Nihad Najjar
Halabiyat Alyoum (Aleppo's Music of Today)
SIDE A
- Shala Harir (Her Scarf is Silk) - Music: Nihad Najjar
- Qala'at Halab (Aleppo's Citadel) - Music: Sami Sankari
- Teslamili (God Bless You For Me) - Music: Ibrahim Sami
- Ahen (Two Sighs) - Music: Nihad Najjar
- Najet Daifak (I Called For Your Phantom) - Music: Nihad Najjar
SIDE B
- Mawal Jeet Anshdak (I Came to Sing to You) - Music: Nihad Najjar
- Gomo Nergos Arabia (Let's Dance Arabic)- Music: Nihad Najjar
- Arous Al Sharq (Bride of the East) - Music: Marouf Maghribi
- Mahsoubek Halabi (I'm From Aleppo) - Music: Marouf Maghribi
- Ya Msafer A Halab (Traveler to Aleppo) - Music: Marouf Maghribi
- Halab Wa Ahlaha (Aleppo and Its People) - Music: Marouf Maghribi
Label
Al Faiha'a
Location Issued
Aleppo, Syria
Artist Origin
Aleppo, Syria
Credits
Lyrics by Poet Safouh Shaghala Lyrics of Shala Harir by Modar Shaghala Lyrics of Najet Tefak by Poet Zaki Qunsol Arrangements: Ibrahim Sami Recorded at Nagham Sound Studio, Aleppo, Syria
More Info
Aleppo is one of the Arab cities most fortunate in having songs dedicated to it, which celebrate the city's history, its citadel, its people, and its cultural status. On this studio album, we listen to a collection of these songs performed by Aleppo's own singer and composer Nihad Najjar, who personally composed the majority of the songs. Notable among them is the song Gomo Nergos Arabia (Let's Dance Arabic), which is frequently performed and danced to at various social occasions in Aleppo. Nihad Najjar was born in Aleppo in 1964 and was immersed in Aleppo's musical heritage during his upbringing. He learned singing, playing multiple instruments, composition, and arrangement, achieving widespread success in Syria and abroad in all of these fields, with his compositions being performed by artists such as Shahd Barmada, Abeer Fadda, Wadi'e Al Safi, and Hisham Abbas, among many others. Najjar is also distinguished by his encyclopedic knowledge of eastern maqams and rhythms, and is considered one of the most prominent contemporary traditional musicians from Aleppo today.