box (an unusual format here in the States) that also helps protect the actual case itself from the usual wear and tear.

All in all this is fine, elegant music very well-packaged. It's too bad the series of which this is CD #7 is becoming more and more of a rarity nowadays. Get it while you can, I guess.

TRACK LISTINGS

1. Yaegoromo (Ishikawa Koto) - Yonekawa Toshiko
2. Hagi No Tsuyu (Ikuyama Kengyo) - Tadao Sawaï
3. Sho-Chiku-Bai (Mitsuhashi Koto) - Sato Chikaki,

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La musique Céleste D'Ostad Elahi

The Celestial Music Od Estad Elahi

Nur Ali Elahi (or Ostad Elahi var. Nūr ‘Alī Ilāhī, Nour Ali Elahi, Persian: نور علی الهی - استاد الهی) (September 11, 1895 - October 19, 1974) was a spiritual thinker, musician, philosopher and jurist who dedicated his life to investigating the metaphysical dimension of human beings.

The early years

Elahi was born in Jeyhounabad, a small Kurdish village near Kermanshah. His father, Hajj Nematollah (1871-1919), was a mystic and poet who was a leader of the Ahl-e Haqq and revered as a saint. From early childhood, he led an ascetic, secluded life of rigorous discipline under his father's supervision with a special focus on mysticism, music, and ethics. In addition to religious and moral instruction, he received the classical education of the time. It was during his youth, devoted to study and contemplation, that he established the basis of his philosophical and spiritual reflections.

By the time his father died in 1919, Elahi had concluded that the time for classical spirituality had come to an end, and that the quest for spiritual development could no longer take place in the tranquility of ascetic seclusion. Instead, Elahi believed that spirituality had to be practiced within the context of an active and productive life in the midst of society. Thus, at the age of twenty-four he left behind a contemplative life to test his ethical principles in the crucible of society. Eventually settling in the capital city of Tehran, he cut his long hair and beard, replaced his traditional robes with a Western-style suit, and entered the civil service.

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Ostad Elahi Playing the Tanbour
Improvisation in Bâbâ Jalili
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For Elahi, music was primarily a means of engaging in contemplation and prayer. He never performed in public and did not make any recordings of his music in a professional setting.

Elahi's music is rooted in a tradition involving the rhythmic recital and invocation of sacred texts in devotional gatherings, accompanied by various instruments such as the tanbour (an ancient lute), the ney (reed flute) and the daf (frame drum).

Elahi began playing the tanbour at the age of six and was recognized as a master of the tanbour by the age of nine. He would eventually revive this ancient art, composing over 100 original pieces that he used as the basis for his improvisations. His musical ornamentations and complex playing technique, which for the first time involved the use of all five fingers of both hands, as well as his physical modifications to the instrument itself - namely, the doubling of the higher string so as to dramatically increase its expressiveness - earned him a reputation as an innovator of this art form and a master of the tanbour.

Since the commemoration of his centennial in 1995, nine CDs of his music have been released. The bulk of the original recordings were made on basic mono tape recording equipment during the 1960s and '70's in the context of informal gatherings with family and friends. These tapes have since been digitally remastered and restored.

One of the characteristic aspects of Ostad Elahi's music was the use of improvisation, in which he would weave together pieces of diverse tempo and rhythm while maintaining a coherent whole. One such piece, Improvisations in Baba Jalili in the fourth followed by the Suite Zang-e Shotori in the second, found on the CD Destinations (Le Chant du Monde, 2008) exemplifies this aspect. Here, Elahi shifts back and forth between several different melodies and mixes the rhythm of one melody into that of another.

Ostad Elahi's tanbour playing was also known for its use of complex ornamentations as well as the density of the notes, with up to 12 notes being played per second at times. These features are apparent in Suite Sahari from the CD The Celestial Music of Ostad Elahi (Le Chant du Monde, 2004), a melody which was played at dawn to awaken dervishes for prayer.

Ostad Elahi transmitted the entirety of his repertoire for the tanbur to his youngest son, Dr. Shahrokh Elahi, who has recorded some of his father's compositions on video, demonstrating Ostad Elahi's style and technique.

History of the title "Ostad Elahi"

Born with the name "Fatollah", Nur Ali's childhood nickname was "Kuchek Ali".[32] At the age of eleven, he went through a spiritual transformation during an ascetic retreat with his father, who subsequently changed the child's name to "Sayyed Nur Ali".[33] In 1941, while working as an attorney general in Khorammabad, Nur Ali legally changed his family name to "Elahi."

After he died in 1974, his sister Malak Jân Nemati assumed responsibility for continuing his legacy. In accordance with the custom of referring to elders with deference, Malak Jân referred to her brother with the title "Hazrat Ostad" for the next twenty years as she continued explaining his teachings.

When the Organizing Committee for the commemoration of his centennial planned the 1995 commemoration events in Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, and Tehran, they had to translate the title "Hazrat-e Ostad" into Western languages. However, the literal translation of this title in English conflicted with Elahi's reputation for humility (for example, His Highness or Majesty Master Nur Ali Elahi). With the permission of his family, the Committee settled on the title "Ostad Elahi" to retain the respect intended by his sister, and to convey that he was a master musician. As a result, most books and articles written about him since 1995 have used the title "Ostad Elahi," and it is both the name and the honorific by which he is most widely known today.

TRACK LISTINGS

1. Suite Jelo Shâhi: Khân Amiri Lent/Khân Amiri Rapide/Garduna/Jelo Shâhi
2. Hymes et Suite Ey Dâvud: Melodie de Najaf/Samâ/Ey Dâwud Lent/Ey ...
3. Suite Sahari: Sahari/Gol Wa Khâr
4. Sâru Khâni

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Japanese Traditional Music [6] - Sou

TRACK LISTINGS

(01) [Japanese Traditional Music] Rokudan
(02) [Japanese Traditional Music] Midare
(03) [Japanese Traditional Music] Godan - Ginuta
(04) [Japanese Traditional Music] Chidori No Kyoku
(05) [Japanese Traditional Music] Aki No Kyoku

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Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead Symphony

Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead Symphony
FEATURING THE AUCKLAND PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA

TRACK LISTINGS

[01]. Feed Us
[02]. Blue
[03]. Sky is Over
[04]. Lie Lie Lie
[05]. Baby
[06]. Gate 21
[07]. The Charade
[08]. Honking Antelope
[09]. Saving Us
[10]. Elect the Dead
[11]. Falling Stars
[12]. Beethoven's C'''
[13]. Empty Walls

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Best Belly Dance Album in the World... Ever!

Best Belly Dance Album in the World... Ever!

The first of 2 compilation volumes of Belly Dance tracks by a selection of top Arabic and Middle Eastern artists, released by EMI/Virgin in France - and issued in the highly popular 'Best...Ever' series. Belly Dance classes have become increasingly popular in the UK in recent years.

TRACK LISTINGS

[01]. Amani fe el sharq - Mazen Zawidey
[02]. Disco el sharq - Farook Salama
[03]. Windows of the east - Ron Goodwin & his orchestra
[04]. Mirjanah - Ihsan El Munthir
[05]. Samara - Suheil Faris
[06]. Beaad - Ahmed Fouad Hassan Group
[07]. Noura - Ammar El Sharie
[08]. Ana fi entizarak - Farook Salama
[09]. Hicaz dolap - Esin Engin and orchestra
[10]. Belly Dance steps - Naseer Al Assad
[11]. Arabian Rhapsody - Omar Khairat

Best Belly Dance Album in the World... Ever! Vol. 2

Recommended in Mosaic Magazine. I really enjoyed this album; it has a good mix of styles - from big orchestral pieces to simple baladi taqsim, from flamenco-style through to funky modern tracks.

TRACK LISTINGS

[01]. Aalah (Salama Farook)
[02]. Ala Rimsh Ayounha (Ahmed Fouad Hassan Group)
[03]. Gozi (Salama Farook)
[04]. Losy (Salama Farook)
[05]. Mahgola (Salama Farook)
[06]. Heelw Wekadab (El Sharie Ammar)
[07]. El Falaha (El Sharie Ammar)
[08]. Balady (Salama Farook)
[09]. Balady Solo (Akl Jihad)
[10]. Tabla Solo (Nikd George)
[11]. Ya Maha Lem (Salama Farook)
[12]. Hawa Ya Hawa/Salamat (Medley) (Ahmed Fouad Hassan Group)

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Dalida : Éternelle..DVD

Dalida’s extraordinary life story begins in the Cairo suburbs, where she grew up in total anonymity as the young daughter of a bourgeois immigrant family. After being crowned Miss Egypt at the age of 19, Dalida went on to launch a singing career, scoring a phenomenal hit with the song "Bambino". In the course of her 30-year career Dalida became an enormous international star, ending up as the Maria Callas of the "variété" world. The immensely popular diva, who died a tragic death in 1987, has now become a cult figure for a whole new generation of fans who were not even born when Mademoiselle Bambino first rocketed to fame in the 1950’s.

Although best known as a pop singer, Dalida also appeared in a dozen movies during an entertainment career lasting just over 30 years. Born Yolande Christina Giglioti in Cairo, Egypt, in 1933, she won the title of Miss Egypt in 1954, which included a role in a movie as part of the prize. She made her first credited screen appearance in the Egyptian-made feature Sigarah Wa Kas, directed by Niazi Mostafa. At that time, Giglioti started using the stage name Delila, owing to a resemblance between her and Hedy Lamarr in the role of Delilah in the Hollywood epic Samson and Delilah. Having quickly risen as far as she could in the Egyptian film industry, she went to Paris in hopes of expanding her movie career and got a role in the feature Le Masque de Toutankhamon, directed by Marco De Gastyne. She also altered the spelling of her stage name to Dalida and it stuck. She was discovered by Bruno Coquatrix, a producer at the Olympia Theater, radio producer Lucien Morisse, and record company owner Eddie Barclay, and was transformed over the next year into a singing star -- her second single, "Bambino", sold over a million copies in France and throughout Europe during 1956. Dalida continued appearing in movies through the late '50s and early '60s, playing straight acting roles in vehicles ranging from the spy thriller Rapt Aux Deuxieme Bureau (1958) to frothy sex comedies such as Menage Italian Style (1965). Most of these were not released in America (or were given only the most limited distribution), but were major successes in Europe. Although music was the major focus of her career from the early '60s onward, she never entirely gave up movies and, in 1986, the year before her death, she returned to her native Egypt to make a film, The Sixth Day, with director Youssef Chahine, an old friend from her early career, in which she gave what critics felt was a superb performance. Dalida was a larger-than-life presence in French and European popular culture. Vocally, she was somewhere between Petula Clark and Astrud Gilberto, but her personal life was closer to that of Judy Garland, marred by divorce, the suicide of one lover and also of her ex-husband. In 1967, she was hospitalized following a suicide attempt. Twenty years later, while seemingly in the midst of another comeback, she took her own life with an overdose of barbiturates. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide

TRACK LISTINGS

[01]. Jusqu'au bout du rêve
[02]. Il venait d'avoir 18 ans
[03]. Salma Ya Salama
[04]. Pour ne pas vivre seul
[05]. Lambeth Walk
[06]. Génération 78
[07]. Les enfants du Pirée
[08]. Monday, Tuesday (laissez-moi danser)
[09]. Finie la comédie
[10]. Rio Do Brazil
[11]. Je suis toute les femmes
[12]. Tico Tico
[13]. A ma manière
[14]. Comme disait Mistinguett
[15]. Danza
[16]. Besame mucho
[17]. Je suis malade
[18]. Il faut danser reggae
[19]. Gigi L'amoroso
[20]. Le jour le plus long
[21]. Avec le temps

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T.H.Subramaniam - Hindolam

TRACK LISTINGS

(01) [T.H. Subrahmanium] Hindolam
(02) [T.H. Subrahmanium] Malkauns

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Oriental Aroma - Mixed By Roland

Oriental Aroma ~ Oriental Flavors

TRACK LISTINGS

[01]. Charbel Rouhana - 13th Of July
[02]. Ziad Rahabany - Abu Ali
[03]. Omar Khairat - Al Ayam
[04]. Ammar El Sherei - Arabesque 2
[05]. Ammar El Sherei - Arabesque
[06]. Omar Khairat - Descendants InConflict
[07]. Evanthia Reboustica - Halkidon
[08]. John Debney - Mary Goes To Jesus
[09]. Melih Kibar - Mcasay
[10]. Samir Kwefati - Mediations
[11]. Omar Khairat - Night Of Fatima Arrest
[12]. Nicos - Nihavent Oreintal
[13]. John Debney - Peter Denies Jesus
[14]. Ammar El Sherei - Rafat El Haggan 1
[15]. Ammar El Sherei - Rafat El Haggan 2
[16]. Omar Bashir - Sound Of Civilization
[17]. Omar Khairat - The Eternal River
[18]. John Debney - The Olive Garden
[19]. Mikis & VAssilis - The Pain
[20]. Evanthia Reboustica - The Railway Station
[21]. Omar Khairat - The Sorcess And The Magical Pe
[22]. Spiro Mporekis - TheLast Meeting
[23]. Omar Khairat - Women Tramps

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Hossein Alizadeh - Torkaman

Hossein Alizadeh is one of Iran's leading classical composers and musicians. A virtuosic player of the six-stringed Persian tar, four-stringed Persian sehtar and eleven-stringed Azeri tar, Alizadeh has continued to extend the musical traditions of his homeland. In addition to composing orchestral pieces such as "Riders of the Plains of Hope," "Revolt," "Hey Nava," "Torkaman," "Raz-O-Niaz" and "Song of Compassion," Alizadeh has recorded the entire "Radif," based on an interpretation by Mirza Abdullah.

Alizadeh was destined to become a musician. His mother, a Persian from Arak, and his father, an Azeri from Urmia, both loved music. In 1962, shortly after seeing his first tar in a Tehran music store, Alizadeh began taking lessons in the instrument. By his late teens, he had mastered the stringed instrument. His knowledge of music was further expanded during the childhood summers that he spent in Tabriz and Urmiya, two major cities of the Azerbaijoni region of Iran. Tuning into a radio station from Soviet Azerbaijoni, he became enchanted by Azerian music.

Following his graduation from a high school-level music conservatory, Alizadeh worked as a composer at the Center for the Intellectual Development of Children in Tehran, studied at the Center for the promotion of Classical Persian Music and attended art college. After earning a bachelor's degree in music composition and performance from the School of Music at the University of Tehran, he continued with graduate studies at the University of Fine Arts in Tehran. In the aftermath of the Islamic revolution of 1979, Alizadeh became increasingly interested in Azerian music and went to Tabriz to study with Ali Salimi.

Alizadeh began his professional musical career with the Iranian National Orchestra, rising to the position of conductor and soloist of the National Orchestra of Radio and Television of Iran. He continued to promote Persian classical music with the Aref Ensemble and the Shayda Ensemble. Alizadeh's first professional experience in Europe came when he joined the orchestra of the Bejart Ballet Company for performances of the Maurice Bejart ballet, "Gulistan." In the early 1980s, Alizadeh studied composition and musicology at the University of Berlin. Alizadeh has taught at the University of Tehran and the Tehran Music Conservatory. In the fall of 1997, he taught world music at Cal Arts in Velencia, CA. ~ Craig Harris, All Music Guide

Let me start with a look at the main peice; Torkaman. Yes that is performed by only one man, alizadeh. The power, the energy and the depth of this is absolutely exceptional, and I can remember even some ones in persia who didnt believe in alizadeh till himself played it front them in Rodaki hall! this piece is taken as its main theme from local celebration of torkamans who live in the north of iran.

TRACK LISTINGS

[01]. Daramade Rast
[02]. Zange Shotor
[03]. Chahar, Ezrab
[04]. Naghmeh
[05]. Ruhafza
[06]. Oshaq, Abuata
[07]. Chaharmezrab
[08]. Bayateh Kord
[09]. Asmar-Asmar
[10]. Foroud
[11]. Rak, Kereshmeh, Safir
[12]. Shushtari
[13]. Torkaman

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