Showing posts with label Morocco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Morocco. Show all posts

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Abderrahim Abdelmoumen - Tartil Al Karie - Qur'an Recitation from Morocco


On the occasion of the beginning of the blessed month of Ramadan a beautiful Qur'an recitation from Morocco. Abderrahim Abdelmoumen is a well known Qur'an reciter, Munshid (singer of religious and Sufi songs) and a singer of Arabo-Andalusian Noubas. Here he recites the two last Hizbs (sections) of the Qur'an.

Side 1:
Hizb 'Amma: Surates 78 - 86

Side 2:
Hizb Sabbih: Surates 87 - 114


"Natif de Tanger, Abderrahim Abdelmoumen, par ailleurs licencié en droit privé, a commencé son parcours dans le chant spiritual au sein de la zaouïa de Tanger, où il a appris les règles du chant soufi et reçu les principes et les valeurs du soufisme au contact des grands maîtres du domaine. Les liens tissés entre le chant spirituel marocain et la musique andalouse lui ont permis d’explorer les secrets de cet art et de former son propre style.
En 1999, il enregistre un CD de musique andalouse à l’Institut du Monde Arabe, avec le groupe du conservatoire de Tanger sous la direction de Cheikh Ahmed Zaitouni. Il est membre d'une association Italienne impliquée dans les traditions du monde, « Multifrazione Projettit », sous la direction du maestro Luigi Cinque avec lequel il enregistre « Tangerine Café » en 2003. En 2008, il participe aux semaines culturelles organisées par le ministère de la culture marocaine en Algérie, en Tunisie et en Syrie. Il enregistre également un CD de musique andalouse « Al Hadika Adai'a » (El jardín perdido) avec un groupe espagnol à Valence. En 2009, il enregistre la bande son d'un opéra pour marionnettes « Davia et le Sultan », avec la casa musicale de Corse, Amina Alaoui, Francine Massiani, Henri et Idriss Agnel.
Abderrahim a aussi chanté dans différentes villes du Maroc, avec les orchestres des conservatoires de Tanger (sous la direction de Cheikh Ahmed Zaïtouni), de Tétouan (avec Mohamed Amine Akrami), de Meknès (avec Tawfik Himmich), et les orchestres Omar Métioui, El Brihi (sous la houlette de Anas Attar), Chabab El Andalous (avec Amine Doubi), Abdelkrim Raïs (avec Mohamed Briouel), Layali Nagham (avec Abdesslam Khalloufi). Il a tourné en Afrique du Nord, en Europe et aux États-Unis."
http://www.imarabe.org/musique/mawal-un-parfum-de-tanger

Comment by Tim Abdellah on his blog Moroccan Tape Stash (http://moroccantapestash.blogspot.com):
"A lovely album of Qur'an recitation by Abderrahim Abdelmoumen, a Moroccan reciter who is also versed in Moroccan Andalusian Sufi singing. It's rare to hear Moroccan melodies and vocal stylings in Qur'an recitation, so this is a real treat."

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Al-Haj Abd er-Rahman ben Moussa - Al-Qur'an al-Karim - TCK 678 - Cassette from Morocco


We post here one more cassette by Al-Haj Abd er-Rahman ben Moussa with beautiful Quran recitations, based on so-called "Andalusian" melodies, a style which has almost completely disappeared.
Before we had already published Vol. 1 and Vol. 60 of a complete Quran on 60 cassettes and five cassettes from this series (see here).  Originally we wanted to post this cassette already in february 2013, but abstained from it because this tape has unfortunately some weaknesses: the sound is partly muffled, especially on side 1 up to 11:05. Now on the occasion of the blessed month of Ramadan we finally decided to post it.  

Haj Abd er-Rahman ben Moussa was very well known in Morocco as he used to recite the Quran on Moroccan TV and radio for decades.
This volume is from a series of 8 cassettes. Some volumes were given to me as a gift by some Moroccan friends, some I bought in the late eighties in Brussels. There is also a complete Qur'an on 60 cassettes by him, of which we have posted already the first and last volumes and which I bought in the early or mid nineties, also in Brussels. I don't remember what inspired me in the beginning to look for recordings by him, but I did for many years. Two or three years ago one could still not find anything about him in the internet, but now there are a couple of sites from which one can download his recitations. As this style has more or less completely disappeared, now there seem to be people who feel the loss and are eager to get hold of his recordings.

Addition on 1 february 2015:
By now one can find many recitations by Al-Haj Abd er-Rahman ben Moussa on YouTube, for example the complete Qur'an in 5 parts here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/tanga1958/videos
If you put his name (abderrahman ben moussa) into the search bar of YouTube you will find many many more files.
There are now also 40 downloads to be found on platforms like Amazon, Deezer etc.

Side 1:
Surat al-Tauba (16:50)

Side 2:
Surat al-Ma'ida (16:38)

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Al-Haj Abd ar-Rahman ben Moussa (1908-1997) - Al-Qur'an al-Karim - TCK 681 - Cassette from Morocco


And again another cassette of beautiful Quran recitations by Haj Abd er-Rahman ben Moussa, based on so-called "Andalusian" melodies, a style which has almost completely disappeared. See last post for more details.

Side 1:
1. Surat 36: Ya Sin
2. Surat 63: Al-Munafiqun

Side 2:
1. Surat 37: Al-Saffat
2. Surat 84: Al-Inshiqaq
3. Surat 85: Al-Burudj 

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Al-Haj Abd ar-Rahman ben Moussa (1908-1997) - Al-Qur'an al-Karim - TCK 680 - Cassette from Morocco


We post here one more cassette by Haj Abd er-Rahman ben Moussa with beautiful Quran recitations, based on so-called "Andalusian" melodies, a style which has almost completely disappeared.
Before we had already posted three preceding volumes from this series (TCK 676, TCK 677 and TCK 679 and Vol. 1 and Vol. 60 of a complete Qur'an on 60 cassettes.

Side 1:
Surat 20: Ta Ha

Side 2:
Surat 19: Maryam


A complete Qur'an by this outstanding Qari (Qur'an reciter) can be downloaded here:
This seems to be a recording different from the one of which we had posted the first and last volumes.