#Arabic instruments

[docileeffects]

[frankysmixtape]

This is a playlist of some of my favorite songs. There’s no specific vibe or flow, it’s very eclectic.

hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it.

[nimblermortal]

The ongoing rap discourse is really funny to me because like. Music is not a universal language. That's a stupid cliché. People like stuff that sounds kinda like stuff they've heard before because their brains already know how to process it. British people were super racist about it during the whole empire gambit. Now things spread more easily and people listen to a lot more variety of stuff than they used to, but there are still variables by language, region, platform, and, yes, class and race.

So you want to earn discourse points by listening to rap. Cool! Good, even! Expand your horizons! Start with some simple things. But also, you're making the assumption that all black or even non-white music is Black American music, maybe you'd like music from Saharan cell phones, or kalimba, or goto, or...

Maybe you want to earn discourse points by telling other people to listen to rap, and that they're bad people for not doing so. O-kay... but you're also losing discourse points by not considering neurodivergence, because the mental barrier to trying a new music can be significantly higher or even physically painful depending on your divergence.

You can't win the discourse war, guys. And you usually have more luck getting people to try things by being enthusiastic and providing links.

[gregor-samsung]

Limbo (Ben Sharrock - 2020)

[mchiti]

I've never really put much attention to it because the majority of the content I have always engaged with is either in arabic /darija/ italian (which are my native languages) or english (which I'm fluent in) or french and spanish that I can understand to a decent extent, so I can fill the gap whenever google translate doesn't get it.

Only now, trying to translate tweets in a language I absolutely have 0 knowledge in as turkish, I'm really realising how utter shit google translate is. And it's kind of frustrating because it's not this shit with english or french or spanish or italian. If this is not political I don't know what it is. There's no linguistics explanation as to why this tool only works decent with just a bunch of "powerful" european languages

[vero-niche]

the ost of bucchigiri is now up on spotify yippeeee

[hopecomesbacktolife]

I just got a little burst of happiness when I remembered that the Oud exists ♡ music my beloved ♡

[kavehater]

It is 3:10 am, fed up and completely bored and overwhelmed sort of and overstimulated, but I’m just chilling and listening to alhaitham theme song <3

[uburdn]

dinner time! وقت العشاء

(they ate)

[musicforyou]

Beautiful MIDDLE EASTERN MUSIC - Best collection.

[gallaxowelcome]

Daryoush Tala'i, Djamchid Chemirani - Le Tar (1980)

Harmonia Mundi France HM 1031 (FRA)

NM/VG+ (13)

[loudlylovingreview]

Marlowe Starling: Unsilencing the Desert

In the Drâa-Tafilalet region of Morocco, about 220 miles east of Marrakech, drought has swept over the town of Meski like a hush.  Here, lush date palms once shadowed a serene oasis called La Source Bleue: shallow pools that filled naturally from the underground aquifer. Until 2021, this oasis was a popular tourist destination and a cultural hub for Indigenous Amazigh communities, the nomadic…

[fulldenimjackett]

me stressed out at work during a rush, dehydrated hungry etc: 😰

arabic cover of creep by radiohead coming on the store radio:

[irishbreakfst]

Watching a video on orientalism in music and a big ol oriental cockroach skitters on by my feet and ruins my morning... coincidence??? I think not