- Audio CD (Jun 6 2006)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Fuse
- ASIN: B000DN6CI8
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #157,838 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Debut album from one of the foremost researchers and performers of Palestinian music, singer and broadcaster Reem Kelani.
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Debut Album from One of the Foremost Researchers and Performers of Palestinian Music, Singer and Broadcaster Reem Kelani.
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The Blues By any other Name, April 14 2006
By R. J MOSS - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sprinting Gazell (Audio CD)
Think Blues of the finest nuance and transpose its disposition first to Palestine and the contingent necessity for many of its natives to relocate. This music is party to the powerful response to a tragedy. That said,'Sprinting Gazelle, by Reen Kelani, is one of the most exhilerating musical experiences I've encountered. So brilliantly performed, it's impossible to believe that this is a debut effort. The rating system is inadequate to do it justice. Her singing is up there with Alim Qasimov, Dimi Mint Abba, and Aster Aweke. Emotionally, her collection is more diverse than any issued by the aforementioned luminaries. For this, she is superbly abetted by musicians and production of uncanny majesty. Even were she never to produce more recorded work, her position on the top deck of cherished CDs is assured. It's not all disporatic dislocation and woe. The liturgical droning of,'Women Crossed the Meadow' immediately transported me.'Sprinting Gazelle', whom Reem,'the white antelope' identifies with, is an upbeat, wedding celebration, saucy and throbbing.'Yearning's' words are penned by Rashid Husain and ushered in by the pentatonic sadness of Zoe Rahman's piano. Kelani provides the musical settings for her chosen, exiled poets. Here, when the sky cries rain, an expression familiar to neighbouring Aboriginal mourners in Central Australia, the violin talks in tandem with Kelani's voice. Rahman's Steinway is again prominent on,'Yafa', a song of uncompromising pain. The singer's burden is soothed by the profoudest sonic waters of the keyboard. 'Il Hamdillah', rounds off the work: a medley of two songs, one , the promise of building and healing is constructed on a zikyr mantra, familiar to many branches of Sufism. No song could be more appropriate for perpetuating Palestinian traditions in this brave and thrilling cycle.
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