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01. RABIH BEAINI - Light Within a Light
02. RABIH BEAINI - Maples and Rocks
03. RABIH BEAINI - Kessara1
04. RABIH BEAINI - Taranta3000
05. RABIH BEAINI - Ya Shater
06. RABIH BEAINI - Kessara3
07. RABIH BEAINI - Song of Extreme Happiness
08. RABIH BEAINI - Kessara2
ARTIST
TITLE
Albidaya
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
END 007CD END 007CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/25/2013

Albidaya in Arabic means "the beginning," which in the case of Rabih Beaini's, might be the return to the beginnings, or the start of the path. The album is conceptually a revisiting of the traditional and early psychedelic Arabic music, all through distorted paths and instruments, remashed and deconstructed sounds, recreating patterns with diverse instruments to give a different perspective of the sound itself. Includes musicians from Upperground, Piero, Bittolo, Bon, and Tommaso Cappellato. Commissioned by Annihaya in Lebanon, by Sharif Sehnaoui, Raed Yassin, and Hatem Imam -- includes artwork by Maria Kassab. "Dips into the ethnically charged concepts and neo-traditionalisms of Annihaya, traversing through a panorama of sounds and textures. Eastern twang, Middle Eastern thematics and jazz all play a role in Albidaya, as do tribal drums and marketplace noise with the introduction of live and off-the-cuff synth experiments, arpeggiated space transmissions and eerie Wu-Tang-like vocal samples entrapped in a gurgling soup of analog beef." --Juno Plus Blog