Music from Egypt – Moseqar

Moseqar is a producer and DJ from Al Qahirah, Egypt. Listen to his chillstep piece “Only One”:

Music from Algérie – Hasna El Bacharia

Hasna El Bécharia is extraordinary. She is still the only woman in the Maghreb to play gnawi music, a ceremonial beat that has remained an exclusively male preserve since the animist beliefs of the Bilad es-Sudan, (in Arabic, the Land of the Blacks – today’s Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Niger and Chad) encountered the monotheist faith of Islam from across the desert. Her choice has exposed her to a great deal of rejection and sarcasm, but Hasna’s mind and soul are irrevocably bound up with the mystic trance music learnt from her father, a pious man who was himself a maâllem or master of gnawi (the plural of gnawa) syncretism, a black Sufism forged by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves in White Africa, also called diwan in East Algeria and stambali in Tunisia. Here is her song “Hakmet Lakdar”

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Music from Iran – Googoosh

Googoosh, born in 1951, is a female pop singer from Tehran, also known as Faegheh Atashin. Listen to her nice piece “Baghe Bi Bargi”:

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Music from Turkey – Cem Karaca

Cem Karaca, born in 1945 was a turkish rock singer who died in 2004. After an military coup in 1980, many intellectuals were arested, and so he left for an exile in Germany. My friend Emre is a big fan of him – for right! Listen to his amazing song “Oh Be”, including the “most turkish” instrument, the saz, or baglama. It’s a bout his wish to come back to his homeland Turkey. But he wasn’t allowed…

Listen to Mein Deutscher Freund

Music from the US – Lowkey

Lowkey is an US-american rapper and political activist of English and Iraqi descent. In 2012 he startet a hiatus to concentrate on his studies. Listen to his song “Long Live Palenstine”. For a palestine solution with peace. No war between the religions.

Music from Lebanon – Rabih Abou-Khalil

Rabih Abou-Khalil, born in 1957, is a libanese oud player and jazz and world music musician. Here’s his nice song “No Mar Das Tuas Pernas”:

Music from Sweden – Abba

I think everyone knows Abba, the popular swedish pop group formed in 1970 and active until 1982.

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Music from Germany – Max Raabe

Max Raabe, born in 1962, is a german singer, best known as leader of the Palast Orchestra. Listen to “Sex Bomb”:

Music from Iran/UK – Leila Arab

Leila Arab, born in 1993, is a iranian electronic musician, now livining in London. Listen to the great song “Underwaters”:

Music from Israel – Coolooloosh

Coolooloosh , a band from Jerusalem / Israel

Coolooloosh is one of the most diverse, innovative and successful bands to emerge from Israel to the international music. Formed in 2003 by five extremely talented musicians initially based in Jerusalem, Israel.Rapper Joel Covington (AKA Rebel Sun) joined in 2004 as the band perfected their style and released their debut album (‘Coolooloosh’) in early 2005.(homepage)

Cooloolosh are currently on Tour around Germany , released their second album “Elements of Sound”