Abdullah Ibrahim - Ishmael (part)

[GreenDevilAngel]

i realy LOVE this deep resonanz from a wonderful exotic land far away (almost for a european:)

In our western world we have lost all this old traditional style. OK a bit like the gregorian chants, but... yes BUT. Never the same.

This is enormous wonderful. and also so modern jazzy.

[rastainti]

وضع الجزء الآخر من هذه الأغنية الأكثر ممتازة ، لأنها غير مكتملة

[SuperXavier30]

Beautiful!..Thanks!

[JoeyJonesIsASexGod]

wonderful, I am not a religious man but this is just stunning...like a funky call to prayer! sorry if any offence caused, it wasn't meant to! peace to all

[FollowedShadow]

Astakhfirullah... This is so wrong...

I hope you all know that the first part is a chapter of the Quran... Chapter 1 to be precise. And the second part is also from the Quran, chapter 2, verse 255. And at the end he is saying some prayers.

I don't like the fact that it is combined with music. Quran should not be combined with music.

[sum1band]

@FollowedShadow -AOBMSNR-

o' please, let'-we en-join/share-enjoyments-of any-such Beautifulled Rhythmic-'Armonic CELEBRATION due AL QURAN, astakhfirullah.

what could be awronged- by such an TRANSCULTURAL-HONOURING, as this Song be.

-ASAWRMTA-

[nikicamo]

takes you away........

love it

[mentaltfladdrig]

..and abdullah in general :)

[mentaltfladdrig]

i love the track "The farmers market of the beast" by Of Mexican Descent partly due to the bassline and a youtube user binouze (spelling?) wrote that this is the track from where OMD sampled, and now i love this track too :)

[Kyiakhalid]

I've loved this song for 30 years and I'm not even Muslim.

[tabularazor]

@Kyiakhalid

me too hundred percent!!!!!

[shuffleboil]

.....to know and understand it's real uniqnes you need to know jazz.

[mitiwie]

So sad that people don't know what there are doing by mixing Holy Koran verses with music. Even does who didn't make it but only share it whit others call on them self trouble. Big trouble. The Koran does not need music to show it's beauty or it's greatness. Just listin to some great recitors of The Koran. But to know and understand it's real uniqnes you need to know arabic.

[jerkwallace]

I disagree with most of what you just said there.

[bibiafrica]

I have got the permission from several Imams to publish another Ishmael-version by the worldmusic-formation "Argile" using as well the recitation of the first Koran-Sure. I respect your opinion that you prefer to listen to a pure recitation, but there are many other people who enjoy the beauty of spiritual music with or without prayers / spiritual lyrics - and that's not forbidden by the Koran itself - or am I wrong??

[MrPredict2010]

@bibiafrica You're right :) Alhumduiallah this is great piece here..the best I have heard. And besides at least its not degrading.

[DarkwingScooter]

No language can capture the divine be it Arabic, Latin or Sanskrit...

...but in music you can sometimes, only sometimes, glimpse it.

If Arabic approaches that, it may be because it is like music.

[FollowedShadow]

@mitiwie

Could not agree more...

[ZePep]

Something's missing at the end (?)

[avlis77]

Thanks, you are talking about the real-time music? Yes, I know, but top the right is the warning of that ( Ishmael (part) ). This song has 13 minutes and 51 seconds and I only in youtube got close to 10 minutes available per song (sorry my bad english)

[avlis77]

Anyway, I think that the sound of the music and the "sound of the words" are very beautiful and an infinite depth meditation

[meoo123]

This may not be religiously, my esteemed brother

Please leave this strongly and act of God Almighty

[meoo123]

This may not be religiously, my esteemed brother

Please leave this strongly and act of God Almighty

[meoo123]

This may not be religiously, my esteemed brother

Please leave this strongly and act of God Almighty

[luz72]

profoundly felt, beautifully expressed..suave..magic...does the recitation justice

[rennoske]

アメリカンジャズよりも自然なところがいい。

ヨーロッパジャズよりもリズムがあるところがいい。

[gahgeer]

yeah whatever

[SwamiOrchestra]

Since I heard it for the 1st time its my fav spiritual song.

[Rauskucker]

Very sweet music.

A great selection of pictures.

I'd like to know what the verses are about.

[DamjanB52]

@Rauskucker The first two parts (Sura Al-Fatiha, Ayat al-Kursi) are phonetically transcribed and translated on:

sufism.org/society/salaat/ayat­s/fatiha.html

sufism.org/society/salaat/ayat­s/kursi.html

[lurra9]

sublime

[roshkum]

Can someone tell me which album this version appears on? As for the his music, nothing I can say will do justice so I wont try.

[gahgeer]

Some fo the verses come from the Koran, Muslims' holy book, and other prayers to God and his prophet Muhammad. I wonder why a fatwa hasn't so far been issued against him for combining religious text and music

[steinarguitar]

Africa: Tears & Laughter

[Telooz]

wonderful

[roadrunnerdance]

He did also my fav "the CALL" ohh man soo beautiful!

[SwimmingLightes]

sounds of power

[undone1963]

ﺗﻜﻮﻳﻦ 16:11-12 (Arabic Life Application Bible)

11 وَأَضَافَ مَلاَكُ الرَّبِّ: «هُوَذَا أَنْتِ حَامِلٌ، وَسَتَلِدِينَ ابْناً تَدْعِينَهُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ (وَمَعْنَاهُ: اللهُ يَسْمَعُ) لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ قَدْ سَمِعَ صَوْتَ شَقَائِكِ.

12 وَيَكُونُ إِنْسَاناً وَحْشِيّاً يُعَادِي الْجَمِيعَ وَالْجَمِيعُ يُعَادُونَهُ، وَيَعِيشُ مُسْتَوْحِشاً مُتَحَدِّياً كُلَّ إِخْوَتِهِ».

[Slapsista]

alhumduliillah! amin amin amin

[kcollinsart]

Beautiful! Abdullah Ibrahim I a great musician. Have you ever heard his (with Carlos Ward, too) album "live at Sweet Basil's, Vol. 1"? Incredible. It is out of print. I have been looking for it for years. I had it on a cassette .... long gone.

Some music can change your life. Thank you for posting this.

[oudacity]

@kcollinsart just found a promo COPY of the album after i saw he clip on here. there is no vol 2.

[Ghassan3052006]

what is this language? this man needs tell us , I speak arabic and i can sing arabic? he is liar, this is not arabic language.

why he do that?

[trkmalki]

it is arabic...

unfortunatly, he is singing he quran ( al fatiha )

[mauludsadiq]

how ignorant is THIS statement - jeez

[texecana91]

The great Abdullah Ibrahim.

[klexxxer]

awhile ago I heard the track on radio,

a spiritual midnight broadcast or so ... at the time I didnt know who/what the track was, though I knew of ibrahim/ dollarbrand already. Now that I came across your mini-picture-movie I know it and tracked down a copy of his 1987 album "banyana" which contains 2 versions of the track but none of these seem to be the version u have used in the picture.

Can you help and let me knwo on which album it appeared ? Or where you got it dwnld from ? much appreciated

[avlis77]

Ok, no problem. Album: ABDULLAH IBRAHIM, Africa - Tears and Laughter, by ENJA RECORDS, Reccorded March 11, 1979, at Studio Zuckerfabrik, Stuttgart, 3. Ishmael - time of music (13:46)- Abdullah Ibrahim, Talib Qadr, Greg Brown, John Betsch.

[bhdrcool]

great music

[Mat07V]

thanks for presenting this to me unknown version

[rocsil]

A very, very nice pictures and music

Congratulations

Thank you for posting this marvellous video.

[jibrilia]

thank you.I'm french.I knew this play but I never thought find it here!!! hamdullah. there is another version, with zikr. But thank you for share it!

[OomSeamus]

Very nice and relaxing.

[jarkkkoo]

thank you