El Khat – Mute (Glitterbeat, 2024) ,Despite its title, El Khat’s third album, Mute bursts with energy. The nomadic band led Eyal el Wahab presents…
El Khat’s Third Album ‘Mute’ Released on Glitterbeat
Tag: Yemenite music
Artist Profiles: Natik Awayez
Composer, songwriter and ud player, Natik Awayez was born in southern Iraq. He grew up between Amarah and Baghdad. He learned ud from local musicians…
Colorful Yemeni Crossover Sounds from Rasm Almashan
Rasm Almashan – Yemenia (Soliton, 2019) Rasm Almashan celebrates her Yemeni roots on Yemenia (released in 2019 and internationally distributed in 2020). The outstanding Polish-Yemeni…
Artist Profiles: El Khat
El Khat is a band from Jaffa, featuring musicians from the Yemeni diaspora. Khat is an addictive leaf that has been chewed socially in Yemen and…
Rasm Almashan Releases Yemenia
Yemenia is a recently released album by Polish–Yemeni artist Rasm Almashan. She was born in Poland of Yemeni origin and grew up in Aden, Yemen…
Artist Profiles: Ofra Haza
Ofra Haza was one of Israel’s best known female singers. Born on November 19, 1957 in the Hatikva neighborhood in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a…
Artist Profiles: Mohammed Al-Qa’atabi
Mohammed Obaid Al-Qa’atabi is one of the greatest Yemeni singers who made significant contributions to Yemeni art. Al-Qa’atabi is considered by many music historians as…
Beguiling Gulaza
Gulaza – a word that conjures images of longing and despair under a scorching desert sun. The first time I went to listen to this…