Various Artists

Hatef Baad Muntasaf Al Leil Bayn Habebein (An After-Midnight Phone Call Between Two Lovers)

• Habeeb Ali: Wen Ent (Where Are You?)
• Khaled Saad Al Hali: Areedanak (I Want You)
• Kareem Mansour: Ana W Al Leil (The Night and I)
• Kazem Al Saher: Bel Hadawa (Slowly)
• Ahmad Al Sayyad: Ma Biyya Oufen Ahli (Can't Leave My Folks)
• Qassem Al Sultan: Zekrayat (Memories)

• Hatem Al Iraqi: Wahashtou Al Oyoun (My Eyes Missed You)
• Salah Hassan: Ebe'ed Anni (Go Away from Me)
• Jalal Khoursheed: Ertahi (Rest)
• Kazem Al Saher: Ha Habibi (Oh, My Love)
• Bassem Al Ali: Shajaha Al Nas (People Made Her Sad)
• Abdo Falak: Ma Naseenkom (We Didn't Forget About You)

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Credits

Poet Muhammad Raheema Al Ta'ee Poet Otared Abdel Khalek

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This cassette begins with a late-night phone call between poet Mohammed Rahima Al Tai and poet Utarid Abdul Khaliq, exchanging romantic poetry and revealing emotions through Iraqi verse, followed by Iraqi love songs, or portions of them, by some of Iraq's most important singers like Kadim Al Sahir, Qasim Al Sultan, and Hatem Al Iraqi, interrupted every few minutes by more poetic exchanges between the two poets. An ambitious and creative format that shows the different experimental ventures that cassette recording companies would sometimes undertake in the region.