June 2020 Record Challenge Thread (The RAFFLE continues!)
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RowBearToe
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Day 14 - Middle East, play a record that highlights music from the Middle East
System of A Down - Toxicity
This one was difficult for me and I don't know if I have any other options in my collection haha but lead singer Serj Tankian is from Lebanon, and that's the closest tie I have to the Middle East.
System of A Down - Toxicity
This one was difficult for me and I don't know if I have any other options in my collection haha but lead singer Serj Tankian is from Lebanon, and that's the closest tie I have to the Middle East.
tvham
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Sunday (14) – Middle East, play a record that highlights music from the Middle East
Thievery Corporation - The Richest Man in Babylon
This album is one of my favorite albums to chill out to, and it incorporates many different middle eastern sounds and Instruments. Plus Babylon is right there in the title!
Thievery Corporation - The Richest Man in Babylon
This album is one of my favorite albums to chill out to, and it incorporates many different middle eastern sounds and Instruments. Plus Babylon is right there in the title!
Yer Ol' Uncle D
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Sunday (14) – Middle East, play a record that highlights music from the Middle East
The man...
Ravi Shankar - Improvisations
The man...
Ravi Shankar - Improvisations
Selaws
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I was going to play the same! Great pick
TenderLovingKiller®
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Day 14: Middle East, play a record that highlights music from the Middle East
Mustafa Özkent Ve Orkestrası - Gençlik İle Elele
Per the hype sticker a 1973 Turkish Psychedelic/Funk masterpiece. I am fairly certain Khruangbin has heard this album.
Mustafa Özkent Ve Orkestrası - Gençlik İle Elele
Per the hype sticker a 1973 Turkish Psychedelic/Funk masterpiece. I am fairly certain Khruangbin has heard this album.
Waitressboy
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Day (12) – Cocaine – play something fast and short
The Kills - Midnight Boom (2008)
I had NO IDEA what to play For this day. NO IDEA. So I went with this one, because it was the closest thing I thought was related to short, fast and cocaine.
The Kills - Midnight Boom (2008)
I had NO IDEA what to play For this day. NO IDEA. So I went with this one, because it was the closest thing I thought was related to short, fast and cocaine.
Selaws
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Day 13 – National Weed Your Garden Day, play something you listen to while cleaning
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours (Warner Bros. Records, 1977 First Jacksonville Pressing)
Catching up and funnily enough today is cleaning day for us! Rumours is a joint-favourite and always gets played around this time, so a perfect choice for today.
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours (Warner Bros. Records, 1977 First Jacksonville Pressing)
Catching up and funnily enough today is cleaning day for us! Rumours is a joint-favourite and always gets played around this time, so a perfect choice for today.
Waitressboy
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Day (13) – National Weed Your Garden Day, play something you listen to while cleaning
Salvador Sobral - Paris, Lisboa (2019)
Almost all the plants I have are succulents or cactae. Winter has arrived here in the south, so gardening is not really possible. But this is a great album to play while you're hurting your hands moving the soil and trying to make new cactae.
Salvador Sobral won Eurovision a couple of years ago with a ballad that I will NEVER EVER EVER admit that I like. It's the most unusual winner Eurovision has had in... decades. It's actually a GOOD song. This album is a mix of Fado with some ballads and alternative music. It's a great album that deserves a lot of recognition; please don't let the Eurovision part keeps out away from listening to it.
Salvador Sobral - Paris, Lisboa (2019)
Almost all the plants I have are succulents or cactae. Winter has arrived here in the south, so gardening is not really possible. But this is a great album to play while you're hurting your hands moving the soil and trying to make new cactae.
Salvador Sobral won Eurovision a couple of years ago with a ballad that I will NEVER EVER EVER admit that I like. It's the most unusual winner Eurovision has had in... decades. It's actually a GOOD song. This album is a mix of Fado with some ballads and alternative music. It's a great album that deserves a lot of recognition; please don't let the Eurovision part keeps out away from listening to it.
Selaws
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Day 14 – Middle East, play a record that highlights music from the Middle East
Yusef Lateef - Prayer To The East (Savoy, 1957 first pressing)
After @Poly-Rythmo beat me to the post with the superb 'Ziad Rahbani - Abu Ali' release, I started looking through my collection to find something that fits and was quite surprised to see that it's lacking. However, I do have this fantastic record. Lateef is one of the many jazz musicians to embrace and explore the sounds from the Middle East (his 'Eastern Sounds' is perhaps his most well know) and this is certainly one of my favourites amongst his discography.
Yusef Lateef - Prayer To The East (Savoy, 1957 first pressing)
After @Poly-Rythmo beat me to the post with the superb 'Ziad Rahbani - Abu Ali' release, I started looking through my collection to find something that fits and was quite surprised to see that it's lacking. However, I do have this fantastic record. Lateef is one of the many jazz musicians to embrace and explore the sounds from the Middle East (his 'Eastern Sounds' is perhaps his most well know) and this is certainly one of my favourites amongst his discography.
dhodo
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Day 14 - Middle-East
Ash Koosha - GUUD
This guy is from Iran and I believe had to seek asylum in the UK after a music documentary that won at Cannes was made featuring him. I should get around to watching it. The last few years he has done a lot of work with AI generated music, which I haven't really checked out much, but I really liked this album.
Ash Koosha - GUUD
This guy is from Iran and I believe had to seek asylum in the UK after a music documentary that won at Cannes was made featuring him. I should get around to watching it. The last few years he has done a lot of work with AI generated music, which I haven't really checked out much, but I really liked this album.
sahomerrocks
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Sunday (14) – Middle East, play a record that highlights music from the Middle East
Joshua Abrams - Magnetoception
This is cheating a little bit since this is technically highlighting North African music. This album heavily features the guimbri (aka sintir), a 3 stringed lute traditionally used by the Gnawa. Jeff Parker, who put out a great album this year, plays guitar.
Joshua Abrams - Magnetoception
This is cheating a little bit since this is technically highlighting North African music. This album heavily features the guimbri (aka sintir), a 3 stringed lute traditionally used by the Gnawa. Jeff Parker, who put out a great album this year, plays guitar.
Waitressboy
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Day (14) – Middle East, play a record that highlights music from the Middle East
Tigran Hamasyan - An Ancient Observer (2017)
According to Wikipedia, Armenia is sometimes considered part of Middle East, so here it goes.
I bought this thing under the effect of Ambien three or four years ago and this is literally the first time I am listening to this.
I guess this is jazz, I'm not sure.
Tigran Hamasyan - An Ancient Observer (2017)
According to Wikipedia, Armenia is sometimes considered part of Middle East, so here it goes.
I bought this thing under the effect of Ambien three or four years ago and this is literally the first time I am listening to this.
I guess this is jazz, I'm not sure.
blissfullychaotic
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第十四天： middle East
Om Kalsoum ~ Alf Leila wa Leila
Considered the voice of Egypt I stumbled upon this record after a day of vinyl hopping between stores and ended the night at my minds eye in Cleveland. I asked the owner to point me in the direction of middle eastern music and little did I know he was of middle eastern descent, after talking middle eastern jazz he lead me to Om Kalsoum and said I wouldn't regret this album or Aqbal al layl, I choose one thousand and one nights. I've been dying to get back up to Cleveland to pick up , night has arrived but due to covid I may just have to settle for discogs.
Om Kalsoum ~ Alf Leila wa Leila
Considered the voice of Egypt I stumbled upon this record after a day of vinyl hopping between stores and ended the night at my minds eye in Cleveland. I asked the owner to point me in the direction of middle eastern music and little did I know he was of middle eastern descent, after talking middle eastern jazz he lead me to Om Kalsoum and said I wouldn't regret this album or Aqbal al layl, I choose one thousand and one nights. I've been dying to get back up to Cleveland to pick up , night has arrived but due to covid I may just have to settle for discogs.
imtheocean
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Day 14: Middle East
This was a tough one, definitely a sparse spot in my collection. I was thinking about pulling out my CD of the Dead Man Walking soundtrack, with two incredible tracks featuring Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Face of Love, and Long Road). But stayed with Vinyl. This one features the Oud on side two.
Alice Coltrane ~ Journey in Satchidananda
This was a tough one, definitely a sparse spot in my collection. I was thinking about pulling out my CD of the Dead Man Walking soundtrack, with two incredible tracks featuring Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Face of Love, and Long Road). But stayed with Vinyl. This one features the Oud on side two.
Alice Coltrane ~ Journey in Satchidananda