The Rough Guide To The Best Arabic Music You've Never Heard

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The Rough Guide To The Best Arabic Music You've Never HeardThis collection of original fresh talent from across the Arab world is selected exclusively from artists entering World Music Network's 'Battle of the Bands' competition. From the driving grooves of Algerian jazz head Anis Benhallak to the instrumental oud and violin delights of Al Andalus Ensemble, check out the latest sounds of the Arabic speaking world. It is true some legends of Arabic music have permeated the international music market: Oum

including ‘Echo Mocks The Corncrake’ that not only contemplates the ramifications of Scotland’s bid for independence

He has travelled across his North African homeland

'Der Filosof/Flatbush Waltz' partners a satirical song mocking rabbis of the Hassidic movement with a waltz that has become a standard of the klezmer repertoire

From Minas Gerais

Since she passed away in 2001

‘Charley Patton was a clowning man with a guitar

Other highlights include ‘Kishore Memory’

By contrast

From songs like the opening track 'Gomba'

Among the Sahara’s present-day inhabitants are nomad Fulani

Sometimes a stovepipe (usually a section of tin pipe

either taking a traditional song or tune as their point of departure or composing new ones in the folk idiom

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