Mustafa Sarmini

Mawaweel Arabea '96 (Arabic Mawal '96)

• Mal El Daher Shadni (Why Has Life Pulled Me Back?)
• Ali Rai Anshama (Ali, the Shepherd of Strong People)
• Maqlti Doom (You Didn't Say Forever)
• Ya Rab Mali (O' God, What Happened to Me?)
• Elak Wajeh Baseem (You've Got a Smiling Face)

• Qalb Al Mana Nar (Our Heart is on Fire)
• Izz Enafs Ya Sah (Self-Dignity, Pal!)
• Kam Sah Youm El Wagah (No Friend In War)
• Li Khel Abadoh Ani (I've Got a Lover, and They Took Him Away From Me)
• Mali Ara Addar Tan'i (Why Do I See My Home Mourning?)

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Credits

Adeeb Kelha: sound engineer
Radwan Nahas: recording supervision
Omar Nahas: music supervision.

More Info

Mustafa Sarmini began his career as part of the Al-Orouba Youth Club Quartet in Aleppo, alongside his younger brother Radwan Sarmini and musicians Nihad Najjar and Abboud Bashir. After the quartet disbanded, each member pursued individual careers, achieving significant success. Mustafa became known specifically for singing mawals and his contributions to the musical heritage of Aleppo, where he continued to live and perform until his death in 2019. On this cassette from 1996, we listen to a collection of mawals and traditional songs, in which the Aleppine singing style blends with that of Egyptian singers from the Arab Renaissance era, giving the cassette a timeless quality and showing the influence of Egyptian tarab on its Aleppine counterpart.