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Arco Iris (Amina Alaoui album)

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2011 studio album by Amina Alaoui
Arco Iris
Studio album by Amina Alaoui
ReleasedJune 20, 2011
RecordedApril 2010
Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera
Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
GenreVocal music, Folk music, World music
Length67:13
LabelECM
ECM 2180
ProducerManfred Eicher
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Allmusic

Arco Iris is an album by singer Amina Alaoui. The album, Alaoui's first work for ECM, is focused on singing and features light string accompaniment along with sparse percussion. It was recorded in April 2010 in Lugano and released in 2011. The New York Times termed the recording as "a fusion of different traditions to form her own Iberian Peninsula". It also noted the album's references to musical traditions of Portuguese fado, Spanish flamenco, Persian and Arab-Andalusian classical music.

Track listing

  1. "Hado" - 1:50
  2. "Búscate En Mí" - 6:31
  3. "Fado Al-Mu'tamid" - 5:30
  4. "Flor De Nieve" - 4:07
  5. "Oh Andaluces" - 6:55
  6. "Ya Laylo Layl" - 9:18
  7. "Fado Menor" - 5:26
  8. "Búscate En Mí, Var." - 5:32
  9. "Moradía" - 3:59
  10. "Las Morillas De Jaén" - 7:05
  11. "Que Faré" - 4:26
  12. "Arco Iris" - 6:34

Personnel

  • Amina Alaoui - vocals, daf
  • Saïf Alah Ben Abderrazak - violin
  • Eduardo Miranda - mandolin
  • José Luis Montón - flamenco guitar
  • Sofiane Negra - oud
  • Idriss Agnel - percussion

References

  1. Arco Iris at AllMusic
  2. Pareles, Jon (2011-07-01). "Industrial Hip-Hop And Bouncy Sociopathy". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
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