LIBYA – TUNISIA – ALGERIA – MOROCCO Hudba Arabského Orientu a Severní Afriky (Music of the Arabian Orient and North Africa) – Supraphon 0 17 1934 – Disc 4

LIBYA – TUNISIA – ALGERIA – MOROCCO
Hudba Arabského Orientu a Severní Afriky (Music of the Arabian Orient and North Africa) – Supraphon 0 17 1934 – Disc 4, recorded by Václav Kubica, released 1976 (4 LP)

 

Best wishes for 2022! / Meilleurs Vœux pour 2022 !

 

I have the pleasure of presenting this forgotten four-LP box set of essential authentic folk and classical music from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco recorded by Czech ethnomusicologist Vaclav Kubica (b. 1926) on the Czech label Supraphon. Kubica also released Iraqi music recordings on the great early Ocora series (Musique Populaire Traditionnelle d’Iraq – OCR 55).

 

We kick off the year with the fourth, and last, disc of the box set featuring fascinating music from Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, including mizmar double clarinet (G1) bendir frame drums (G2, G4, H1), ghaita oboes (G3), bagpipes (G2, G8), gasba flute (G6), Touareg (H3), Gnawa and Sufi Brotherhood musics (H6, G4, H2), and more.

 

J’ai le plaisir de vous présenter ce coffret quatre disques essentiel tombé dans l’oubli, comprenant de superbes musiques folkloriques et classiques authentiques d'Irak, de Jordanie, du Liban, de Syrie, d'Égypte, de Libye, de Tunisie, d'Algérie et du Maroc enregistrées par l'ethnomusicologue tchèque Vaclav Kubica (né en 1926) sur le label tchèque Supraphon. Vaclav Kubica a également publié des enregistrements irakiens incontournables sur Ocora (Musique Populaire Traditionnelle d’Iraq – OCR 55).

 

Nous commençons l'année avec le quatrième, et dernier disque, du coffret avec d’excellentes musiques de Libye, de Tunisie, d'Algérie et du Maroc, notamment une double clarinette mizmar (G1), des tambours sur cadre bendir (G2, G4, H1), des hautbois ghaita (G3 ), des cornemuses (G2, G8), de la flûte gasba (G6), de la musique Touareg (H3) et des musiques confrériques soufies et Gnawa (H6, G4, H2), etc.

LIBYA

 

G1 – Folk dance, mizmar double clarinet and darbuka drum. City of Marsa Susa.

 

G2 – Berber folk song, zukra bagpipes and bendir frame drum. Tripoli.

 

G3 – Berber folk dance, Ghaita oboe, choir and drums. Gadames oasis.

 

 

TUNISIA

 

G4 – Music of the Sulamiya Sufi Brotherhood, singers, choir and bendir frame drums.

 

G5 – Folk and classical Andalusian music rhythms, performed by students of the Folk Art School, Tunis.

 

G6 – Folk tune, gasba flute. Village of al-Hamma.

 

G7 – Folk tune, zukra oboe and tbal drum. Village of al-Hamma.

 

G8 – Folk tune, mezoued bagpipes and tbal drum. Jabel Abyad.

 

 

ALGERIA

 

H1 – Wedding music, two ghaita oboes and two bendir frame drums. Constantine.

 

H2 – Sidi Bilal Brotherhood, singers, gumbri guitar and karkabu metal castanets.

 

H3 – Tuareg song, women’s voices and drums.

 

 

MOROCCO

 

H4 – Sabre dance, flutes, drums. Southern Morocco.

 

H5 – Kasida Serraba, singing and lute.

 

H6 – Music of the Gnawa Brotherhood, gumbri guitar, metal castagnets, drums.

 

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A few of our other music posts from the Maghreb:

TUNISIA

Tunisia – A Musical Anthology of the Orient BM 30 L 2008 here

 

MOROCCO

Musique Confrérique du Maroc – BAM LD 5897 here

Bennacer Ou Khouya with Cheikha Hadda Ouakki – ATLS 1900 here

Al Aloua music – Voix d’Al Aloua here

Cheikha Donna – Khaldiphone KH 2066 here

 

ALGERIA

Mohamed Tahar Fergani – Sawt El Menyar 1004 here

Mohamed Khaznadji – Musique Classique Algérienne – AAA here

Cheikha Rimitti – Scop Music SPM 106 here

Ghaita oboe. Gadames oasis, Libya (G3):

Gumbri guitar players, Algeria (H2):

Mezoued bagpipe player. Jabel Abyad, Tunisia (G8):

Sulamiya Sufi Brotherhood, bendir player, Tunisia (G4):

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