Brothers of the Baladi - Gravity of Love - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Brothers of the Baladi - Beyond the Tenth [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/18/2013

Food of Love is the second recording from Brothers of the Baladi. Originally recorded and released on cassette in 1983, this is the official CD of the second of the duo's first three recordings featuring Michael Beach and Joseph Pusey performing Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Armenian music. The title quotes Shakespeare 'If music be the food of love, then play on.Inch in fact the duo provided music for several Shakespeare plays through those years. This CD includes a medley of Arabic songs, a Persian suite complete with a zarb (Persian drum) drum solo, two Armenian folk dance songs and guest vocalist Christine Gault singing an Arabic folk song called Festani. They perform all the music on traditional acoustic Middle Eastern instruments with guest artist Stephen Skaggs on Middle Eastern clarinet. Vocals are in Arabic, Farsi and Armenian. Food of Love is perfect for Belly Dancers, American Tribal Dancers, Folk Dancers and anyone interested in Middle Eastern and World Music.

This is among our favorite Tom Ze albums. Richard Gehr who writes so much better then we had this to say about Tom You don't need to be a polymath to love Tom Zé's's music, but it helps. A seminal figure of the early-'70s Tropicalismo movement in Brazil that launched the careers of Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Os Mutantes, among others, Zé's is a card-carrying cultural cannibal inspired equally by both ideas and sounds. InchI don't make art,Inch he has said. InchI make spoken or sung journalism.Inch By way of explaining his unique outsider status in Brazilian popular music for National Public Radio, Zé recalled how he Inchdiscovered at a young age that I was horrible composer, a horrible instrumentalist, and a horrible singer.Inch Like Lee Perry, George Clinton, Kip Hanrahan and Hal Willner, Zé is a genre unto himself, an uncompromising ringmaster with a talent for marshaling mighty forces to manifest his idiosyncratic musical visions. Born Antonio José Santana Martins in the outback village of Irara, Bahia, in 1936, Tom Zé was a semipopular singer-songwriter from his eponymous debut album in 1968 through the '70s. By the end of the '80s, however, a discouraged Zé was on the verge of abandoning music completely. In fact, he was on the verge of assuming management of a gas station with his wife when he learned that David Byrne wanted to meet him. Drawn to it's barbed-wire cover illustration, Byrne had picked up a copy of Zé's 1975 album Estudando o Samba (Studying Samba) while visiting Brazil, and wanted to meet it's maker. The following Luaka Bop releases of Tom's music revitalized his career, nowhere more so then in Brazil. Tom's third Luaka Bop album, Com Defeito de Fabricao (Fabrication Defect), is Zé's most fully realized so far. It consists of fourteen Inchdefects,Inch tracks Zé's composed through his Inchesthetics of plagiarism,Inch or arrasto, which he def