Beautiful Arabic Byzantine Chant

I recorded this at St George's Antiochian Orthodox Church in London. They do the service all in Arabic with bits of English & Greek. This chanter was incredible, he sang this right before Holy Communion.

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• Arabic
• Orthodox
• Byzantine
• Chant
• Antiochian
• Church
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[tomasrubeck221]

This is absolutely fantastic mate. Really nice. What sort of microphone setup did you use for it? I'm looking to capture a recording similar to this...

[msac4]

Thanks for listening, I'm glad you like it! I actually just used my MP3 player's mic(a Creative Zen), so it's not the best quality really. There are a lot of mics out there, so I don't really know what to recommend for you. Perhaps something that records in stereo

[friendlygogo]

Thanks for uploading !

but are you sure they do the service in greek ? cause Egyptians usually have it in Arabic and Coptic (which is very similar to the Greek language)

[msac4]

Hey, thanks for listening! For most of the service it was Arabic, not Greek. I'm not sure whether it was technically Coptic or Greek( I've heard the Coptics use something that is essentially Greek language), but either way, I understood the parts they did in Greek.

[palomamorena2000]

Beautiful Arabic Voice .... so Amazing

[acerb45666555]

very nice!

[2704443]

@KCmasterpiece2 I'm not debating with anyone and I'm not the one name-calling. I just threw a few facts out there. As for violence done in the past under the name of Christianity it was wrong and Jesus would have condemned such acts done in his name. Muhommad however encouraged such acts by his followers. It should also be noted that the Crusades were started when a muslim decided to burn down the holiest church in Christianity and the Spanish were reclaiming what had been taken from them.

[spellmaker92xD]

wonderfull

[BayAreaOrBust]

I'm so mad Byzantine fell to the Ottomans, because it was such a beautiful empire

[ashfiyeh]

@KCmasterpiece2 so we are not affraid but we didnt reply to these actions cuz all we want is civilization and understanding between us nway what ur sayin is nice but its not the reality of the majority of muslims in the world look whats happening in egypt and iraq look how they are distroying our churches and killing us so plz stop lying to urself

[ashfiyeh]

@KCmasterpiece2 what ur sayin is nice but its not the reality! when some asshole made jokes about the prophet 2 or 3 years ago we all agreed that its wrong and he should be punished but the reaction of our muslims brothers in lebnanon was destruction of churches and christian cities and we had nothin to do with it.all of our history is based on wars in lebanon and we are the most aggressive warriors all arabs tried to destroy us and couldnt with all their numbers

[KCmasterpiece2]

@gsmio even then it is frowned upon by Allah, as you have killed one of his sons or daughters. This is a teaching of Outer Jihad: the lesson to defend yourself, which Muslim fundamentalists have unfortunately construed to mean attack the United States. It means: If someone is threatening you, if someone is trying to kill you, then, by all means defend yourself.

[KCmasterpiece2]

@2704443 I will touch off with this last statement. I refuse to continue an argument with such an ignoramus as you who has failed to refute one single argument that I have brought up, has used no evidence to support their own claims, and is furthermore not even educated in the subject of this debate. All you have is your hatred for Islam, and I am really quite sorry for that. Salaam (which means peace in arabic btw)to you, I hope you will one day be able to extinguish your unneeded hatred.

[KCmasterpiece2]

@2704443 I think it is funny that you tell me that my religion is so filled with hate, and yet, I am the one who is telling you to please be accepting of all religions and you have such hateful things to say of mine. Hatred drives such prejudice as yours.