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No one knows about Persian cats by
The film follows two young musicians (Ashkan Kooshanejad and Negar) as they form a band and prepare to leave Iran shortly after being released from prison. The pair befriends a man named Nader (Hamed Behdad), an underground music enthusiast and producer who helps them travel around Tehran and its surrounding areas in order to meet other underground musicians possibly interested in forming a band and later leaving the country.
Bikur ha-Tizmoret The band's visit
The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel from Egypt for a cultural event. Once there, they find the expected delegation is not there to meet them. Arrangements to get to their destination of Petah Tiqva have not been taken care of either. They find their own ride and arrive instead at the remote town of Beit Hatikva. Stuck there until the next morning's bus, the band, lead by the repressed Tawfiq Zacharaya, gets help from the worldly lunch owner, Dina, who offers to put them up for the night. As the band settles in the best it can, each of the members attempts to get along with the natives in their own way. What follows is a special night of quiet happenings and confessions as the band makes its own impact on the town and the town on them.
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The Band's Visit by
(Vocal Selections). Winner of the 2018 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Original Score, and eight others, The Band's Visit is a musical adaptation of the 2007 Israeli film of the same name and features music and lyrics by David Yazbek. This folio features 11 songs with vocal lines and piano accompaniment. Songs include: Answer Me * The Beat of Your Heart * Haled's Song About Love * It Is What It Is * Itzik's Lullaby * Omar Sharif * Papi Hears the Ocean * Something Different * Soraya * Waiting * Welcome to Nowhere.
Palestina by
Book URL: https://www.areditions.com/rr/rra/a076.html Trained in Russia, Zeitlin (1884¿1930) was an accomplished composer, conductor, performer, and pedagogue. In writing Palestina, Zeitlin, as he had done during his entire career, was fulfilling the goals of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, which he joined in 1908 while still a student at the St. Petersburg Conservatory: to compose and perform works of art music on motivic material drawn from Jewish cantillation, liturgy, and folk song. In addition to employing two modes central to Jewish music and several Jewish tunes, in Palestina Zeitlin actually imitates the shofar calls heard in the synagogue before and during Rosh Hashanah and at the conclusion of Yom Kippur. This edition includes an extensive essay on the composer and on the themes and structure of Palestina, with insights into the Capitol Theatre and the role of music in picture palaces of this era.
Persian electronic music yesterday and today : 1966-2006
Mashayekhi compositions realized from 1966 to 1982 in the Netherlands at the Gaudeamus electronic studio, at the Utrecht Studio of Sonology, and in Hawthorne, N.Y. at Sonavera Studio
Choubi choubi! folk & pop sounds from Iraq by
They taught me -- Segue bezikh -- Oh mother, the handsome man tortures me -- Yumma, al hilou = Mother, here's my beauty -- Ahl al aqil = Oh, people of reason -- Title unknown (style: hecha) -- Choubi choubi -- Ya binaya goumi = Oh girl, stand up -- Front my hope -- Ala honak = Take it easy -- Title unknown (style: mawal, choubi) -- Title unknown -- Ashhad biannak hilou = I admit you are beautiful -- Walla = By God -- Palestinian -- Title unknown.
Tassili by
Tinariwen ; with various accompanying musicians.
Trance percussion masters of South Sudan by
Trance Percussion Masters Of South Sudan celebrates the joy of communal music making. The beating drums and hypnotic chants summon the ancient polyrhythms of Africa's newest nation. Surrender to Wayo's percussive musical potion with their pulsating debut album.
Sweet as broken dates: lost Somali tapes from the horn of Africa by
First compilation of its kind of recordings from Somalia before the civil war. The music was produced in the 1970s and 1980s when Somalia was under a socialist government and had no private record labels or producers. All music was only available through live performances or national radio broadcasts, so this is the first time it's being heard outside the immediate region.
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