Oh yes, I LOVE the music of the Arab world! Its mysterious, facinating, and just so different and beautiful!
I did a Youtube search of Arabic music and turned up all kinds of different things (strangely a lot of hip hop and club remixes) These are some links for the instrumental music that I found and just loved! :)
Soothing Arabic Music
RUM Arabic Music
Makes me want to Ride a Camel :)
The Title is in Arabic - The Music is Pretty
Lullaby in Arabic
Arabic Belly Dancing Music
My search yeilded alot of belly dancing music, but some really good stuff from a modern group called RUM. I also managed to find a beautiful lullaby in Arabic that I really want to find a recording of so I can use it to put my children to sleep when I have them :).
Another thing I fell in love with is Qur'an recitations. I'm completely in love with listening to them. I think its one of the more beautiful things I've ever heard.
Qur'an Recitation we saw in class
Clearer version of the video we watched in class
Beautiful Qur'an Recitation
3 Year Old boy reciting Qur'an -- cute :)
Qur'an Recitation by a young girl
This last Qur'an Recitation video is very interesting to me - there aren't that many of girls. I'm not totally sure if that is a part of the religion or not, but I thought it was kind of interesting.
This final video is from Bollywood. I found is a Bollywood version of Thriller that made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe. It's really interesting to see Indian music meshed with Michael Jackson.
Thriller
I really enjoyed watching all of these videos! I definitely agree that the Arabic instrumental music made me want to ride a camel. The rhythm seemed to have an up and down movement. The Arabic lullaby was absolutely beautiful. Your future children will definitely love it. The little boy reciting the Qur'an was really cute! Most kids in America can't even remember their states and capitals. (I was required to do this, but I don't know if that is a standard requirement.) The Thriller video was great. The look on the woman's face was too funny!
ReplyDeleteWhen I first read your page I was thinking,AHHH so many links! LOL but it was fun to go through them because I like the whole Middle Eastern and Indian area of the world.
ReplyDeleteThe 1st song was like a meditation and almost put me to sleep unlike the Lullaby (4th link) which was supposed to put you to sleep but it was so pretty I had to stay awake to hear it.
The 2nd one definately sounds like a camel ride :) ha! Babies make everything cute! I loved watching them recite the Quran among many other things.
Bollywood Thriller = hilarious. Wow, didn't realize they would try and copy that song. Now I want to know why they chose that song and not something else. :) Have a good week off!
Yes, the Bollywood Thriller was fantastic! (Especially for those of us old enough to remember when the original Thriller came out on MTV...)
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