J-Card front cover art for tape: SMA_0541
J-Card art for tape: SMA_0541
J-Card art for tape: SMA_0541

Mohammed Al Ali

Dam'i Gharag Jfooni (My Tears Drowned My Eyelids)

SIDE A
  • Loumi Loumi (Blame Me)
  • Dam'i Gharag Jfooni (My Tears Drowned My Eyelids)
  • Attaba

SIDE B
  • Waya Al Hamamt (With the Pigeons)
  • Attaba
  • Sheeli Sheeli (Lift Up)
  • Attaba
Ref No: 0541
Genres: attaba folk
Decade: 1990
Date: 1998

Label

Al Nawras

Artist Origin

Homs, Syria

More Info

This highly enjoyable cassette stands out for its wonderfully unique sound engineering, allowing us to hear young singer Mohammad Al Ali coming from afar, cloaked in a layer of distortion. The arrangement is dominated by a thick-sounding organ, with intermittent appearances of string instruments. The smooth continuity between tracks makes this tape feel more like a DJ set without clear beginnings or endings, inviting the listener to become fully immersed and lose themselves in the music. The young singer from Homs captivated many listeners in the mid-1990s with his simultaneously sweet and powerful voice, earning him the title 'The Miracle Child.' For that brief period, he seemed to be following in the footsteps of George Wassouf. However, his star faded as his artistic activity diminished in later years.

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