levantine's Podcast

Dedicated to the Egyptian People and the recent revolt, this show begins with a piece by Sayed Darwish and features Mohammad Abdel wahab, Farid El-Atrash, Umm Kulthum, Asmahan, Zakaria Ahmad, Saleh Adel Hay and more... The focus is the development of Egyptian song in the early part of the 20th century.

This is the first in a series of episodes exploring the music of Egypt. What most people in the west refer to as Arabic music is actually Egyptian in origin. I begin the episode with a five minute explanation of the roots of the music, and I feature music from the beginning of the 20th century through out the rest of the episode. Get ready to travel back a hundred years in time and enjoy the music. Your host, Al-Fareed

Part 2 of a two part show on the music of Iraq

A special on the music of Iraq part 1 of 2.

Rai music of Algeria. This episode features the Great singers of Early Rai from Wahrane and includea pieces from Cheb Khaled, Cheba Zahouania, Cheba Fadela and more. The history and form of Rai

Episode10 is our final installment of five episodes of the music of fusion artist from the Arab and Islamic. This episode features fusion work from artists from Morocco. Other featured artists include Jajouka, Ornette Colman, Pharaoh Sanders, Maceo Parker, Master Gnawa musicians and more.

episode 9 of Music of the Arab and Islamic world, the fourth of five episodes, this episode features the Kronos Quartet, Bill Laswel, Algerian artits Alla and Bally Othmani,Toumani Diabate, Peter Gabriel, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Jan Gabarek and many more great fusion artists of world music

the third of five episodes to look at fusion artist from the middle East who have tastefully brought together the music of the cultures of the Arab and Islamic world and fused it with the music of the west in order to create new horizons and possibilities of what a music would sound like in our new globally interlocked world

This episode is the second part of a four part series featuring fusion music from the Arab and Islamic world. We listen to fusion music from artist such as Abed Azire, Rabih abu Khalil, Hossein Alizadeh, Hamza El Din and many more. Host Al Fareed provides detailed information about each of the artist and their music.

This week we travel to Africa for the music of Egypt and Gambia and Morocco and the Western Sahara and Mauritania (listen for the music styles ala and hilali and Nubian).

The third episode of Al-Fareed's music of the Arab and Islamic world podcasting at levantinecenter.org.

After departing from Baghdad across Asia through China and Indonisia and south through India and Iran, this podcast explores music of Yemen, Comoro Islands, Zanzibar traveling to East Africa and then West Africa.

A further exploration of the music of the Arab and Islamic world by Al-Fareed. The first week explored the development of the maqam from Baghdad and traveling through Syria, Turkey, Iran and the Turkic nations. This week's episode continues the journey through China, Pakistan, Northern India, Southeast Asia and into the Persian Gulf, along much of the fabled Silk Road.

Los Angeles-based DJ and ethnomusicologist Al-Fareed aka Alfred Madain has woven together a broad selection of contemporary tunes from the Arab/Muslim world, including countries in the Middle East and North Africa, from Morocco to Afghanistan, for Levantine Cultural Center and you, the worldwide audience!

In this first week Al-Fareed takes us on a journey throughout the Arab and Islamic world, exploring the modal system known as maqam beginning with the Baghdad court musician, Yussef Amar.

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