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Min Sihr Ouyounak

Rima Khcheich

Min Sihr Ouyounak

Format: CD
Label: Jazz in Motion
UPC: 0608917455526
Catnr: JIM 74555
Release date: 01 January 2012
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Label
Jazz in Motion
UPC
0608917455526
Catalogue number
JIM 74555
Release date
01 January 2012
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Rima Khcheich

Rima Khcheich, a Lebanese singer, was born in 'Khiam', South Lebanon, in 1974.She started singing Classical Arabic music at the age of nine, and was awarded the bronze medal at the 'Bizert Festival for the Mediterranean Song' in Tunisia, 1985.Rima's singing career started off with the children's choir at the 'Arabic Cultural Club', and later evolved into a solo performance with the 'Beirut Oriental Troop for Arabic Music' under the supervision and direction of Maestro Salim Sahab.Rima studied the tradition of classical Arabic singing at The Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music' in Beirut, and her efforts were supported by her father Kamel Khcheich who encouraged her to memorize and master classics from the Arabic music heritage like *Muwashahat, Adwar...
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Rima Khcheich, a Lebanese singer, was born in 'Khiam', South Lebanon, in 1974.
She started singing Classical Arabic music at the age of nine, and was awarded the bronze medal at the 'Bizert Festival for the Mediterranean Song' in Tunisia, 1985.
Rima's singing career started off with the children's choir at the 'Arabic Cultural Club', and later evolved into a solo performance with the 'Beirut Oriental Troop for Arabic Music' under the supervision and direction of Maestro Salim Sahab.
Rima studied the tradition of classical Arabic singing at The Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music' in Beirut, and her efforts were supported by her father Kamel Khcheich who encouraged her to memorize and master classics from the Arabic music heritage like *Muwashahat, Adwar and other styles. She has performed Zakariah Ahmad, Al-Kassabji, Sayyed Darwish, Kamel Al Khal'i and Muhammad Abdel Wahab, amongst others.
Having participated in various concerts in Lebanon and around the world, Rima has gained international repute and admiration for her gift at performing complex Arabic classical forms such as Dor 'Emta El hawa', and Muwashah 'Anta al Mudallal'.
Currently, Rima teaches Oriental singing at the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music and is invited on a yearly basis to Massachusets, USA where she teaches voice and classical Arabic singing at Mount Holyoke College under the framework of the Arabic Music Retreat program directed by renown musician and composer Simon Shaheen.
Her professional collaborations include performing with Simon Shaheen, singing in renown composer Toufic Farroukh's album 'Tootya' released in 2006, and being an integral part of the Dutch-Lebanese- Iraqi band 'Orient Express'. This band tried to create meeting grounds between the Arab musical heritage and Jazz. The band released one album 'Orient Express' in 2002, of which this live recording documents their musical experimentations.
In 2006, Rima Khsheish released her debut solo album, entitled 'Yalalalli' which features a number of old songs and Muwashahat, that she performs in a personalized, contemporary manner, alongside new compositions.
A showcase of Rima's limpid voice, 'Yalalalli' not only reveals a deeply emotional and original musical expression, it also stands as a note of rebellion against the dictates of the commercial music market.
* Muwashahat: plural for Muwashshah, a vocal form in Arabic music.
A strophic song with refrain. The form originated at Cabra, near Cordoba, in the 9th century; it enjoyed a vogue in Muslim Spain in the 11th century, and spread subsequently throughout the Arab world, where it survives in oral tradition.
One of seven post-Classical poetic forms, It is performed on both secular and religious occasions and combines classical metres with new ones arranged in strophes. Each poem is divided into an indefinite number of units (abyat, sing. bayt), each containing a varied number of poetic lines. Musically, a muwashshah is performed by a solo singer alternating with responsorial, antiphonal or collective singing in unison, depending on the performing group. The performance of this difficult art, composed by specialists, demands a mastery of both maqams (modes) and usuls, the complicated rythmic patterns of Arabic music.
from the Center for Arabic Culture (CAC)

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01.
Marhabtein
06:03
(Philemon Wehbe) Rima Khcheich, Michel Khairallah, Tony Khalifeh, Anis Hawi, Mona Semaan, Afif Merhej, Imane Homsi, Khaled Omran, Wassim Helou, Salman Baalbaki, Manal Bou Malhab, Nermine Jamal El Dine, Carole Lahhoud, Rana Nader, Omar Sinno, Toufic Al Kalash, Mohammad Al Kalash
02.
Rouh Ala Mahlak
04:09
(Mounir Mourad) Rima Khcheich, Michel Khairallah, Tony Khalifeh, Anis Hawi, Mona Semaan, Afif Merhej, Imane Homsi, Khaled Omran, Wassim Helou, Salman Baalbaki, Manal Bou Malhab, Nermine Jamal El Dine, Carole Lahhoud, Rana Nader, Omar Sinno, Toufic Al Kalash, Mohammad Al Kalash
03.
Ana Hina Yabnil Halal
06:01
(Sayyed Makkawi) Rima Khcheich, Michel Khairallah, Tony Khalifeh, Anis Hawi, Mona Semaan, Afif Merhej, Imane Homsi, Khaled Omran, Wassim Helou, Salman Baalbaki, Manal Bou Malhab, Nermine Jamal El Dine, Carole Lahhoud, Rana Nader, Omar Sinno, Toufic Al Kalash, Mohammad Al Kalash
04.
Ya Kawini Ya Ali
05:23
Rima Khcheich, Michel Khairallah, Tony Khalifeh, Anis Hawi, Mona Semaan, Afif Merhej, Imane Homsi, Khaled Omran, Wassim Helou, Salman Baalbaki, Manal Bou Malhab, Nermine Jamal El Dine, Carole Lahhoud, Rana Nader, Omar Sinno, Toufic Al Kalash, Mohammad Al Kalash
05.
El Ghawi
10:18
(Mohammad El Mougi) Rima Khcheich, Michel Khairallah, Tony Khalifeh, Anis Hawi, Mona Semaan, Afif Merhej, Imane Homsi, Khaled Omran, Wassim Helou, Salman Baalbaki, Manal Bou Malhab, Nermine Jamal El Dine, Carole Lahhoud, Rana Nader, Omar Sinno, Toufic Al Kalash, Mohammad Al Kalash
06.
Rayha Abel Habibi
06:41
(Afif Radwan) Rima Khcheich, Michel Khairallah, Tony Khalifeh, Anis Hawi, Mona Semaan, Afif Merhej, Imane Homsi, Khaled Omran, Wassim Helou, Salman Baalbaki
07.
Habibit Oummaha
06:16
(Farid El Atrach) Rima Khcheich, Michel Khairallah, Tony Khalifeh, Anis Hawi, Mona Semaan, Afif Merhej, Imane Homsi, Khaled Omran, Wassim Helou, Salman Baalbaki, Manal Bou Malhab, Nermine Jamal El Dine, Carole Lahhoud, Rana Nader, Omar Sinno, Toufic Al Kalash, Mohammad Al Kalash
08.
Min Sihr Ouyounak
06:36
(Mohammad Abdel Wahab) Rima Khcheich, Michel Khairallah, Tony Khalifeh, Anis Hawi, Mona Semaan, Afif Merhej, Imane Homsi, Khaled Omran, Wassim Helou, Salman Baalbaki, Manal Bou Malhab, Nermine Jamal El Dine, Carole Lahhoud, Rana Nader, Omar Sinno, Toufic Al Kalash, Mohammad Al Kalash
09.
El Samkeh
05:31
(Philemon Wehbe) Rima Khcheich, Michel Khairallah, Tony Khalifeh, Anis Hawi, Mona Semaan, Afif Merhej, Imane Homsi, Khaled Omran, Wassim Helou, Salman Baalbaki
10.
Ahibbak Yani
05:43
(Farid El Atrach) Rima Khcheich, Michel Khairallah, Tony Khalifeh, Anis Hawi, Mona Semaan, Afif Merhej, Imane Homsi, Khaled Omran, Wassim Helou, Salman Baalbaki
11.
Al Nadda
04:49
(Rahbani Brothers) Rima Khcheich, Michel Khairallah, Tony Khalifeh, Anis Hawi, Mona Semaan, Afif Merhej, Imane Homsi, Khaled Omran, Wassim Helou, Salman Baalbaki, Manal Bou Malhab, Nermine Jamal El Dine, Carole Lahhoud, Rana Nader, Omar Sinno, Toufic Al Kalash, Mohammad Al Kalash
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