Arabic Lounge Music. I guess we can call it that. I acidently found this box at Media Markt, and would probably not have looked more closely on it if it hadn't been named Hotel Marrakesh. I have great memories from Marrakesh aswell as from Marrocco and I basicly bought it because of it's name. And the fact that it is really beautiful and lets face it: A box is a box is a box.
So, is is any good then? I would say, it's a quite brilliant box of music. I guess it needs it moment to come to it's right, and even thou arabic music is not something I usually listen to, this is a quite modern and electronic collection of music and i can't waiot until the summer comes and i can drink tea and have my breakfast together with this music. It's relaxing, meditating with parts of deep arabic chillout. The music is separated in three different catagories/cds and that works really well:
• The Arabica Bar & Café
• Drakes Club & Cocktail Lounge
• Elysium Spa Retreat
The person who has put this collection together is Harri Kakoulli, and I have not heard his name before i bought this box. But it seems like he is some kind of famous dj/producer and has spend lots of time arranging clubs in Cyprus. Wikipedia tells me also nothing.
For all hesitating another bonus with this release is that there are snippets of almost all the songs online at the record labels website World Of Crazy Diamond. But here is the direct links:
The Arabic Bar & Café
1:Amira Saqati:Madinti
2:Harry Kakoulli:Z Song(Nomad Spirit Remix)
3:Harry Kakoulli:Burning Sorrow Chant
4:Al-pha X:Sahara
5:Amira Saqati:Felestin
6:MC Skyline:Arabian Knights(DJ Ahmed Special mix)
7:Dream Team feat Momak:One World One Day
8:Amira Saqati:Sabra Dima
9:Radar:Running Away
10:Marrakesh Massive:Ambaric Chill(Kemia 12" mix)
11:Al-pha X:Kinetic Radio
Drakes Club & Cocktail Lounge
1:Maghrebika:Babour
2:Harry Kakoulli:DriftingHorizons(Future Chill mix)
3:Radar:Caravanne
4:Harry Kakoulli:Blue Trees(Chaotic Kasbah mix)
5:Harry Kakoulli:Souk Rush(Hard Electro Remix)
6:Nomads of Dance vs Ali Hassal:Youssef's Poem
7:T.I.A.C:Camel Train(Marrakesh Mix)
8:Amira Saqati:Sans Tes Mots
9:Cheb Rayah feat DJ Momo:The Bedouin's Dream
10:Harry Kakoulli:Zazballah(Smoking club remix)
11:Amira Saqati:PSY Habibi
Disc three is exclusive and can only be listen to after you have bough the set, but is a slow 60 minutes, arabic, chill out track that will make you relax and sleep if you just close your eyes.
It excists two other box-sets in the same spirit released from the same lable. You should check them out aswell. The Hotel St Tropez, and St Tropez La Suite. The links below will help you find them.
worldofcrazydiamond.com
myspace.com/harrikakoulli
worldofcrazydiamond.com/HotelMarrakesh.htm
worldofcrazydiamond.com/HotelStTropez.htm
worldofcrazydiamond.com/LaSuite.htm
alientemple.com/at/html/hotel_marrakesh.html
Where to buy it? Try Amazon.com.
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