Moshe

Habibi-Amr Diab

Not sure what he's singing about, but habibi is beloved, i beleive. Nice tune. Love the instrumentation & vocals. mellow

From back in the sixties





this is the type of arabic music I recall from way back

Lisnaholic

^ Two great songs there,Moshe. Anyone who hasn`t clicked on the Amr Diab link (like me until 5 mins ago) is missing out.

My favourite cd of Arabic music is by the Egyptian percussionist, Hossam Ramzy, who has done a lot to popularize traditional Egyptian music with a string of top quality albums, mainly recorded in the `90`s, I think. Here`s a sample of what he can do with the tired old genre of Bellydance :-