No Blues - 4 albums

Artist: No Blues
Albums: Farewell Salabiye / Ya Dunya + Black Cadillac EP / Lumen / Hela Hela
Released: 2005 / 2007 / 2009 / 2010
Quality: mp3 CBR 320
Size: 77 + 110 + 118 + 117 MB

No blues is a unique project which explores the connection between two musical worlds: americana and Arabic music.
Both folk-blues and the Arabic taqsim (the improvised interplay without a fixed rhythm) are exceptionally suited for storytelling; the former in a somewhat rawer way, the latter mostly lyrical and melodic. In the same way as Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie documented their era in the early 20th century with their songs, the instrumentalist is the torchbearer of a centuries-old tradition in the virtually unwritten Arabic music culture. Traditional Arabic music differs from other music cultures in the way in which the music scale is subdivided. Thus the music can adopt forms that are nearly impossible in the western octave system.
In the No blues sessions the musicians soon succeeded in establishing a singular integration of folk-blues and Arabic music. A cross-breeding of Americana and Arabic music, we call Arabicana. Songs about ordinary folks, love and sadness, played and sung in the tradition that is characteristic for folk-blues as well as Arabic traditional music. ©

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Album: Farewell Shalabiye
Released: 2005
Quality: mp3 CBR 320
Size: 77 MB

Tracklist:
1 The Clock (Instrumental) 4:49
2 Columbus Stockade 4:13
3 Farewell Shalabiye 3:42
4 Nobody's Fault But Mine 3:46
5 Longa Sakeez (Instrumental) 3:41
6 The Regular 4:05
7 Memphis 3:13
8 Dancing Without Sound 3:41
9 Wayfaring Stranger 3:27
10 Farewell Shalabiye 3:23

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Album: Ya Dunya + Black Cadillac EP
Released: 2007
Quality: mp3 CBR 320
Size: 110 MB

Tracklist:
1. Black Cadillac
2. High Acres
3. A Place Forgotten By Time
4. Rock My Boat
5. Farewell Shalabiye
6. Longa Shahanaaz
7. Rageen Rambling
8. Ya Dunya
9. Kim’s Dream
10. Hardened World
11. Black adillac
12. Shurooq
13. Last Train To Haifa
14. No Reggae
15. Hard Killing Floor
16. Kim’s Dream II

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Album: Lumen
Released: 2009
Quality: mp3 CBR 320
Size: 118 MB

Tracklist:
1 Fatuum Truus
2 Footsteps
3 Ommi
4 Tes Yeux
5 Across The Borderline
6 Lumen (Instrumental)
7 Sawt (The Voice)
8 Head Lock
9 Longa No Blues (Instrumental)
10 The River Wild
11 Rollin' Maryam

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Album: Hela Hela
Released: 2010
Quality: mp3 CBR 320
Size: 117 MB

Tracklist:
1. Long Legged Woman
2. Le
3. Wayack
4. Long Riad
5. Hela Hela
6. Be Good
7. Breaking The Chain
8. Empty Bottle
9. The Whisper
10. Consolation
11. Digging A Grave
12. Farah