Arco Iris (Amina Alaoui album)
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Arco Iris is an album by singer Amina Alaoui
. The album, Alaoui's first work for ECM, is focused on singing and features light string accompaniment along with sparse percussion. It was recorded in April 2010 in Lugano
and released in 2011.
Amina Alaoui
Amina Alaoui is a Moroccan interpreter of Andalusian classical music. She sings in Arabic, Classic Persian and Haketia.Amina was born in 1964 in an aristocratic family in Fez, Morocco. At the age of six, she started to learn Andalusian classical music in her own family environment...
. The album, Alaoui's first work for ECM, is focused on singing and features light string accompaniment along with sparse percussion. It was recorded in April 2010 in Lugano
Lugano
Lugano is a city of inhabitants in the city proper and a total of over 145,000 people in the agglomeration/city region, in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy...
and released in 2011.
Track listing
- "Hado" - 1:50
- "Búscate En Mí" - 6:31
- "Fado Al-Mu'tamid" - 5:30
- "Flor De Nieve" - 4:07
- "Oh Andaluces" - 6:55
- "Ya Laylo Layl" - 9:18
- "Fado Menor" - 5:26
- "Búscate En Mí, Var." - 5:32
- "Moradía" - 3:59
- "Las Morillas De Jaén" - 7:05
- "Que Faré" - 4:26
- "Arco Iris" - 6:34
Personnel
- Amina AlaouiAmina AlaouiAmina Alaoui is a Moroccan interpreter of Andalusian classical music. She sings in Arabic, Classic Persian and Haketia.Amina was born in 1964 in an aristocratic family in Fez, Morocco. At the age of six, she started to learn Andalusian classical music in her own family environment...
- vocals, dafDafA daf is a frame drum used as a musical instrument in popular and classical music. The term daf is used in Iran / Kurdistan for a large drum that has a series of four interlinked rings in the frame. Daf is mostly used in Middle East, Iran, Armenia, Pakistan, Turkey, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and ... - Saïf Alah Ben Abderrazak - violin
- Eduardo Miranda - mandolin
- José Luis Montón - flamenco guitar
- Sofiane Negra - oudOudThe oud is a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in North African and Middle Eastern music. The modern oud and the European lute both descend from a common ancestor via diverging paths...
- Idriss Agnel - percussion