22 March 2021
- Experimental
- Improv
- Regional
- Celebratory
- Flowing
- Informative
- Soulful
This episode revolves around the “mawal” – a popular Arabic genre of vocal music, which depends on improvisation, where the singer is free to move between scales, and is not bound to a specific rhythm. The mawal is usually slow and sentimental, and takes place before the song begins.
Playlist
For this episode I asked friends and musicians to send me a mawal they like, here’s their pages/soundcloud links + tracklist:Ayman Asfour
https://soundcloud.com/ayman-asfour
chose
Marie Jubran - Kadny El Hawa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOlB3-EiweY
Kamilya Jubran
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2NWxEisZu1dn9aEszJQlPQ
chose
Abd El Hay Helmy - El Fajr Aho Lah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqQQ00XXP00
Nancy Munir
https://soundcloud.com/nancy-mounir
chose
Badreya El Sayed - Talaat Fo’ El Sotuh Andah Ala Teiry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBa39iTqJvk
El Zeft
https://www.instagram.com/elzeft/?hl=en
chose
Mohamed Taha - Yalli Zara’at El Gharam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP9VHOJj6CM&t=143s
El Fanan El Qot- mawal el soh’ab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ZuOTd5DKU
Natik Awayez
https://natikawayez.bandcamp.com/album/manbarani
chose
Yas Khodr - Ya Sah’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMgJ8E8dnmc
Sarah El Minyawi
https://www.simsara.me/about
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Meriem Fekkai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwx6reQiA5w
Cheb Mami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmcaaC1JpZg&feature=youtu.be
Bachir Sahraoui - Ya Dal Marssam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHRfj9EPi3Y
Yunis
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTcKlrllXXwq6pfmKunmFdA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRVVpmli4AI88q-wLAkn-SA
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Mahmoud El Leithy - Kan fi walad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SOCaiNDi3U&feature=youtu.be
KZLK
https://hizzme.bandcamp.com/album/lstefa
chose
Ahmed Amer - Mawal El Bahr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ2HDan6iUg
Om Kolthum - El Awela Fel Gharam excerpt “Hateit Ala El Alb Idi”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7khtcXtMBX8
George Wassouf - Mawal collections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C89KCGnKfX4&t=388s