ARTIST ... Origin
Title  Duration
(Album) [Label]

Ambient sounds from Marrakesh
(Morocco: Crossroads of Time) [Ellipsis Arts]
with a sensous love poem through a megaphone

Rabih ABOU-KHALIL .... Lebanon
Lamentation 8'59
(The Sultan's Picnic) [Enja]
with Howard Levy, Kenny Wheeler, Charlie Mariano, Michel Godard, Steve Swallow, Nabil Khaiat, Milton Cardona & Mark Nauseef.

Hassan HAKMOUN, Adam RUDOLPH .... Morocco / USA
Marahaba 8'15
(Gift of the Gnawa) [Flying Fish]
with Don CHERRY on pocket trumpet

Maleem Mahmoud GHANIA .... Morocco
Salat Anbi 8'15
(Trance of Seven Colours) [Axiom]

Khalifa Ould EIDE & Dimi Mint ABBA .... Mauritania
Waidalal Waidalal 6'14
(Moorish Music From Mauritania) [World Circuit]
This piece was composed by Eide's father, and begins with three verses in praise of the prophet. A brilliant disc of music rarely recorded. Moorish musicians in Islamic Mauritania are known as iggawin, comparable to the griots of Mali. The first half of the disc features the ardin (a 14 string relative of the kora) and the tidinit, a small lute similar to the ngoni. The electric guitar comes into play later. This piece features clapping as you would hear in Gnawa music from Morocco.

Michael BROOK & Nusrat Fateh Ali KHAN .... Canada / Pakistan
Sweet Pain 6'15
(Night Song) [Real World]

Michael BROOK & U. SRINIVAS .... Canada / India
Run
(Dream) [Real World]
On this piece Nigel KENNEDY on violin.

Shiela CHANDRA .... UK
Nana / The Dreaming 8'14
(Weaving My Ancestors Voices) [Real World]

TRIBAL TRANCE .... Australia
Sunrise 4'52
(Didgin' in the Dirt) [independent]

Oum KALSOUM .... Egypt
El Hob Kolloh - All of my love 7'33
(Global Divas 3 CD set) [Rounder]

HANAN .... Egypt
Matajarahnish 4'10
(Sif Safaa: New Music from the Middle East) [Hemisphere]

ROSANA .... Spain
(a) a fuego lento 3'45
(b) no sé mañana 4'41
(c) lunas rotas 4'35
(Lunas Rotas) [MCA]

Archie ROACH .... Australia
Hold on Tight 4'35
(CD single) [Aurora]
Archie just gets better and better. The production on this fabulous song immediately reminded me of something Daniel LANOIS might have put together. Suits me fine.