Middle Eastern/Mediterranean music recommendations

[pedro durruti]

Hey I'm looking for some of this music. Preferably something really folky and something you can have a good smoke to, a smoke of whatever. Also anything more modern sounding that's all dubby in my tummy, so something I can see through the smoke clouds. If you know what I'm talking about and can help me out, thanks.

[pedro durruti]

Hey everybody!! If you are interested in finding some of the same music as me, then I've got something for you. So far I have only found one thing of music here... I heard it on malocal classical station, so I guess it's classical music, but you could call it folk. Got some of that old opera voice on the first disk. Well, here it is! I suggest you all check it out, cause it's really good. My winamp says the artist is "Hesperion XXI - Montserrat Figueras - Dir. Jordi Savall" but I think it'll do you good to search Hesperion XXI or "Los Estrellas de Los Cielos" in soulseek or whatever progrom you use.

[superjoe]

The Psalters sound pretty middle eastern. They're better live though.

[StreetlightRock]

Rachid Taha. Algerian folk music mixed in with like techno and punk and stuff, its pretty cool if you want an intro.

[three]

Tre Martelli are a pretty good folk group from Piedmonte.
worth a look in my opinion. again better live, but still good.

[recklessrick]

Jajouka from Algeria

[Youngs]

Try the following (these differ in sound, since I don't know what you are looking for exactly, however they are all great):

pakistan: nusrat father ali khan (qawwali)

armenia: djivan gasparyan
iran: mohammed reza shajarian, hossein alizadeh, keyhan kalhor, jalal zolfonun (musiqi sonati/dastgah)
syria: omar souleyman
libya: fairouz

Egypt: umm kulthum [oum kaltsoum], hamza el din (nubien)
Algeria: chaba fadela
Tunesia: anouar brahem (oud)
Ethiopia: tilahun gessesse, mahmoud ahmed

Hungary: ferenc sebő, márta sebestyén
Georgia: bulat okudzhava
Russia: vladimir vysotsky
Croatia: mile krajina