Ahmed Mukhtar - Babylonian Fingers - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Vinyl LP pressing. Mike Batt Symphony No 1 InchUkraineInch The London Symphony Orchestra are on the top of their game as they perform this vibrant new symphony from Mike Batt, the first of several forthcoming classically-driven pieces by the composer. This is the accessible, melodic face of modern classics, motivated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but it can be heard without that connection being made. In turns violent, sweet, brutal and romantic, Batt's score will resonate with a wide audience. It is not background or minimalistic in nature. It is not academically constructed, but written from the heart by a veteran orchestral composer who has felt the urge to express himself powerfully. The 37-minute symphony is in four movements

Ahmed Mukhtar - The Road To Baghdad [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/14/2005

Born in Marseille in 1921 and died in Algiers in 1993, Ahmed Wahby - whose real name was Ahmed Driche Tedjini - was one of the founders, along with Blaoui Houari, of the El Asri musical genre. A new genre born in Oran in the 40s and influenced by the great Egyptian masters of Arab music Mohamed Abdelwahab and Farid El Atrache. A genre which, while borrowing it's style from the Orient, uses the rhythms and poetic language typical of Oran. Son of the singer Dader, who was a member of the InchS'hab El BaroudInch or Banda Zahouaniya group and a regular fixture at the Bendouma café in the M'dina Jdida district, Ahmed Wahby found his vocation as a singer through the scouting network, in particular with the creation in 1937 of the Oran Muslim scout group - InchEn-NajahInch - of which he was a member along with Hamou Boutlélis and Kada Mazouni. His talent came to the fore at the long wakes held in the Misserguine forest, during which he would perform Abdelwahab's repertoire.