Choubi Choubi! Folk & Pop Music from Iraq

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This is the official thread for discussing this Sublime Frequencies compilation. (More later.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 16 December 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

It's just so great to hear such a lot of material like this that I have never heard before. I have a few cassettes along these lines, but that's about it. Many of those contain slower passages or longer jams than what's here. I wish I could share more Saleh Abdel Gafor with you all, especially one of the live recordings that gets pretty crazy.

The song I was hoping would be on here was a different Abdel Gafor recording of "Ishlonak". (The one I linked to is a later recording I think, made in more than one language, presumably becaue of the popularity of the song beyond the Arabic world.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 16 December 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

I love the style of violin drone and soloing on a lot of these songs. It's so much more palatable to me than almost any use of the violin in the European classical tradition. (I'm not talking about the short "Toxic"-like violin parts that get repeated over and over again, but the sustained tones or the parts where the violinist goes off as a vocalist might.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 17 December 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

This has a lot of stuff that's similar, although I'm not sure any of it is Iraqi. (I think it's Lebanese and Syrian.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 15 January 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

(Shit, I thought there was at least one response on this thread from someone other than the thread starter. That's okay, at least I got an interesting e-mail out of it.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 15 January 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

i agree--it's excellent! i couldn't stop listening to it for weeks. it was one of my top 10 albums of the year. (more later)

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 15 January 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Yup, it was a treat. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 January 2006 21:41 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

This is basically an Iraqi song I have been told (and definitely can hear it in the rhythms in certain parts):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zS3G3zJH4

― Rudiphmental Remix (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 22 June 2013 14:37 (twelve years ago)

That is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zS3G3zJH4

― Rudiphmental Remix (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 22 June 2013 14:37 (twelve years ago)

Oops. That is: Mohammed Assaf, Arab Idol sensation from Gaza

― Rudiphmental Remix (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 22 June 2013 14:38 (twelve years ago)

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