Release Date: 06 February 2006
Label: Fuse
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5029424004826
Genres: World Music Middle East
Description
Debut album from one of the foremost researchers and performers of Palestinian music, singer and broadcaster Reem Kelani. SPRINTING GAZELLE encompasses Reem’s arrangement of traditional Palestinian songs that she recorded and collated from her maternal family in Nazareth, from women in the refugee camps in Lebanon and from other Diaspora Palestinian communities. The CD also includes songs which are Reem’s own musical settings of contemporary poetry by the likes of Mahmoud Darwish, Rashid Husein, Mahmoud Salim al-Hout and Salma Khadra Jayyusi.
“Reem Kelani is Palestinian but her vocal style seems to effortlessly transcend any boundaries.� - Time Out, London
“An extraordinary musical map of Palestine emerges from her work, more vibrant than any historical document.� - The Guardian
Tracks: As Nazarene Women Crossed the Meadow (Qata’en an-Nasraawiyyaat) / The Cameleer Tormented My Heart (‘Adthab el-Jammaal Qalbi) / Galilean Lullaby (Tahlileh Jaliliyyeh) / A Baker’s Dozen (Habl el-Ghiwa) / Mawwaal (Variations On Loss) / Yearning (Khawaatir wa-Asdaa’) / Sprinting Gazelle (Ah! Ya Reem al-Ghuzlaan) / Yafa (Jaffa!) / Qasidah of Return (Qasidat al-‘Awdah) / Il-Hamdillah (Giving Praise).
Tracklisting
Leon Rosselson
Leon Rosselson/Reem Kelani/Janet Russell
Roy Bailey
Leon Rosselson
Reem Kelani
Leon Rosselson & Friends
Three City Four
Leon Rosselson
Reem Kelani
