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Seeking N. African Music - Arrange Trade?

John Erlich - 1-31-2006 at 12:47 PM

Greeting Fellow Oudists,

I live in Northern California, USA, where most of our Arabs are Lebanese (#1), Palestinian (#2), or Yemeni (#3). There are few Moroccans, Algerians, or Tunisians here, and it is very hard to find recordings of traditional North African music. I am not looking for fancy CDs made for export to Europe and North America, the "Musique du Monde" type. I want those cheap, funky cassettes that you can buy in Arabic groceries.

I figure that the basic Egyptian and Lebanese music is available in any big city in Europe or North America, but maybe I can trade someone something harder to find, like traditional Yemeni or Iraqi music for cassettes of traditional North African music.

Anyone interested? Any of you folks in Franjistan (France) maybe?

E-mail me at shalomsalaam01@hotmail.com

B'Slama,
John

zalzal - 1-31-2006 at 01:25 PM

You can start listening to the king of loutar Muhammad Rouicha.

http://www.mondomix.com/fr/videos.php?artist_id=1027&reportage_...

http://www.tayri.nl/muziek.php

http://lamall.free.fr/musics.htm

http://dias38.skyblog.com/

http://www.medi1.com/musique/liste_titres.php?t=&chanteur=MOHAM...

http://1elksiba.free.fr/index.php?mod=communiquer&ac=musique

http://www.tinejdad.com/modules/smartmedia/folder.php?categoryid=1&...