Saturday, July 2, 2011

Music from Yemen Arabia • Samar


Music from Yemen Arabia 
• Samar
Lyrichord - LLST 7284



Side A

A1 Leish Teguig 5'20
A2 Al Sabah 6'55
A3 Keef Faish 11'15

Side B

B1 A'Zaffer 21'30




Hassan al Zabeede, ud - track A1, A3
Salim Ibrahim, derbooga - track A1, A3

In the evening, Yemeni friends gather to talk, listen to music, smoke tobacco, chew the narcotic leaf quat and drink scented water and ginger spiced coffee. They call this time Samar, the “delicious time”, “luxury time”, “the time when happiness becomes longer”.
North Yemen lies in the southwest corner of the Arabian peninsula facing the Red Sea. Apart from the humid coastal plain called the Tihama, it is a mountainous country with plateaux ranging from 4,000 to 9,000 feet. About ninety percent of the population are agriculturalists growing coffee, the narcotic quat, grain, fruit, and vegetables. Mountain Yemen was the site of the ancient civilizations of the Minaeans, Sabaeans, and Himyarites. The Queen of Sheba or Saba came from Yemen. Yemen adopted the Islamic religion in the 7th century AD. In the north there are the Zeidi Shia-Muslims, and in the south and the Tihama the Shafei Sunni-Muslims. North Yemeni society is almost entirely tribal and many of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the country are tribal leaders.



Mohammed al Kawkabani, qanun - track A3, B1
Saad al Kawkabani, ud - track A3, B1




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11 comments:

arvind said...

Beautiful music! Thanks, dear bo!

Anonymous said...

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Opslin

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Ustad Mushtaq Hussain Khan - Great Master Great Music
EMI-His Masters Voice - ECLP-2608 - P.1980

Would love to hear that one!

Thank You

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