Hmaoui Abd El Hamid
La Flute Oriente
Arion/Trio Records (Japan) 1975
PA-6043 (LP) w/obi, insert.
sleeve : VG+(dirts.)
media : EX/EX(some slightly noise.)
An album released in 1970 as part of the world music series by the French label Arion, founded in 1962 by Araine Segal. It features performances by Moroccan nay player Hmaoui Abd El Hamid, from Morocco, an Islamic country located at the northwestern edge of Africa facing both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean. The recording centers on solo performances of the nay, a reed vertical flute widely found throughout the Islamic cultural sphere spanning from West Asia to the North African coast, as well as ensembles with the qanun, a zither-type instrument with strings stretched over a trapezoidal resonating box. The dry atmosphere of the Mediterranean climate and the melodies shaped by oriental scales resound with an exotic beauty in these superb performances. This is the Japanese domestic edition, released in 1975 under the supervision of Fumio Koizumi, one of Japan’s foremost ethnomusicologists, and it includes his valuable liner notes (Japanese).
A2: Ennakhil
A5: El Hob
La Flute Oriente
Arion/Trio Records (Japan) 1975
PA-6043 (LP) w/obi, insert.
sleeve : VG+(dirts.)
media : EX/EX(some slightly noise.)
An album released in 1970 as part of the world music series by the French label Arion, founded in 1962 by Araine Segal. It features performances by Moroccan nay player Hmaoui Abd El Hamid, from Morocco, an Islamic country located at the northwestern edge of Africa facing both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean. The recording centers on solo performances of the nay, a reed vertical flute widely found throughout the Islamic cultural sphere spanning from West Asia to the North African coast, as well as ensembles with the qanun, a zither-type instrument with strings stretched over a trapezoidal resonating box. The dry atmosphere of the Mediterranean climate and the melodies shaped by oriental scales resound with an exotic beauty in these superb performances. This is the Japanese domestic edition, released in 1975 under the supervision of Fumio Koizumi, one of Japan’s foremost ethnomusicologists, and it includes his valuable liner notes (Japanese).
A2: Ennakhil
A5: El Hob