Zanzibar [Import]

Track Listings
1. O Som de Sapatos    
2. 16 (Para Onde Levas O Yeu Navio)    
3. Morrer Em Zanzibar    
4. Noves Fora (Uma História Por Contar)    
5. O Convidado    
6. Mar Me Quer    
7. Uma Só Voz de Inumeráveis Bocas?    
8. Morna de Mim    
9. Clandestino (Cá E La)    
10. Ainda Há Caracóis    
11. Sem Abrigo (Nas Cidades de Ninguém)    
12. Caruma    
13. Paragem No Deserto    
14. Palavras de Xadrez    

Zanzibar, Music, Joao Afonso, Jazz
Zanzibara 1: A Hundred Years of Taarab in Zanzibar
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  • Just wonderful!
 Zanzibara 1: A Hundred Years of Taarab in Zanzibar
Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club
Manufacturer: Buda Musique
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CR7RC0
Release Date: 2006-01-10

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From Buda Musique France, the producers of the much-honored "Ethiopiques" series, this is the first installment of a projected library of Swahili-language music from the Zanzibar and Pemba Islands, which lie nestled in the Indian Ocean just off the East African nation of Tanzania, and nearby mainland localities. Curated by Werner Graebner and devoted to chronicling material dating primarily from the 1920s through the 1980s (although deserving modern items will also be archived), the albums will no doubt prove an invaluable resource but must not to be remotely mistaken for dull academic exercises. Volume One is dedicated to tarab, a sexy, swaying orchestral music with intense Arabic influences and an underlying Indian subtext, the whole warmed by the sub-Saharan gift for limpid melody. As played by the century-old Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club's consort of sweet-sour fiddles, percussion, Egyptian plucked strings, wooden flutes and zithers, the whole overlaid with sinuous male and female vocals, both solo and choral, it is the music of star-jeweled twilights, where spice-laden tropical breezes sport with slow-cresting ocean waves. --Christina Roden

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"This is a beautiful recording from Zanzibar, extremely refreshing and haunting. A very unique mixture of sounds and traditions - East Mediterranean music, Arabic music and so obviously African at the same time. Female and male vocals are superb and the choir responding to each singer is just wonderful! " - Amazon.com

The Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club was founded in 1905 following the Sultan's intention to create recreational associations on the island. The name means "brothers who love one another," and reflects the egalitarian and supportive aims of the club. The group is the oldest in Zanzibar, and has been one of the main currents in Zanzibari music throughout this century - sales of their cassettes comprise the bulk of the cassette copy-shops' trade! After the revolution in 1964, the name was changed to the Malindi Musical Club, but it has recently reverted to the original name. Swahili taarab music bears strong similarities to the classic Egyptian orchestras, with influences from India and Africa. Ikhwani Safaa's violins, ud, quanun, nai, keyboards, bass, guitar and percussion make up a sound that swells like the ocean while their celebrated vocalists - including Maulidi Mohamed and Rukia Ramadhani - lead a selection of the club's favorite classic songs. The first disc of this excellent series pays tribute to the storied Ikhwani Safaa taarab orchestra, which celebrated its centenary in 2005!

From Buda Musique France, the producers of the much-honored "Ethiopiques" series, this is the first installment of a projected library of Swahili-language music from the Zanzibar and Pemba Islands, which lie nestled in the Indian Ocean just off the East African nation of Tanzania, and nearby mainland localities. Curated by Werner Graebner and devoted to chronicling material dating primarily from the 1920s through the 1980s (although deserving modern items will also be archived), the albums will no doubt prove an invaluable resource but must not to be remotely mistaken for dull academic exercises. Volume One is dedicated to tarab, a sexy, swaying orchestral music with intense Arabic influences and an underlying Indian subtext, the whole warmed by the sub-Saharan gift for limpid melody. As played by the century-old Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club's consort of sweet-sour fiddles, percussion, Egyptian plucked strings, wooden flutes and zithers, the whole overlaid with sinuous male and female vocals, both solo and choral, it is the music of star-jeweled twilights, where spice-laden tropical breezes sport with slow-cresting ocean waves. --Christina Roden

This new collection presents Swahili popular music from the eastern coast of Africa - Lamu, Mombasa, Tanga, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and the Comoros. Volume 1 pays tribute to Ikhwani Sxafaa, Zanzibar's oldest music club, celebrating its centenary in 2005!

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Just wonderful!.......2006-02-28

This is a beautiful recording from Zanzibar, extremely refreshing and haunting. A very unique mixture of sounds and traditions. East Mediterranean music, Arabic music and so obviously African at the same time. Female and male vocals are superb and the choir responding to each singer is just wonderful! The tarab is definitely there. The sound is also extremely good.
Highly recommended!
Percy Grainger: The Complete Piano Music
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  • Every last note...
 Percy Grainger: The Complete Piano Music

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Tracks:

  1. Handel In The Strand
  2. Bridal Lullaby
  3. English Waltz
  4. Mock Morris
  5. To A Nordic Princess
  6. In A Nutshell-Ste: I. Arrival Platform Humlet
  7. In A Nutshell-Ste: II. Gay But Wistful
  8. In A Nutshell-Ste: III. Pastoral
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  9. Paraphrase On The Flower Waltz
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  11. American Song-The Rag-Time Girl
  12. 'Blithe Bells'
  13. Fugue In a
  14. The Man I Love

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  2. The Merry King
  3. Molly On The Shore
  4. Irish Tune From County Derry
  5. Knight And Shepard's Daughter
  6. The Nightingale And The Two Sisters
  7. Jutish Medley
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  10. Near Woodstock Town
  11. Will Ye Gang To The Hielands, Lizzie Lindsay
  12. The Brisk Young Sailor
  13. One More Day My John (Easy Version)
  14. Rimmer And Goldcastle
  15. Spoon River
  16. The Widow's Party
  17. The Hunter In His Career
  18. My Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone
  19. Died For Love
  20. Scotch Strathspey
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  22. Bristol Town
  23. Hard-Hearted Barb'ra Helen
  24. Mo Ninghean Dhu
  25. Lisbon (Dublin Bay)
  26. Stalt Vesselil
  27. O Gin I Were Where Gowrie Rins
  28. Shepard's Hey

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  3. Four Irish Dances: III. The Leprechaun's Dance
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  5. Nell
  6. Apres Un Reve
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  8. Tiger-Tiger
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  20. Klavierstuck in B Flat
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5 out of 5 stars Every last note..........2006-06-14

A super budget 5 CD collection of all of Grainger's Piano music.
Every last note!
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The entire set is strongly idiomatic and given a clear, crisp, warm and spacious recording. FIRST CLASS sound.
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Hit the Road With Bing and Bob: From Bali to Zanzibar
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    		Hit the Road With Bing and Bob: From Bali to Zanzibar
    Bing Crosby , Bob Hope , and Dorothy Lamour
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    ASIN: B00008YGW4
    Release Date: 2003-05-06

    Tracks:

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    20. Moonlight Becomes You [From Road to Morocco] - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
    21. Finale [From Road to Morocco] - Bing Crosby

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    40 Days and 1001 Nights
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    • Absolutely Amazing
    • "The Perfect Belly Dance Music."
    		 40 Days and 1001 Nights

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    Product Description

    While working on the book and film project, "40 Days and 1001 Nights", in which internationally famed bellydancer, Tamalyn Dallal lives in five Islamic countries, writes and films her experiences, she was in Egypt's Siwa Oasis. A Bedouin man asked "Would you like to hear the music from Zanzibar?". He played "Ifkhar", and she fell in love...with the music. That song inspired her journey to Zanzibar, an island off the coast of Africa that used to be part of the Omani Sultanate. "Taarab" is the most popular music of Zanzibar. It began near the turn of the century when the sultan sent musicians to Egypt to study music with the great masters. A unique style emerged, gracefully blending classical Egyptian, East African, and even Cuban sounds. "Taarab" means "Being transported by music". "Bashraf" are instrumental songs also played in Zanzibar. This style originated in Turkey, lives on throughout the Arab world, and Zanzibaris gave it a whole new meaning. On her first day in Zanzibar, a young man approached and asked, what are you looking for? She replied "Taarab".She was led up an old staircase, to the Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club, that was formed 101 years ago, and today, it is like the "Buena Vista Social Club" of Zanzibar. Ikhwani Safaa are the creators of her favorite song "Ifkhar", and the only people in the world who play it. Ms. Dallal and Ikhwani Safaa collaborated on this cd, using Bashraf, and adapting Taarab music to make the perfect, most intense and heartfelt bellydance music on the market. If you like the classic sound of Egypt's "Golden Age", coupled with romanicism of old Havana, with depth and complexity, and no synthesizers, you will love this cd.

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    5 out of 5 stars Absolutely Amazing.......2007-01-18

    The music brings you back in time . The music is pure and if you know the story of how this CD was made, u would love it even more. It is music to your ears!

    5 out of 5 stars "The Perfect Belly Dance Music.".......2006-08-23

    Arranged for belly dance performances, this CD is a real find not only for dancers but for any World Music enthusiast. It presents new and traditional compositions from the Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club of Zanzibar, a band that was founded in 1905 and has been playing ever since, passing its music along from each generation to the next. In Zanzibar, its CDs outsell all other music albums combined, though they and their music are virtually unknown beyond the island's shores. The population of Zanzibar, an autonomous island state that is part of Tanzania, is made up of Swahili-speaking Islamic East Africans, and their traditional music, called taarab, is a unique blend of Egyptian-Arabic melodies and instrumentation with the driving rhythms of equatorial Africa and Swahili lyrics. Tamalyn Dallal, the CD's producer, is one of America's top belly dancers and a former Miss World of Belly Dance. She left Florida's South Beach scene a couple of years back after about 25 years as a performer, leader of an internationally known dance company and director of South Beach's MidEastern Dance Exchange studio, to embark on a solo journey of explore through the most remote parts of the Islamic world, teaching, studying regional dance and music styles and gathering material for an ambitious multimedia project - videos, recordings and a planned book. Since she left, many of us who knew her have been following her adventures via the blogosphere. In the liner notes to this CD, she describes how, in Malindi, Zanzibar, she followed a young guide into a back alley and up a wooden staircase to a rooftop. "This is Ikhwani Safaa," he told her. "You should come back in the night." She did, spent evening after evening at the club, and realized, "This is the perfect belly dance music." And Dallal knows what she's talking about, as this CD proves.
    Zanzibar: Music of Celebration
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      Various Artists
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      The Rough Guide to the Music of the Indian Ocean
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      		 The Rough Guide to the Music of the Indian Ocean
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      5 out of 5 stars Major Surprise!.......2003-08-26

      i didn't really know what to expect from this cd when i bought it, except that i really like the rough guide series, and i could be reimbursed for it (i work in a travel store). an easy risk. what a shock when i listened to it! from the first track i knew it was going to be special. the influences are just fantastic, there doesn't seem to be any one major category to place it in. Warm, jazzy, afro-cuban, bold, all across the board. i would definitely recommend this. needless to say it never made it to my work, this one's a keeper...

      5 out of 5 stars An unlikely gem.......2003-03-29

      Well the Rough Guide compilers have done it again...for those of you familiar with the Rough Guide series and who are devoted fans, I don't have to convince you of the incomparable quality of these compilations.

      For all the rest of you, this CD will prove my point. It captures forms of music from the Indian Ocean which are little known in the West, and is real treat, combining lilting and highly distinctive melodies with wonderful rocking rhythms evoking the Indian Ocean waves, steeped in history (as the jacket notes point out) from thousands of years of ships and cultures crisscrossing its waters.

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      Taarab, Vol. 1: Music of Zanzibar
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        		Taarab, Vol. 1: Music of Zanzibar
        Abdullah Mussa Ahmed & Seif Salim Saleh
        Manufacturer: Globe Style
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        5. Zanzibara, Vol. 1: A Hundred Years of Tarab in Zanzibar

        ASIN: B00001R3J9
        Release Date: 1999-09-24

        Tracks:

        1. Taksim in Hijaz Mode
        2. Ulimwengu Una Visa (The Universe Has Its Own Problems)
        3. Wawili Tunapendani (The Two of Us Love One Another)
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        7. Mpenzi Wangu Hawesi [My Lover Is Sick]
        8. Nur el Nujum (Light of the Stars)
        9. Shada la Maua (A Bunch of Flowers)
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        Product Description

        1. Takisim In Hijaz Mode
        2. Ulimwengu Una Visa
        3. Wawili Tunapendani
        4. Taksim In Sikka Mode
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        9. Shada La Maua

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        Zanzibara, Vol. 1: A Hundred Years of Tarab in Zanzibar
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          		Zanzibara, Vol. 1: A Hundred Years of Tarab in Zanzibar
          Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club
          Manufacturer: Buda Musique
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B000B6GFFW
          Release Date: 2006-01-10

          Tracks:

          1. Vingaravyo Vyote Si Dhahabu
          2. Cheo Chako
          3. Hofu Yako Iondoe
          4. Waache Waseme
          5. Zinduna
          6. Mpenzi Wangu Hawezi
          7. Pendo Kitu Cha Hiyari
          8. Naomba Kwako Bibiye

          Album Description

          "Certainly on this disc, old is gold." -SONGLINES

          Pays tribute to Ikhwani Safaa, one of Zanzibar's most storied taarab orchestras, which celebrated its centenary in 2005! Recently recorded with Taj Mahal (as the Zanzibar Culture Musical Club) on a new release. Swahili taarab music bears strong similarities to the classic Egyptian orchestras of the Umm Kulthum era, with influences from India and Africa. Ikhwani Safaa's violins, ud, quanun, nai, keyboards, bass, guitar and percussion make up a sound that swells like the ocean while their celebrated vocalists - including Maulidi Mohamed and Rukia Ramadhani - lead a selection of the club's favorite classic songs.
          Percy Grainger Plays Grainger
          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
          • Incredible
          • Staggering Virtuosity!
          		 Percy Grainger Plays Grainger

          Manufacturer: Nimbus Records
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B0000037LI
          Release Date: 1996-12-03

          Tracks:

          1. Shepherd's Hey (No. 4)
          2. Country Gardens (No. 22)
          3. Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol (No. 2)
          4. Jutish Medley (No. 8)
          5. Molly On The Shore (No. 19)
          6. One More Day My John (No. 1 - Complex Version)
          7. Spoon River (No. 1)
          8. The Warriors - Music To An Imaginary Ballet
          9. Ramble On The Last Love-Duet In Der Rosenkavalier
          10. March-Jig (Maguire's Kick) (No. 1)
          11. The Leprechaun's Dance (No. 3)
          12. A Reel (No. 4)
          13. Sheep And Goat Walkin' To The Pasture
          14. Turkey In The Straw
          15. Gay But Wistful (No. 2)
          16. 'The Gum-Suckers' March (No. 4)
          17. Zanzibar Boat-Song
          18. Colonial Song
          19. Walking Tune (No. 3)
          20. Over the Hills and Far Away' (Children's March)

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars Incredible.......2004-08-03

          His music was original, while taking bits and pieces from traditional tunes. He really does not get the credit he deserves! I never imagined he meant for some of his songs to be played the way he played them.

          5 out of 5 stars Staggering Virtuosity!.......1998-12-20

          Percy Grainger was a man of spectacular gifts. He was one of the most original composer/arrangers in the early part of this century. He was also a spectacular pianist in an age of spectacular pianists. This amazing CD documents Grainger's formidible gifts. It cannot be over-praised. Both the music and the performances are well worthy of any piano lover's attention. Don't miss this one!
          Zanzibar
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            		Zanzibar

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            ASIN: B000GCFAAM
            Release Date: 2006-10-31

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