1er Festival Algérien de la Musique Andalouse 1967 - Vol. 3 - LP published in Algeria

Side A:

Mahieddine Bachtarzi & l'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire d'Alger:

Extraits d'une Nouba du mode Raml-Maya

Side B:

1. Hassan El Annabi & l'Orchestre d'Annaba:

Extraits d'une Nouba du mode Raml-Maya

2. L'Orchestre du Conservatoire du Caire:

Wesla (Suite) de Muwachahats

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On Mahieddine Bachtarzi see our earlier post:

http://oriental-traditional-music.blogspot.de/2012/05/2eme-festival-algerien-de-la-musique_22.html

On Hassan El Annabi see:

http://fr-fr.facebook.com/pages/Hassan-El-Annabi/505929962798247

Sheikh Yasin al-Tuhami - Vol. 3 - Sufi music from Egypt

Another cassette from Egypt: this time one by perhaps the greatest of Egyptian munshidin.

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Sheikh Yasin al-Tuhami – Egypt

'Your spirit is mingled with my spirit, as amber is mingled with perfumed musk.'
Mansur  al Hallâj
Sheikh Yasin declaims the great Sufi poets. In a theatrical way, he searches for harmony through suffering, a suffering that is heard in his voice, broken with the emotion of a thousand sleepless nights. He uses his voice to accentuate words torn from another Islam. This is the Islam of the streets, the villages, the gallabiyas and the shisha; the last bastion of the poetry of the people of the Nile.
In his singing, the mythical 'habibi' (darling) of Egyptian song becomes a repeated incantation. The Sufi breath meanders between life, death, rebirth, hope and despair.
In the songs of this munshid (singer of poetry), there is the idea of something unfinished. In his way of fashioning a word or a rhyme, Sheikh Yasin seems to lose himself in a labyrinth that makes him an eternal pilgrim in his poetry.
Sheikh Yasîn al-Tuhâmi is unquestionably the most important Sufi munshid in Egypt today. Born in 1948 Yawata, a village community near Assiut, Sheikh Yasin had a traditional religious education learning Koranic recitation, the religious sciences and classical Arabic, all subjects that would enhance his career.  As no family member had ever been a munshid and there was no opportunity for him to learn the inshad at school, he therefore learned this art in his own way, by listening in at local Sufi gatherings.  He was also influenced by famous munshidin he heard on the radio, as well as Koranic singing and the great stars of Arab music such as Nasr al-Din Tubar, Mustafa Isma’il and above all, Umm Kalsoum.
Today Sheikh Tuhâmi is booked months in advance with more than 100 cassettes and CDs on the market, and a large number of private recordings on video and audio circulate among his fans. From his home in the charming small vilage of Hawatka near Assiut, he travels across Egypt for more than 200 nights every year, visiting Sufi gatherings from Aswan to Alexandria. His innovative style, his performance and his success have spawned many imitators that form a veritable  madrassa (school) based in the middle of Egypt and radiating his influence out across the country.

from: http://www.fesfestival.com/2012/en/fes.php?id_rub=41&type=66&idar=229&suite=1&PHPSESSID=02ea82a42a25208ce9f811978aec05f3

Amin al-Dishnawi - Vol. 2 - Sufi music from Egypt

Here another beautiful cassette from Egypt. 

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Sheikh Amin AL-DISHNAWI

Égypte

Sheikh Amin al-Dishnawi est aujourd'hui un personnage clé du petit monde des mûn-shiddin (chanteurs de l'inshad suffiya, le chant soufi de Haute-Égypte). Le mûnshid est le dernier grand personnage du monde populaire égyptien. Il est à la fois homme de foi, chanteur, poète, comédien, prophète et un peu magicien. On le traite avec déférence mais exigence, car, comme tout artiste en représentation, il doit constamment donner le meilleur de lui-même. Âgé seulement d'une trentaine d'années, Amin al-Dishnawi a déjà atteint une grande renommée proche de ses aînés, tels Ahmad al-Tuni ou Yasin al-Tuhami. Mais chacun de ces personnages possède son propre caractère. Au délire scénique d'Ahmad al-Tuni et au déchirement ténébreux de Yasin al-Tuhami, s'oppose la simplicité presque naïve du Sheikh Amin al-Dishnawi.

Amin al-Dishnawi possède l'apanage parfait de l'homme saint, il est affable et poli, (dans le sens arabe adab qui signifie bien se comporter avec son entourage). Le rayonnement de son regard fait mieux comprendre comment la recherche extatique n'est, peut-être, qu'une tentative à retrouver l'émerveillement de l'enfance.

Les magdoub (fous de Dieu ravis par l'extase) et les mudrib (aspirants à la présence de Dieu), aiment la sainteté que dégage Amin al-Dishnawi, cette faculté à révéler le divin qui facilitera l'état de transe, lors du dhikr, la danse rituelle soufie. Amin al-Dishnawi est censé posséder une très grande "baraka", celle qui peut rejaillir sur toute une assemblée en quête d'exceptionnel.

Car le mûnshid est un avant tout un transmetteur: c'est par son inspiration et son habilité à déclamer les grands textes poétiques, que l'auditoire obtiendra le sentiment de délivrance propre à ces cérémonies. La révélation, dans une société traditionnelle, reste le moteur fondamental de l'inspiration, à l'opposé de notre monde profane animé par l'idée de l'art comme émanation de la créativité humaine.

from: http://www.africultures.com/php/?nav=personne&no=4893

See also: http://www.bolingo.org/audio/arab/munshidin/dishnawi.htm

Sheikh Ahmad al-Barrayn - Sufi music from Egypt

Nice cassette by the legendary Sufi singer from Upper Egypt. For more information see: http://www.bolingo.org/audio/arab/munshidin/barrayn.htm

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