The fundamentally meditative quality of Phillip Glass's music makes it ideal for telling the tale of the 13th Dalai Llama as chronicled in Martin Scorcese's KUNDUN. The instrumentation is a mixture of Tibetan horn and cymbals and traditional Western classical ...
It took Cheb Mami's collaboration with Sting on the latter's mega-hit "Desert Rose" to bring Arabic music into the collective consciousness of the Western world. Never ones to pass up a trend, the folks at Putumayo have scoured North Africa ...
Middle East songs. "Hot In Herre" won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Rap Male Solo Performance.
"Dilemma" (w/ Kelly Rowland) won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.
NELLYVILLE was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Album Of The Year and
Best Rap ...
Middle East songs. The Deep Blue Organ Trio call their third album Folk Music -- and they're right; the rootsy, bluesy soul-jazz that they crank out on this CD is kind of a folk music in its way, a handed-down tradition that appeals ...
Middle East album. Much like that of countryman Djivan Gasparyan, Levon Minassian's Armenian doudouk playing first gained an international ear through work with Peter Gabriel. Inspired by the collaboration in Gabriel's tours (Minassian's first exposure to "world music"), he moved forward with the ...
Middle East album. One of the stalwarts of ARC's stable of performers, Huseyin Turkmenler is an exceptional saz player by any measure. Here, he presents a relatively basic set of bellydance-related ...