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Lady
Oum Kalthoum
Lady
Genres: Folk, International Music, Pop
 
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Reviewed in the July/August 2003 issue of Songlines magazine and proclaimed as one of the 50 World Music Albums You Must Own Oum Kalthoum — The Lady (El Sett) — Buda Records Legend is a term hugely over-used in music writi...  more »

     
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All Artists: Oum Kalthoum
Title: Lady
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Buda Musique
Release Date: 1/7/2003
Album Type: Import
Genres: Folk, International Music, Pop
Styles: Traditional Folk, Middle East, Arabic
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 723724515123

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Reviewed in the July/August 2003 issue of Songlines magazine and proclaimed as one of the 50 World Music Albums You Must Own Oum Kalthoum
The Lady (El Sett)
Buda Records Legend is a term hugely over-used in music writing, but Oum Kalthoum (c1904-75) is the real thing: an icon of the Arab world, whose funeral in Cairo in 1975 was attended by three million people, and a dozen heads of state. Indeed, there is a saying that Kalthoum is the one subject about which all Arabs agree. What they agree is that nobody has ever rendered so poetically or with such heart the traditional Arab song, and El Sett (The Lady) offers compact evidence: six songs of anguish ('You are delighted by my sobs!'), and a rallying call to Egypt (sung for the accession of King Fairouk), recorded between 1936 and 1946, when Kalthoum's voice was at its peak. ME

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