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East of Any Place is a treasure trove of songs we came across alongside Rogér Fakhr s acclaimed 2021 album Fine Anyway These tracks hidden for decades and only passed between a handful of people offer a glimpse into Rogér s musical genius and the vibrant scene of Lebanon during...
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We re proud to present Ibrahim Hesnawi release The Father of Libyan Reggae out October 6th Kingston meets Tripoli in this fiery collection Hesnawi crafts restless grooves with evident buttressing from a reggae foundation Highlighted across the LP is how Hesnawi essentially pioneered such an effortless synthesis between traditional Libyan...
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In the early 1980s Ahmed Malek was already in his 50s when he discovered synthesizers and electronic music for himself and started to experiment with sounds None of it was ever released but we got a huge box of master tapes from his family and we re happy to present...
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Attarazat Addahabia amp Faradjallah s album came to us as quite a mystery Our friends from Ra dio Martiko got access to the studio archive of the Boussiphone label and a reel labeled Fara djallah was among the items they had found there After listening to the selection of reels...
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Habibi Funk is excited to share Marzipan our first full length contemporary release courtesy of Beirut s multi instrumental producer phenomenon Charif Megarbane The LP is a journey into Charif s styling one he terms Lebrary a vision of Lebanon and the Mediterranean expressed via the prismatic sonics of library...
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Avid Habibi Funk listeners may be familiar with Libyan composer producer Najib Alhoush who s Ya Aen Daly Bee Gee s Stayin Alive cover was included in our 2nd compilation Najib s group The Free Music produced an astonishing 10 albums all impressively strong and equally infused by soul funk...
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African, Funk, Jazz, Soul & Funk, World
Maha s Orkos immediately catches your ear as a unique album A strong and energetic voice equally grounded in jazz as well as Egyptian vocal traditions Maha sings over instrumentals that offer a wide palette of influences sonically emblematic of the cultural changes that were occurring in the country The...
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Disco Funk and modernized Arabic Pop from Egypt In the beginning of Habibi Funk our search was focussed on vinyl records Around a year ago though we got to the point where we realized that it became substantially harder to discover music that we enjoyed and hadn t heard before...
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An absolutely legendary album from Lebanon by Issam Hajali s group Ferkat Al Ard Oghneya stands out as one of the great musical gems of the Arab world A groundbreaking release from 1978 that represents the meeting point of Arab jazz folk and Brazilian styles with the talent of Ziad...
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Soul, African, Disco, Soul & Funk, World
Full album dedicated to Hamid El Shaeri s work on the Egyptian SLAM label Hamid El Shaeri is the artist behind Habibi Funk s most popular song to date Ayonha originally re released in 2017 on the first Habibi Funk Compilation If you were to ask for a defining Habibi...
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African, Disco, Funk, Soul & Funk, World
Habibi Funk presents a selection of works by Algerian born Amazigh artist Majid Soula Majid s music blends the best of Arab disco highlife and groovy funk into something wholly unique Born in Kabylie Algeria a place that remains fundamental to his career Majid Soula is a self made musician...
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The completely unknown debut album of Issam Hajali Ferkat Al Ard fuses jazz and folk with Arabic and Iranian influences into unique beauty Originally released in a limited run of 75 cassette tape copies Issam Hajali might be most known for being the singer and main composer of the Lebanese...
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Rogér Fakhr is a musician from Lebanon He recorded these songs in the late 1970s in Beirut and some during a brief exile in Paris Some were circulated on hand copied cassettes among friends others like Had To Come Back Wet were never released His music effortlessly combines folk with...
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This compilation of songs is not meant as a historic reflection of popular music of the Arab world It is a very personal selection of songs we grew to like at Habibi Funk It is music that historically never existed as a unified musical genre We think it s important...
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I still remember the first time I heard Ahmed Malek It was 2012 Back then I didn t know much about Arabic music but I was about to leave Berlin for a couple of weeks to go to Tunisia I was working as a project manager for a music recoding...
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Jazz Jazz Jazz is described by Habibi Funk founder Jannis Stuertz as ranging from instrumental tracks awaking memories of 1970s crime thriller soundtracks to more Sudanese rooted tracks a lot of them modernised versions of traditional tribal rhythms and even an excursion into Soukouss The album marks Habibi Funk s...
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About a year or two ago we started talking to Sharhabeel one of our favorite Sudanese musicians with the help of his son and our colleague in Khartoum Larissa about re releasing some of his old music I had never been to Sudan before and despite some great help in...
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Libyan artist Ahmed Ben Ali makes what he terms Libyan style reggae The description certainly holds for Sibhana s title track a rocksteady strut that is full of digi dub tricks However while the other tune here Damek Majeb has some dancehall indebted dembow about its beat the overall effect...
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Sharhabil was born in 1935 and he is the founding father of the Sudanese Jazz scene His aim was to modernize Sudanese music by bringing it together with western influences and instrumentation like he summarized it himself in a 2004 interview for Al Ahram Weekly Haqiba music you know was...
