I didn't ask him what he thinks of the cover, but to be honest I don't give a toss.Ġ1 - Nazir Ali feat. 'What A Picon!' features dancy tunes and more emotional shite to play loud on your ghetto blaster this summer. Hammer, I highly recommend you check his encyclopedic paper about Cheb Khaled.Ī treat here with this compilation prepared by our now famous (and alcoholic) Roady. Read through the comments for all of it.Ġ2.) Laila Ya Laila (Laila, Oh Laila) - Tony Abu-Judeh.Ġ3.) Ashrah, Iedash, T'nash (Ten (o'clock), Eleven, Twelve) - Melhem Barakat & The Rahbani Brothers.Ġ4.) Sa'alouni Eiouni A'anak (My Eyes Asked Me, Where Are You) - Muna Farid.Ġ5.)Salma Ya Salama (Happy Trails And Farewell) - Afaf Dagher.Ġ1.) Oumri Kan (My Life's Wasted) - Mohammed Sharif.Ġ2.) Haddi A'asabak (Relax) - Albert Farhan.Ġ3.) Battal A'ajebha (She Feels Haughty Now) - Nazieh El-Moughrabi.Ġ4.) Ya Asmar (Oh Dark-Skinned One) - George Karam.Ġ5.) (Hal) Kadabeh (This Liar) - Yousef Harfous. Hammer, who solved the mystery in record time.
* So we now got all the info thanks to Pr. If anyone can help decode a few words (the title at least) from the cover above, I would be very grateful. Even the fact that it comes from Lebanon was only deduced by the presence on the sleeve of the green cedar. The thing is I don't have sufficient education to decypher the names of songs or singers, or of the compilation itself. My lil' brother scored this tape from an obscur shop some time ago - I play it over and over again in my car since then. Thankfully, Haack's records stood the test of time, and he's since received a fair amount of posthumous acclaim thanks to reissues of several of his best records ( Electric Lucifer, Haackula) in the last decade." They're fascinating listens now, but audiences at the time just weren't there yet.
ON VA DANCER CHEB KHALED FULL
His first records were coming out in the early '60s, and Moog music technology was just getting into the hands of musicians, so a lot of the pioneering tunes from that era were full of wild experimentation and sounds people were hearing for the very first time. "Bruce Haack made some of the weirdest, most zonked electronic pop known to man, but he didn't get enough credit for it at the time. Recently reissued on Mississippi Records. Check out this, boys and girls! Way, way out stuff by canadian weirdo Bruce Haack.