050 Band - Aywa Ana Intentionally Funny Song

050 Band delivers great live performances where they show an apatite to get better, they have always gotten better as they get more gigs. They came to the spotlight more than a year ago and have manged to retain a large fan base.  Now they are back with yet another humorous song of theirs.

In "Aywa Ana" it's me, the one wearing funny things, eating American things and wearing cool sneakers. This is an funny response to the many voices in Egypt who accuse the activists of being foreign imports. Yes, I have no shame nor was I raised up well....I am the one who causes the crash of the crash.

hope you like it...I know I liked the message and the guitar does not hurt.
050 Band - Aywa Ana / زيروخمسين - أيوا أنا من برنامج البسطه

A Composer, A Manly Man And The Lady Known As The Sun

Najwa Karam and Melhim Barakat might be linked romantically, but their collaboration goes deep in history. They both have so much love and passion to give, and they both adore every inch of their home, Lebanon. So they got together with another Lebanese dude who has sang fro everything and everyone in Lebanon.

Together they performed this song live and the fans went crazy as those three legends know how to fire up the crowds best. This an older clip when we barely knew some of the people in it, but looking back at it, it was one of the most memorable live experiences in Lebanon.

Each of those singers brings something to this song, they personal and the voices are about even. Lebanese are proud people and they have done their country proud in every corner of the world. It's time to watch this clip and think how beautiful life can be.

عاصي الحلاني و نجوي كرم و ملحم بركات - لبنان يا بلدنا

This Is What Passes For Oriental Nights In Lebanon

This is the 6th time this music festival takes place in Lebanon! They bring only Lebanese singers to party with the massive crowds who are hungry for music and good times. I find most of the music acts have to say something or sing about Lebanon--a good place.

Nawal Al Zoghby put on a good dance show--she filmed it too for promotional purposes and a music video. Assi Hallani turned the heat up with his all Lebanese style, just see the folks dancing up as he sang away. Ramy Ayach owned the night even though he performed last--his fans would wait for this handsome devil and his new single "The Apple".

It seems that each of the festival appearances had a new summer single to treat their fans to at this large music festival knows as the oriental music festival. The festival had a a young up and coming singer Sabine who was featured on the festival to lure in the younger fans. Sabine relied on her outfit and dance movies to stand out.

P.S. MTV, the Lebanese TV network is the force behind this music festival--I tend not to approve of the MTV's political agenda, but their musical one is a different story.

عاصي الحلاني كواليس مهرجان الاغنية الشرقية السادس 2012


نوال الزغبي - كواليس مهرجان الاغنية الشرقيه السادس 2012


سارا الهاني - كواليس مهرجان الاغنية الشرقيه السادس 2012


رامي عيـاش كواليس مهرجان الاغنية الشرقية السادس 2012

Ramy Ayach Really Likes Apples رامي عياش - تفاحة

Ramy Ayach invited dozens of journalists into his home to talk to them about his latest song...which he has given an odd title....the apple....or Tefa'ha a song which he dubs as a summer song. There have been a song in the past about an orange.....

I do not want to call this song lame, but I feel is will suck....however, the audio at the liver performance might have caused the song to lose some of its apple flavor. Let's look pass the title and enjoy this song for a minute...it's a song in which a girl is referred to as an apple....something really fresh.

Ramy Ayach can get away with such things, all the ladies are crazy about him....checkout the part where he is asking the apple to give him a kiss and the ladies go wild.

On second thought, this is a light dance song timely for the summer, from the boy who knows how to fire up the party. Roa just told me she LOVES the beat, so that settles....I am with whatever Roa says.

Ramy Ayach - Tefa7a / رامي عياش - تفاحة


Live

Ramy Ayach 2012 - Tefa7a / رامي عياش - تفاحة

Classy Zade Dirani - Haya - Music Odyssey

Zade was given the royal attention in the country of Jordan early on. With their help and his own unique talent he went on to become one of the most celebrated young piniest / composers in that country and beyond. In a one night engagement last year the young pianist accompanied by a world class orchestra to transform the historic venue into something magical.

Have you ever seen movie where the soundtrack blew you away? This is what feels like to watch and hear Zade's play the piano. He create an atmosphere where he can control people's mood with is careful strokes on the piano. His youth and good looks do help a great deal make him into a young star that he deserves to be. I do enjoy his confidence on stage without being too cocky.

Jean Marie Riachi, the phenomenal Lebanese music producer was behind the scenes as the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was right there next to Zade taking us on this odyssey.

Zade Dirani - Haya - Music / زيد ديراني - هايا - موسيقى

Angham Rocks Mawazine Music Festival 2012

If the Moroccan wanted a lady who can sing and represent the old generation yet connect with young ones, they got Angham. She is a voice that both males and females can relate to. She went there and performed her top songs, she even took a break from filming her Ramadan TV drama.

The only bad press Angham got was about how short her dress was--I do not think it's a big deal. She went for the simple look. Here are two clips from songs she performed at the festival. I do not know but I feel the energy is a bit low. I am not seeing the audience maybe why.

I know many Arab entertainers would not think twice about performing at this concert where other world famous celebrities also take on the stage. Morocco does wonders, and they use such festivals for tourism and helping people forget about the high unemployment.

Sidi Wesalak - Angham سيدي وصالك - حفله - انغام

Leih Sebtaha - Angham ليه سبتها - حفله - انغام

These Songs Are In Majida El-Roumi 2012 Album Ghazl "غزل"

You will see the album early July 2012, from the Lebanese diva Majida El-Roumi. 14 track of pure golden tracks. Composed by all the ebest composers in the Arab World...where do we begin? Abel Rab Idris, Kathem El Saher, Marwan Khoury, Melhim Barakat, Ellie Choury. The music arrangement and production of all tracks will be overseen by Jean Marie Riachi who has challenged himself by promising a stunning album all around

The album will have a big marketing bonanza, as Majida will headline a number of music festivals in Lebanon and around the Arab world. Ghazal is the title of the album, Flirting as a title even though there is no one song with that title. The album comes 6 and half years after El-Roumi's last album that has received so many positive reviews.  

The music orchestra was conduced with the Budapest Orchestra and mastered in Paris. WE will get various musical treats from the romantic ones, to classical jazz and classical Arabic music. Want more awesome news? Majida wrote 8 lyrics out of the 14, so we are seeing a poet phase that Majida is shedding. I am certain some of those poems/lyrics will attest to her true talent and her high sense of maturity.

Composer Melhim Barakat went out for this album he made one of the most notable songs in the album with a live orchestra of at least two minutes before the song kick into Arabic Tarab style music bringing in Majida into transitional mood form the romantic one into the dreamy one into the groove one in just one song. You cannot study this kind of music, you grow into it. That what makes a perfect ballad, like Melhim and Majida did once before with E3tazalt El Gharam

If you like diferent things, there is one song whose lyrics came from a Nizar Qabany poem and its music come from Kathem Al Saher. The house of the Rahbanis also have a song in the album as well, Majida's late father put the music for that track. The album also brings in some world figures into play like that of Charlie Chaplin and the Russian legendary composer Dimitri Shostakovich.

This is beginning to feel like the album where the best in their craft meet and bring their A game to add to this accomplishment diva. I trust the producers have a heavy task to make this album consistent and flow from one track into another without dramatically affecting the feel of the album as a whole and each song.

ماجدة الرومي : نشيد الشهداء

 ماجدة الرومي : أغنية لا ما رح ازعل ع شي

Malak Qalbi-carthage 2010ماجدة الرومي ملك قلبي

ماجدة الرومي ما تقلي حبيتها

Uss W Laz2 Band فرقة قص و لزق Flies Under The Radar

Hany Adel is the cool kid of indie music, the composer singer is lending his voice and his talent to a hot band that is making it to large concert halls around Egypt. The name of the band is Uss W Laz2, translating to Cut and Paste. It's driven from a game band members used to play as kids--think scrapbooking, where one brings various things together in under a catchy theme.

Therefore, the band does that by mixing different kinds of music together and playing more than one Genre, sometimes more than one Genre in the same song. That's refreshing. The Band participated in various events and music festivals including "The International Music Festival",-"El Sawy Underground Music Festival",-"Maadi Revolution Festival",-"The International Day for Forgiveness"

So if you want to tune in to "Uss W LaZ2", you will be getting a healthy dose of original songs is played using different kinds of music on Arabic lyrics that talks about our social life in everyday Egypt. The band is made out of friends who seem to get along on camera and behind it. See their performance with Hany Adel

Uss W Laz2 Feat. Hany Adel - Daya3ty 3omrek

DOWNLOAD: CairoKee Wana Maa Nafsi 2012 Album البوم فريق كايروكى - وانا مع نفسى قاعد

If any Westerner wanted to hear rock music from the Arab world, they will sure have to check out this album from Cairokee 2012 who have just released their freshest album. Now Arabs  will also enjoy the different yet pleasant music. These guys can get their guitar to dance the way they want it to and make it seems effortless.

As far as the lyrics go, those lyrics represent a fresh take on indie music, personal stories that is heavy on self exploring. So this is the personal album one need to hear as they try to figure out what to do next or how to make sense of Egypt at the moment.

So you know when you go to a gym in the Arab world, and they play western music to pump people up? Now, gym operators can pump people and give them something different like that music Cairokee makes. Yet someone this album, is meant for the thinking man as well, promising you one thing, the sun will come out tomorrow and you will have hope.

Enjoy the tend tracks on the album, Cairokee and its lead challenge themselves and come up with what might be the first serious attempt at giving the Arab world, a real rock and roll album. I like the simplified Arabic the band uses.

This is band made for live experiences, they make the music as they go. I think I am ready to say it, Cairokee is the band to watch! They are sitting up the bar so high which makes other similar bands look band. Too bad the government in Egypt has repeatedly denied them a permit to hold a concert.

01.El Malek
02.Kol Yoom Mmkn Ykoon Bedaya
03.Bokra El Shams Tetlaa
04.Wanaa Maa Nafsy Aaed
05.Law Kan Andy Guitar
06.Souty
07.Basaal Aleaki
08.Tayeh
09.Lakn Ehsasy Msh Kfaia
10.Mestany

كايروكي - وانا مع نفسي قاعد Cairokee - Wana Maa Nafsy Aed

Cairokee New Album - ألبوم كايروكي الجديد حالياً بألأسواق

Epic Song On Friendship And Betrayal

Friendship means different things to different people. Rich people look at it in a different way that most poor people. By the same token Arabs have a completely different expectations from friendship than Western ones. Friendship is about us most of them time.

Enough about that, there are so many decent songs about friends and how they are awesome. But in reality most of those songs are about how friends often tend to betray you by stealing your girl. Like this song by Iraqi composer and singer Kathem Al Saher. Musically speaking this is one epic of a song, it offers the live orchestra and smashing composition.

The song kicks off by saying it's too late for regrets...they have wronged me and brought tears to my eyes. It's close to 50 minutes of live goodness. The lyrcis play like a poem, but they are in the spoke language.

لا ياصديقي & كاظم الساهر & كاملة

Vintage Videos: Najwa Karam Folklore 1986

People who know what Mawal is, tend to enjoy life. It's essentially a showcase of a singer's vocals where she makes everything longer and louder without major help form music as he or she lead the song. Men and women have performed songs of this nature. The prelude for a song is often Mawal that introduces the song.

Lebanese have mastered this art and so have the Syrians. It's the one element that can show who is a real singer and who is a faker. Najwa Karam, the voice of the mount of Lebanon has perfected this art, we all know this now, but see back in 198 Najawa was nobody outside of Lebanon, she only made is big in the early 90s.

Look at this video and see that little has changed, she had the same stage mannerism now, and the same style, but she has that funny 80s look and hair. This was taken for a live performance at home with a packed hall, keep in mind, Lebanon was still dealing with the civil war.

najwa karam folklore 1986

The Greatest Song About Eyelashes "علي رمش عيونها"

I grew up listening to many things, the song below is one of my earliest ones. This song was that cool song that I used to listen to as a boy with my parents driving the car and the radio or cassette tape playing this tune. The video below is a cover for this song, it has seen many covers throughout the history of Arabic music, but the guy that first made this song famous was Rabei El Khooly.

The original version was by Wadie El Safi's voice, a hit maker and a legend form Lebanon who continues to release his work even though he is in his 90s. Rabeh has quit his career and abandoned this world to become a priest at a Lebanese perish.

What song were you nostalgic too? I know everyone has to have one..so share with us.

محمد متولي - علي رمش عيونها

هانى شاكر + امال ماهر+ وائل جسار . . على رمش عيونها

Rabi3 El Khawli - 3ala Rimsh 3younha / ربيع الخولي - على رمش عيونها

وديع الصافي على رمش عيونها

Free Concert At A Delayed Canadian Airplane

Passengers in an delayed airplane in Toronto's International Airport, passengers were in for a treat. Most of us know what it feels like to be stuck in an airplane and going nowhere. You get no food and you might not be able to use your devices. This Air Canada plane was delayed for 20 minutes in the tarmac as they plane was heading to Bucharest.

On the plane there was a band "Lemon Bucket Orchestra", they were more than happy to cheer up the crowd for few minutes. This could only work for few minutes, because after that people might start getting irritated. I do happen to like the music style played by the band and I appreciate the passengers who got into it by clapping and dancing.

What a cool impromptu concert!


EP. 4 - Lemon Bucket Orkestra - Balkan Station Romanian Tour 2012 

Reem Talhami Captivates Paris With The Classics

The classiest Palestinian singer just performed in Paris last year where her fans and those who appreciate sobering Arabic music lined up to attend her concert. Reem Talhami whose resume includes acting has studied at Robin music academy- Jerusalem. Now she lives in East Jerusalem where she is happily married.

Reem has did amazing songs with the poet of the well known Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. She can perform in three languages Arabic, English, Hebrew. I like her songs as they are not that easy to perform or fall in love. I mean, they are way heavy to digest, you have to be a trained listener who has passion for classics and the folklore.

And by the way I like the Eastern feel as Reeem always picked the right dress for the occasion combing glamour with tradition.

Reem Talhami, Andi Elak, Paris. ريم تلحمي٬ شو كان عندي إلك٬ حفل باريس

Reem Talhami. Arissena, Paris.ريم تلحمي.عريسنا زين الشباب٬ حفل باريس

Amr Diab Academy Is Looking For The Talented

Amr Diab issued a new drive, he will book you and have you guest perform in his next concert. You must be young, talented and a big fan of this prolific pop star of three decades. So, the talents are unleashing the fury of videos, covers of Amr Diab songs and beyond.

Here's a taste of some of the finest submissions till the moment. I do like the acapella cover for Amr Diab's song 'Sa'baan Alaya'. This is a smart way to get the fans excited and the young talent rallied up about performing with Amr Diab.


Amr Diab Academy (English Subtitle) أكاديمية عمرو دياب Amr Diab Academy - Ahmed EL Fouly


Amr Diab Academy - Sa'baan Alaya (Mohanad Zohair Cover) | صعبان عليا - مهند زهير

Amr Diab Academy - Ah Mn L Fora2 - Mohamed Aref

Mike Massy, The Lebanese Hipster Musician

Mike Massy is one class act, he composes, and performs in Lebanon and elsewhere. But unlike his peers he is well versed in music. He knows it through and through, thus he is no impostor. So upon the release of his latest album, singers, stars, celebrities and intellects were lining up to snag a signed copy of his album.

While producers are not racing to make music video for this gifted musician, he keeps to himself and works on his music. Think of him as the dude from your college days, the one who had a guitar seemed to be sincere and smart at the same time. I think Mike would be a cool guy to chat with about life and music, I am certain he hold his own ground. Just like those indie musicians living in New York City--they have the talent, but they do not want to sell out or perhaps unable to figure the business side of things.

See this performance of his in a very intimate setting.

Mike Massy مايك ماسي - Ya Zaman - Live

Good Times With Warda Al-Jazairi

It's hard to imagine, that Warda is gone forever. She would take a break from now and then, but at the end of day, we think she is out there, working on something new. No more, she has passed away. This brings an amazing era to an end....the golden era of Arabic classical music would end with Warda who was a witness to history.

Her death brought generations closer as a song would listen to his mother's stories about the time when Warda ruled the airwaves.

Many new listeners are now rediscovering her and learning her importance. This moment will live on, and I am sure we will remember it years from now, every time we hear one of his beloved songs. Please enjoy this short clip where you will see Warda on a number of concerts how much she loved the fans. She was a diva....not the stiff kind. She earned the love of her listeners and their loyalty.

 Warda El Habbouba - وردة الحبوبة

I'm Going To See Antoine Bleck Tonight

Many call him best French singer in the great city of New York and he is coming to Washington DC for a concert at the French Embassy. Antoine Bleck is a recognizable performer in French music. While I do not speak French, I know a good song when I hear on and I get all kinds of warm and happy feeling enjoying Mr. Bleck's tour de France.

God knows, I love a good piano and I even love it more when those minor keys are doing their thing. While he moved to America in 1981 from his home in Norther France where he first learned to play the piano first. He only started writing music once he turned 30 and owned his own instrument. Bleck's style is a fusion between blues and funk with a French twist.

I am looking forward to enjoying some of his hilarious and sentimental songs which he switches manged to transition from one mood into another with ease in between moods. This is a singer for mature audiences who are no too old in the inside.  

Antoine Bleck Mlle Nostalgie

Heba, Not All People Who Can Sing Will

Heba is an Egyptian singer who can sing live like she has done in the video below during a music festival in the Stadium of Cairo. The huge stage and the thousands of screaming fans did little to intimidate this singer. I have not heard much from Heba before or after for that matter. I am sure things did not work so well, but local concerts are always a good place.

If this is Heba Youssef then, I have always been a fan, but if it's a different Heba, then I also like. I really just cannot tell with a first name anymore. Why? Makeups maybe? cookie cutter look where singers are all going for the same look at the same time.

Heba has chosen toe sing the blues, and I think she is Ms. Youssef, this is her kind of music and her label is the same one putting the concert.

Aref Hasebak leih - Heba عارف حاسيبك ليه - هبه

Fayrouz, The Arab National Treasure

I cannot think of one singer who is more beloved that the Lebanese diva Fayrouz who has been an Arab idol for generations. While Fayrouz is still with us, something we are grateful for, we want to celebrate this lady. Fayrouz made so many people happy, but the question is who is out there to make her happy?

I know every Christmas and New Year season, she hold two to three special concerts at home. Her tickers sell in seconds, and the concert has one of the best security out there. One cannot bring his phone into the concert, no media is allowed in....but for that the production company of her son. I am sure these DVDs will surface in time for us to see them.

Nothing brings Arabs together like her music, in the front row, you will find Egyptian celebrities, politicians, wealthy Lebanese and dirty rich Gulf men who know good music when they hear it. Fayrouz no longer tours or travels anywhere. Gone are the days when she came to DC and NY, if you want to listen to Fayrous you have to wait, shell top dollars and go to where she is. In the meantime, here's a list of her top ten songs are curated by some big fan of hers. music top 10 fayrouz P.S. There are currently two Egyptian singers who go by the name Fayrouz, they both offer different music, but in all honesty, they have started good careers.