MatthewW - 1-19-2008 at 12:28 PM
hi everyone- they say that music is food for the soul-
I saw this CD on ebay: iraqi taqsims and pasta!
Meursault - 1-19-2008 at 01:23 PM
Don't try to eat your oud or anything. : )
jazzchiss - 1-21-2008 at 02:14 AM
MatthewW - 1-21-2008 at 02:41 AM
jazzchiss- thanks for the explantion for the other meaning of 'pasta'!
David Parfitt - 1-21-2008 at 01:11 PM
This CD was unavailable for a while, but it has recently been re-released on the King Records label in Japan. It is available from the following
site:
http://www.farsidemusic.com/acatalog/MIDDLE_EAST.html
They also have a lot of other interesting stuff on there from around the world.
Best wishes
David
chaldo - 1-21-2008 at 01:58 PM
And you even get to see some nice piece of Mesopotamian ivory art... maybe someone could read the booklet and tell us where does it come from... I
would guess Nimrud, at the of the late Assyrian empire...
Psta are ususally sang between two Iraqi Maqam vocal improvisations... see al Mohhamd Al-Qubbenchi and Yusuf 3Omar...
thanks
Chaldo
Melbourne - 1-22-2008 at 03:05 AM
Haha....
This reminds me of this radio competition years ago when the DJ posed the question - What is salsa? And all these Arabs were ringing up and saying
that it was some sort of a tomato paste used in cooking sauces!! 
Mind you I fell for that too MatthewW when I first saw this cd. It may also be that you've seen a cd out there called Opera and Pasta, becuase I know
that exists, and the pasta they mean is the one u have with your bolognese.