FAIRUZ - Chat Iskandaria LP Grunge

FAIRUZ - Chat Iskandaria LP GrungeWewantsounds is delighted to reissue Fairuz"s classic album Chat Iskandaria released on Relax in in 1987. The album sees The Lebanese Diva going back to her roots and interpreting classic songs by the Rahbani Brothers in her own style accompanied by hypnotic traditional orchestral arrangements. Coming with its original deluxe gatefold sleeve, The album curated by Mario Choueiry from Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), who also wrote the liner notes (Fr

this was something else

microscopic work on repetition

melody and their respective emotional resonance

this album remained in the obscurity for almost 50 years

eliciting a sweeping array of dream-like sounds and deployingdissonance where the listener might least expect it

and who used to take the bus to Haledon to rehearse—and the return of Weckerman

Academy Award nominee John Hawkes portrays the instantly iconic private eye Mel Sampson

Jef Gilson had reinvented himself yet again

with its delicate

from the original tapes

were successful with both critics and musicians

While the traditional Wassoulou pieces provide the rhythmic and harmonic elements