Moorish Music from Mauritania

Artist: Khalifa Ould Eide w , and Dimi Mint Abba
Label: World Circuit
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5019842001927
ASIN: B00000AZBH

Release Date: 1990-01-01

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Tracks:

Waidalal Waidalal
Yar Allahoo
Hassaniya Song for Dancing
Hassaniya Love Poem
Tortoise's Song
Independence
Art's Plume
Oh Lord Bring Apartheid Crashing Down!
Mauritania My Beloved Country
My Young People Do the Youth of Nations Invite
Autoot

Customer Reviews:

Moorish Music From Mauritania.......2000-12-13

This album is available from World Circuit, Ltd. Cheers!

This is the best CD I have heard in Years!.......2000-09-22

WHY OH WHY is this CD no longer available? I got it out of the library a long time ago and have attempted to order it twice. It no longer appears in music stores in the U.S. This CD is one of the most beautiful, inspiring, and passionate recordings EVER! Please. . . someone find me a copy. . .

dimi mint abba.......2000-08-19

brilliant . life changing buy it

A gift to an unsuspecting world.......1999-10-21

When I asked for this wonderful music to be played over the sound system of my local record store, there were complaints about "Islamic music" from people of other faiths. What they failed to see is that the messages of these devotional, patriotic, new and old songs, all of which are sheer poetry, speak universal truths. Even without the English lyrics provided in the sleeve, the intensity and beauty of these performances leave you in no doubt that this is a deeply spiritual and happy music. And what music! Accompanied by her family on acoustic Mauritanian and electric instruments, Dimi mint Abba's voice is astonishing. With a vocal dexterity that seems to defy the impossible, she makes light of quarter tones and intricate scales heavily influenced by the Arabic tradition. The mesmerising purity of her voice is difficult to describe. Not knowing Mauritanian music at all, the nearest comparison I can make is with the Indian devotional music tradition. But there again, Miss Dimi's voice often reminds me of the range and intensity of Maria Callas and the quicksilver fluidity of Jimi Hendrix's guitar playing! Which means that this is an unique performance; a gift to an unsuspecting world. I have just one other Dimi mint Abba CD on a French label. I hear she is much loved in Arabic speaking Africa and the Middle East. So one can live in hope that her fans are demanding more recordings which will eventually find their way to our part of the world.

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