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September 30, 2023: Habibi Festival Preview
The Habibi Festival celebrates ancient and contemporary music from the SWANA region Oct 1-7 at Joe's Pub.
Featuring:
Oct 1, 2023 // Hadi Eldebek & Friends + Omar Offendum*
Oct 3, 2023 // Amal Murkus & Firas Zreik + Tarek Yamani & Yacine Boulares Quartet*
Oct 4, 2023 // Tarek Yamani & Yacine Boulares Quartet + Bab L’bluz
Oct 5, 2023 // Nesrine + Bab L’Bluz
Oct 6, 2023 // Clarissa Bitar + Sofiane Saidi
Oct 7, 2023 // Nesrine + Sofiane Saidi
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Comments | New | Approx. start time |
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Dengue Fever | Silver Fish | Ting Mong | Tuk Tuk | Ting Mong is the sixth full-length album of new material from Cambodian/American band Dengue Fever. In Khmer folklore, a Ting Mong is a decoy or mannequin, similar to a scarecrow, used to fight away evil spirits and plagues. | * | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) |
Kel Assouf | Ariyal | Black Ténéré | Glitterbeat | Kel Assouf means "from nostalgia" in Tamasheq language. The band was formed in 2006 by Anana Harouna, a Tuareg musician from Niger, when arriving in Brussels after a long exile. The last album 'Black Tenere', produced in 2019 on multi-award winning label Glitterbeat, is a milestone: African trance rhythms melted into the energy of vintage rock bring a significant new vibration in desert music. - artist bio | 0:03:35 (Pop-up) | |
Azmari | Khamsin | Maelström | Sdban | Forthcoming release | * | 0:11:03 (Pop-up) |
Oriane Lacaille | Je suis la fleur qui ne poussera jamais | iViV | Ignatub / MDC / Pias | Daughter of Reunion Island legend Rene Lacaille | * | 0:20:15 (Pop-up) |
Kristo Rodzevski | Armenia | Black Earth | Defkaz | Macedonian artist whose day job is as a NYC Psychiatrist. | * | 0:24:24 (Pop-up) |
Mokoomba | Makolo | Tusona (Tracings in the Sand) | OutHere | Mokoomba is a six-piece band originally from the Chinotimba township in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Mokoomba fuses the traditional sounds of Zimbabwe with soukous, funk, reggae, rock and Afrobeat. | * | 0:26:50 (Pop-up) |
Sangit | Danser | Ooroo | Riverboat | With Dobet Gnahore, a song about longing for the simplicity of village life. Sangit is a producer, percussionist and songwriter from Israel, And one of the pioneers of Afro beat scene in Israel. Forthcoming release. | * | 0:30:59 (Pop-up) |
Idrissa Soumaoro | Yélé | Diré | Mieruba | Idrissa Soumaoro is a singer-songwriter from Mali. A joyful and inventive multi-instrumentalist, he has devoted his life to helping others by becoming a music teacher for the blind. He has been awarded the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mali in recognition of his contribution to Malian culture and music. - Bandcamp | 0:36:58 (Pop-up) | |
Leon Keita | Diarabi Mana | Leon Keita (Analog Africa Dance Edition No.16) | Analog Africa | New collection of music by 1970s Guinean-born Mali-based singer. In 1970, Leon helped to found the legendary Rail-Band, which became a celebrated mainstay of Bamako’s nightlife and launched the international careers of Salif Keita, Mory Kanté and many others. Leon himself went on to join Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux alongside his close friend Manfila Kanté, with whom he toured throughout West Africa, before departing to work on his own compositions. - Bandcamp | * | 0:40:46 (Pop-up) |
Baaba Maal | Mbeda Wella (feat. Paco Lenol) | Being | Atelier Live | Baaba Maal has been appointed by the United Nations as a Goodwill Ambassador, an honorary spokesperson representing the UN’s interests, raising awareness and mobilising support. | 0:48:07 (Pop-up) | |
Maher Cissoko | Foromateng | Kora World | ajabu! | From Sweden via Senegal. Maher Cissoko was born to be a kora player in one of the greatest Griot families in Casamance, Senegal. His family has seen the art of the griot and kora playing being passed from generation to generation through more than 700 years. - WOMEX | * | 0:54:41 (Pop-up) |
Koum Tara | Kifech Nensa | Baraaim El-Louz | Odradek Records | Koum Tara is a meeting of four musical worlds centered around a common project, created and directed by pianist-composer Karim Maurice: traditional chaâbi music, classical string quartet, contemporary music, and jazz. The raw material was extracted from the traditional repertoire of Algerian singer Sid Ahmed Belksier. - Odradek Records. Forthcoming release. | * | 1:03:30 (Pop-up) |
Nègarit | Yewelalia (Gurage) | Origins | Buda Musique | Self-described as an Indigenous Ethiopian Jazz Project. Forthcoming release. | 1:08:20 (Pop-up) | |
Samuel Belay | Aynotchesh Yerèfu | Various Artists: Ethiopiques Volume 8: Swinging Addis | Buda Musique | Member of Ethiopia's Army Band. | 1:13:16 (Pop-up) | |
Vimma | Antrasiitille | Tornadon silmässä (In the Eye of the Tornado) | Vimma means frenzy or mania in Finnish | * | 1:16:26 (Pop-up) | |
Bab L'Bluz | El Gamra | Nayda! | Real World | Fronted by an African-Moroccan woman in a traditionally male role, Bab L' Bluz are devoted to a revolution in attitude which dovetails with Morocco's 'nayda' youth movement - a new wave of artists and musicians taking their cues from local heritage, singing words of freedom in the Moroccan-Arabic dialect of darija. - bandcamp | 1:25:30 (Pop-up) | |
Sofiane Saidi & Mazalda | El Ndjoum (arr. Ammar 808) | El Ndjoum | Airfono | The press nicknamed him the Prince of Raï 2.0. The label makes him laugh. Known for his numerous collaborations, with his band Mazalda he reinvented a new, funky version of 1980’s Raï, with analog synths, saz, North-African percussion and trance-inducing vocals. Now solo, his live show is a rare experience, a subversive exploration, a charge of erotic transgression, the raï soul in an electronic body. - Habibi Festival and other sources | 1:28:41 (Pop-up) | |
Nesrine Belmokh | Rissala | Nesrine | ACT | When Nesrine Belmokh and her trio NES emerged in 2018, the music world was taken by surprise and captivated by her unique fusion of voice, cello, and percussion. In her latest album, simply titled "Nesrine," she continues to showcase her personal and musical journey, seamlessly blending her North African roots with her European present. - Habibi Festival | 1:35:20 (Pop-up) | |
Amal Murkus | Ah Ya Asmar | Na'na' Ya Na'na' | Levantine Music | Often known as the Voice of Palestine, Amal Murkus’s songs take inspiration from Palestinian folkloric themes as well as original compositions that feature elements of pop, rock, Western Classical, jazz and many global influences, creating a breath- taking modern and authentic sound. - Habibi Festival | 1:38:53 (Pop-up) | |
Clarissa Bitar | Bayara | Hassan Sabi | Levantine Music | Clarissa Bitar is an award-winning Palestinian oud musician and composer. Hailing from the vibrant city of Los Angeles, California, Clarissa's profound connection to their Palestinian heritage infuses their music with a unique soulful touch. She has studied with prominent Arab oudists like Simon Shaheen, Charbel Rouhana, and Bassam Saba. - Habibi Festival | 1:47:16 (Pop-up) | |
Galeet Dardashti | Wine Song for Spring | Monajat | The album is inspired by old and haunting recordings of the prayers of Selichot chanted by Galeet’s late grandfather, Younes Dardashti, a famous master singer of Persian classical music in 1950s and ’60s Iran. - Forward | * | 1:49:14 (Pop-up) | |
Dimitris Papageorgiou | Sundance | Greek Bouzouki Classics | ARC Music | * | 1:56:07 (Pop-up) |
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