Friday, 9 October 2009
Music from Lebanon (Fairuz)
Fairuz is crazy famous in the middle east. In Syria, she is the only voice you will hear on the radio from 6am until 9am, as people get ready for work. However, the songs they tend to play are more modern than the ones included here. In fact I didn't really like Fairuz at all when I was in Syria - her songs sounded garish, modern and too happy. Luckily I managed to blindly choose the right album (judging a book by its cover is always a good idea, and with this album art, I couldn't resist).
This album is Fairuz singing songs by Abed al-Wahib. They are all haunting and peaceful and just lovely. Perfect listening as I paw through legal documents in Arusha. If my internet was better I would upload the whole album, but for now I hope that these two gems will sate people's appetites.
P.S. I'm slowly learning about East African music from the people here in Tanzania, and will eventually share some great Lingala (Soukous) music from the Congo, and hopefully some good Kenyan stuff too. But as they say here, "pole pole" (slowly).
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