Various – The Yemen Tihama – Trance & Dance Music From The Red Sea Coast Of Arabia, Folk World Traditional Music Album Compilation
Label: Topic Records – TSCD920, National Sound Archive – TSCD920
Series: Topic World Series
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: UK
Released: 2002
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Field Recording
Tracklist
1 Wedding Song
2 Lambunar Zār
3 Teahouse Drumming
4 Simsimīya Ballad
5 Habashi Dance
6 Tumbara Zār
7 Tahdira
8 Indian Film Song
9 Sharah Dance
10 Wadi Mawr Zār
11 Saint’s Day Drumming
12 Saint’s Day Drumming
13 Saint’s Day Drumming
14 Sham Allah
15 Tahdira: Marisi Dance
Field Recording [Recordings By], Liner Notes [Text By] – Anderson Bakewell
Photography By [Photos By] – Alain Saint-Hilaire
Notes
From the International Music Collection of the British Library National Sound Archive.
These field recordings were made as part of surveys undertaken by the Tihāmah Expedition, a multidisciplinary project which brought together a team in 1982 to study the music, history, architecture, ethnography, flora and fauna of the Red Sea coastal plain of what was, at that time, the Yemen Arab Republic.
The photographs were taken in 1974.
Track 1 Recorded in al Suwayq
Track 2, 5 & 6 Recorded in Zabid
Track 3 Recorded in a teahouse in al Tuhayta
Track 4, 8, 9 & 14 Recorded in al Hudayda
Track 7, 11 to 13 & 15 Recorded in Dayr al Khadāma
Track 10 Recorded in Mahall al Hindi
