Vinyl LP pressing. Wewantsounds is delighted to reissue 'Mawood' one of the cornerstones of Egyptian music, recorded in 1971 by legendary Arabic singer Abdel Halim Hafez. Famously sampled by Jay-Z on...
Abdel Halim Hafez or Abdel Halim Hafez, real name Abdelhalim Chabana, (born June 21, 1929, died March 30, 1977) was a very popular actor and singer in Egypt and the Arab world during the 1950s until...
The music of Iranian composer Behzad ABDI fuses dastgah (the Iranian modal system) with Western classical forms. He wrote Iran's first national opera, Rumi (Naxos 8.660424-25), and Hafezalso...
Facetsßis saxophonist/composerßHafez Modirzadeh's latest radical entreaty against the cultural hegemony of the Western notion of equal temperament and his argument that musicians should be free to...