Artist.......: A∩wa
Album........: Elnar
Label........: Wikkid Records
Genre........: Hip-Hop
Catnr........: WKDCD 101
Source.......: CDDA
Rip.date.....: Mar-14-2008
Str.date.....: 000-00-0000
Quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.wikkidrecords.com/cds.htm
track title time
01. arabica 04:03
02. tayr (feat.anissa derkaoui) 04:20
03. elnar 04:32
04. madness (feat. jamalski) 03:01
05. dioud 04:27
06. kitty 04:02
07. entronic 04:30
08. wardat el layl 01:56
09. ibn sina 03:25
10. skimalja (feat. jamalski) 01:45
11. pharagonescia 03:48
12. pretexte 05:20
13. eastern (feat. says (x-makeena)) 03:32
14. zarathoustra (feat.anissa derkaoui) 03:42
15. mandala 06:57
Runtime 59:20 min
Size 76,10 MB
Release Notes:
Aiwa: The French Kings of Oriental breakbeat.
One of a new breed of Iraq artists establishing themselves
in Europe, Aiwa - brotherly duo Wamid and Naufalle - are a
French based global music act. Their new album "ElNar"
takes breathy vocals and dense instrumentation with a
downtown sound you'd hope to hear in better times
somewhere in a downtown Baghdad bar.
"All Aiwa's songs have only one thing in common - they
groove," offers Naufalle. "I mean that I love music that
makes you dance. You can find this in all the traditional
Arabic music, there's always a very groovy pulse even
behind the huge orchestra. This is why Aiwa is this mix of
Arabic/traditional stuff with black music [such as] jazz,
funk, hip hop, dub, etc.)"
ELNAR offers a fantastic body of work, sucessfully
blending Middle Eastern instruments, vocals and sounds
with Hiphop and breaks delicately spliced with cutting
edge technology. The album features New Yorks finest ; Mc
Jamalski (Boogie Down Productions), Says (X Makeena) and
Anissa Derkaoui (Algerian singer).