Middle Eastern Sounding Music

Dick Heath wrote: BroSpence wrote: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is featured on parts of the Passion soundtrack I believe.  He and Gabriel were buddies (and Nusrat was on his label).You should check out the Lawrence of Arabia soundtrack.  Great score, some arabesque flavors.  Great film too. I think a lot of my Anglo-Pakistani friends would cringe at the thought of  the Khan's family music, based on Qawwali, being located in the Middle East - instead 'Middle Eastern'  strictly refers to Arabic and/or Western Muslim music, so also take in Turkish and some eastern European - and indeed Israeli - musics. Rachid Taha has alos been mentioned but the great diva of  Rai singers, who only died died last summer in her mid -80's, was Rimitti - her album Sidi Mansour, with Flea and Robert Fripp along with former members  of Zappa's brass section is an ear opener - and there is a remix album version of this too! Check out the Algerian/French group Duode - a great pun on what they play and there being two of them. Jonas Hellborg in one of his many  excursions into many musical territories, recorded Aram of Two Rivers, with Syrian traditional musicians. And Plant & Page's No Quarter has a very strong Middle Eastern flavour from Morocco to Egypt. BTW did Brian Jones' recording of Moroccan traditional musicians ever get a CD issue - reminded that Plant & Page apparently used the said same musicians some 20 years later?

I haven't heard any one mention Brian Jones' field recording in a long time, back in the day it was the number one hip obscure hard to find record out there. It was a real "name dropper" when you wanted to show underground your tastes were.

I forget the name of it, but I do remember it had field recordings that were processed through phase shifters in an attempt to sound more "psychedelic". I would imagine by today's standards it would be fairly "kitsch", but I may be wrong on that.

Dick Heath wrote: BroSpence wrote: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is featured on parts of the Passion soundtrack I believe.  He and Gabriel were buddies (and Nusrat was on his label). You should check out the Lawrence of Arabia soundtrack.  Great score, some arabesque flavors.  Great film too. I think a lot of my Anglo-Pakistani friends would cringe at the thought of  the Khan's family music, based on Qawwali, being located in the Middle East - instead 'Middle Eastern'  strictly refers to Arabic and/or Western Muslim music, so also take in Turkish and some eastern European - and indeed Israeli - musics.

As I had stated in my first post of the thread, I don't consider him middle eastern since he is from Pakistan, but he would be satisfying for what is being sought after.

Novalis wrote: Any recommendations on Middle Eastern sounding music? It doesn't have to be world/folk music or authentic Middle Eastern music, but it must have that Middle Eastern feel.

Check Orphaned Land from Turkey (if I remember correctly)

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